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Quotes About Man

Evolution did not intend trees to grow singly. Far more than ourselves they are social creatures, and no more natural as isolated specimens than man is as a marooned sailor or hermit.
~ John Fowles
Music's golden tongue Flatter'd to tears this aged man and poor.
~ John Keats
Only in very recent times has the average man been a source of savings.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.
~ John Lancaster Spalding
It came in a vision - a man appeared on a flaming pie and said unto them, 'From this day forward you are Beatles with an A.' Thank you Mister Man, they said, thanking him.
~ John Lennon
The spirit of man, which God inspired, cannot together perish with this corporeal clod.
~ John Milton
The whole technological revolution and evolution gives man tremendous capabilities for good, and it also gives individuals tremendous capability to carry out what result in lethal action.
~ John O. Brennan
Science studies the relations of things to each other: but art studies only their relations to man.
~ John Ruskin
Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. I don't think it is the role of the state to define what marriage is.
~ John Sentamu
New York is a different breed than any other city there is. Media can be very hard on you at times, but [Patrick Ewing] did handle it like a man. He was able to prosper in that whole atmosphere.
~ John Starks
I think there must have been some other girl printed somewhere in his heart, for he was a man of love and his wife was not a woman to show her feelings.
~ John Steinbeck
He said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god.
~ John Steinbeck
The ideal client is the very wealthy man in very great trouble.
~ John Sterling
A man, as a man, could arrive at all the dignity that a man was capable of obtaining or receiving; but it needed a God to raise him to the dignity of a God.
~ John Taylor
I was always a character actor, basically, that sometimes looks like a leading man.
~ John Travolta
Never play cards with a man named Doc, and never eat at a place called Mom's.
~ John O'Hara
The cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free man acknowledges. It is the only security that free man desires.
~ Mirabeau B. Lamar
A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.
~ G. Gordon Liddy
The Hank Williams Syndrome: Come to Nashville, write some good songs, cut some hit records, make money, take all the drugs you can and drink all you can, become a wild man and all of a sudden die.
~ Waylon Jennings
Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
~ Ayn Rand
The Olympics can no more lose money than a man can have a baby.
~ Jean Drapeau
Money, thou bane of bliss, and source of woe, Whence cam'st thou, that thou art so fresh and fine? I know thy parentage is base and low: Man found thee poor and dirty in a mine.
~ George Herbert
Money's the solution, curing all the ails of the nation. But what about the hearts of man?
~ Ray Davies
What love is not torment when a man knows not how to love himself? Talk not of drowning, but attaining your heart's desire by action: Put money in thy purse.
~ Christopher Moore