Quotes About Man

God makes and apparel shapes: but it's money that finishes the man.

There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man's shirt on its morning run.

If you are trying to slip out without waking a sleeping man, zips are a nightmare. Haven't you ever tried to creep out of the room unnoticed the following morning? I've done that many times.

Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.

I don't mind praying to the Eternal Father, but I must be the only man in the country afflicted with an eternal mother.

A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn't like a mother's womb. It won't bleed. It won't stretch to make room for you.

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.

The trouble with marriage is that, while every woman is at heart a mother, every man is at heart a bachelor.

A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.

People need to be cautious because anything built by man can be destroyed by Mother Nature.

Go take the mother's soul, and learn three truths: Learn What dwells in man, What is not given to man , and What men live by . When thou hast learnt these things, thou shalt return to heaven.

Listen - man is a child of Nature. When he turns against his mother - he's done! He may not find out about it right away, but he will.

In the beginning Man created God: and in the image of Man created he him.

O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, "Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!

Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.

No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth.

Superstition is great enemy of man but bigotry is worse.

William Goldman, Marathon Man

On television I feel like a man playing piano in a brothel; every now and again he solaces himself by playing 'Abide with Me' in the hope of edifying both the clients and the inmates

The blues ain't nothing but a good man feelin' bad.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

I got rhythm, I got music, I got my man- Who could ask for anything more?

And so they played some of the world's loveliest piano music - the exiled homesick girl, the humiliated, tired old man. Not properly. Better than that.

Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.