Man Quotes

He was a man take him for all in all I shall not look upon his like again.

William Shakespeare

I teach you beyond Man (superman). Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Man's the bad child of the universe.

James Oppenheim

Does man differ from the other animals? Only in posture. The rest are bent but he is a wild beast who walks upright.

Philemon

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Napoleon

Know then thyself presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.

Man is the measure of all things.

Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels.

Bible

Mark the perfect man and behold the upright.

Bible

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

F. D. Roosevelt

Quit yourselves like men.

Bible

A man after his own heart.

Bible

What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet to me what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not me: no nor woman neidier though by your smiling you seem to say so.

William Shakespeare

Man is a social animal.

Seneca

His life was gentle and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world This was a man!

William Shakespeare

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you But make allowance for their doubting too Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it And - which is more - you'll be a man my son!

Rudyard Kipling

Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!

James Drummond Burns

We arc the miracle of miracles the great inscrutable mystery of God.

Every man is a volume if you know how to read them.

William Ellery Channing

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.

I am made all things to all men.

Bible

The first man is of the earth earthy.

Bible

His tribe were God Almighty's gentlemen.

Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long.

Oliver Goldsmith

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.

William Hazlitt

Man is a piece of the universe made alive.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I decline to accept the end of men... I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice but because he has a soul a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.

William Faulkner

God give us men. A time like this demands Strong minds great hearts true faith and ready hands! Men whom the lust of office does not kill Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy Men who possess opinions and a will Men who love honor men who cannot lie.

Man passes away his name perishes from record and recollection his history is as a tale that is told and his very monument becomes a ruin.

Washington Irving

Cease ye from man whose breath is in his nostrils.

Bible

Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.

Bible

Though I've belted you and flayed you By the livin' Gawd that made you You're a better man than I am Gunga Din.

Rudyard Kipling

Make ye no truce with Adam-zad - the Bear that walks like a man.

Rudyard Kipling

It is easier to know mankind in general than man individually.

La Rochefoucauld

Men in general are but great great children.

Napoleon

There never was such beauty in another man. Nature made him and then broke the mould.

Ariosto

Let each man think himself an act of God. His mind a thought his life a breath of God.

A man's a man for a' that!

James Drummond Burns

Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.

Justice is the very last thing of all wherewith the universe concerns itself. It is equilibrium that absorbs its attention; and what we term justice is truly nothing but this equilibrium transformed, as honey is nothing but a transformation of the sweetness found in the flower. Outside man there is no justice; within him injustice cannot be.

Maurice Maeterlinck

We are not wrong, perhaps, to be heedful of justice in the midst of a universe that heeds not at all; as the bee is not wrong to make honey in a world that itself can make none. But we are wrong to desire an external justice, since we know that it does not exist. Let that which is in us suffice. All is for ever being weighed and judged in our soul. It is we who shall judge ourselves; or rather, our happiness is our judge.

Maurice Maeterlinck

If God had a wife He would be in just as much trouble as any man.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Money can't buy love, but it can buy a woman's attention.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Men can go to hell! Iâ€™ll meet them there.

Ljupka Cvetanova

A woman’s smile will always make a good man’s day.

The modern man has become a machine for survival, which is largely the result of work of chemicals and genetic codes.

Lynne McTaggart

She had the habit of making up virtuous qualities in a man to support her attraction.

O The irony of man, he thinks he's past generation did not repeat the same way of thinking, either intelligently or foolishly.

While a creator does and must worship Man (which means his own highest potentiality; which is his natural self-reverence), he must not make the mistake of thinking that this means the necessity to worship Mankind (as a collective). These are two entirely different conceptions, with entirely - (immensely and diametrically opposed) - different consequences.

Ayn Rand

That man is formed for social life is an observation which, upon our first inquiry, presents itself immediately to our view, and our reason approves that wise and generous principle which actuated the first founders of civil government, an institution which hat its origin in the weakness of individuals, and hath for its end the strength and security of all; and so long as the means of effecting this important end are thoroughly known and religiously attended to government is one of the richest blessings to mankind, and ought to be held in the highest veneration

A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.

Marcus Aurelius

Let the love grow. Your mistake would be to rush it. Never allowing the seeds you've planted to grow, is all you'll be doing. Everything takes time. Nothing blooms overnight. If you want that man to stay in your life you must be the woman in the relationship. Men if you want that woman to stay, you must be the man in the relationship. Nothing just comes to you. If you want it, you have to try and even sacrifice. No pain, no gain. That's life, whether you accept it or not it's going to always stay the same.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

I’m a complicated man, with complicated taste buds.

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

If the financial system has a defect, it is that it reflects and magnifies what we human beings are like. Money amplifies our tendency to overreact, to swing from exuberance when things are going well to deep depression when they go wrong. Booms and busts are products, at root, of our emotional volatility.

And when [Bëor] lay dead, of no wound or grief, but stricken by age, the Eldar saw for the first time the swift waning of the life of Men, and the death of weariness which they knew not in themselves; and they grieved greatly for the loss of their friends. But Bëor at the last had relinquished his life willingly and passed in peace; and the Eldar wondered much at the strange fate of Men, for in all their lore there was no account of it, and its end was hidden from them.

And when he invented his hell, that was his heaven on earth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

... the lofty mind of man can be imprisoned by the artifices of its own making.

E.A. Bucchianeri

It is the man who all his life has been self-convicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.

William Faulkner

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