Quotes About Man

It takes a man to make a devil; and the fittest man for such a purpose is a snarling, waspish, red-hot, fiery creditor.

The present stage redefines the possibilities of man and nature in accordance with the new means available for their realization.

Lusts are like agues; the fit is not always on, and yet the man is not rid of his disease; and some men's lusts, like some agues, have not such quick returns as others.

There are doubts, sir, which, if man have them, it is not man that can solve them.

...in certain moods, no man can weigh this world without throwing in something, somehow like Original Sin, to strike the uneven balance.

Appalling is the soul of a man! Better might one be pushed off into the material spaces beyond the uttermost orbit of our sun, than once feel himself fairly afloat in himself.

Inhibition is no good provider for a needy man, Inhibition, which does men great harm and great good. Inhibition attaches to poverty, boldness to wealth.

A man with a long history of racial discrimination should never run our government.

Oall the creatures that creep and breathe on earth, there is none more wretched than man.

Never to be cast away are the gifts of the gods, magnificent, which they give of their own will, no man could have them for wanting them.

To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe.

Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.

The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger.

A knowledge of mankind and of things that surround us gives us that second education which proves far move valuable than our first because it alone turns out a truly accomplished man.

The man who thinks with Horace thinks divine.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

When there's only God to blame, we forgive him. When it's our fellow man, we destroy him.

That man, the king of vacations... the king of vacations in his ranch said nothing but, you have to flee, and didn't say how... that cowboy, the cowboy mentality.

"You like music, Mr. Gurgeh?" Hamin asked, leaning over to the man. Gurgeh nodded. "Well, a little does no harm."

I'm looking for Commander James Bond, not an overgrown stunt man. [on meeting Sean Connery]

Every handsome man had a flaw. It was just her luck that in William's case that flaw was lunacy.

Your date appears to be hysterical," Rene told me. "You think I should slap some man into him?

Kate Daniels, trained negotiator. When in possession of some valuable information, give it away to the first sexy man you see with no guarantee of return.

If by religion we mean a belief in humanity rather than the gods, an effort to make man better and a little happier, then yes, I'm very religious.