Quotes About Man

Life is a disease; and the only difference between on man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.

You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.

Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.

There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.

I am very subtle; but Man is deeper in his thought than I am. The woman knows that there is no such thing as nothing: the man knows that there is no such day as tomorrow. I do well to worship them.

Who hath no faith to man, to God hath none.

I believe that ideal character in its perfection is potentially in every man who is born into the world.

What faith in man must in our new world beat, Thinking how once he saw before his face The west and all the host of stars retreat Into the silent infinite of space!

A child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts." —WORDSWORTH.

In the love of a brave and faithful man there is always a strain of maternal tenderness; he gives out again those beams of protecting fondness which were shed on him as he lay on his mother's knee.

autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes called 'Memoirs.

When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book.

... we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance.

Shewa good man his errour and he turnes it to a vertue, but an ill, it doubles his fault.

Vertue flies from the heart of a Mercenary man.

Exalted Manna, gladness of the best, Heaven in ordinary, man well drest.

God's breath in man returning to his birth, The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage.

O what a sight were Man, if his attires Did alter with his minde; And like a dolphins skinne, his clothes combin'd With his desires!

A man well mounted is ever Cholerick.

For the atom's soul is nothing but energy. Spirit blazes in the dullest of clay. The life of every woman or man - the heart of it - is pure and holy joy.

As Christ is the blossom of humanity, so the blossom of every man is Christ perfected in him.

For the greatest fool and rascal in creation there is yet a worse condition; and that is, not to know it, but to think himself a respectable man.

God is the God of the animals in a far lovelier way, I suspect, than many of us dare to think, but he will not be the God of a man by making a good beast of him.

It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well.