Quotes About Man

For those who have only ever read about [John] Calvin, reading the man himself is an invigorating experience.

Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind; Reason, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.

What we say of a thing that has just come in fashion And that which we do with the dead, Is the name of the honestest man in the nation: What more of a man can be said?

Astounded—and indifferent—for he was a man who, in effect, had no 'day before'.

A life like Nixon's is filled with shame and filled with glory. He loved to quote Teddy Roosevelt: "He was a man; sometimes right, sometimes wrong, but he was a man." I love that line.

I should like to see any kind of man, distinguishable from a gorilla, that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.

I dare say that I have worked off my fundamental formula on you that the chief end of man is to frame general propositions and that no general proposition is worth a damn.

The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.

I think Barack Obama is an amazing man and president. His legacy is ongoing.

They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery.

He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.

Disobedience is man's original virtue.

A woman's life revolves in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses.

The number of different aspects that the face of a man has assumed may be taken almost as a physiognomical measure of his ... genius.

A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.

The wit of man has devised cruel statutes, And nature oft permits what is by law forbid.

Thy destiny is only that of man, but thy aspirations may be those of a god.

It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul.

The earth yields up her stores, of every ill The instigators; iron, foe to man, And gold, than iron deadlier.

Tis on the living Envy feeds. She silent grows When, after death, man's honor is his guard. So I, when on the pyre consumed I lie, Shall live, for all that's noblest will survive.

It is a most unhappy state to be at a distance with God: man needs no greater infelicity than to be left to himself.

A man who says that men are machines may be a great scientist. A man who says he is a machine is 'depersonalized' in psychiatric jargon.

I am a man now. Pass your hand over my brow. You can feel the place where the brains grow.

Law is good, proper, and essential in its place, but law can save no man, nor can law remake man and society.