What Is Man Quotes
When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel.
Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for military purposes, they can wipe out our entire civilization.
Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.
In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.
I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog.
A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.
There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.
The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.
Don't you want to take a leap of faith? Or become an old man, filled with regret, waiting to die alone!
To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
If you bleed Black Label and you're going to be a man, you gotta get up there and do what you gotta do every day, relentless and as tired as you can be.
The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven.
Estimated from a wife's experience, the average man spends fully one-quarter of his life in looking for his shoes.
A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; but to hunger and thirst after it is often merely a symptom of spiritual diabetes.
I think that feminists have definitely underestimated the role that women have had historically. I think I would be insecure if I were to be a man; there's so much pressure on you.
Soft, sweet things with a lot of fancy dressing - that's what a little boy loves to eat and a grown man prefers to marry.
Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.
Every man has his excuses, and the more vile the man becomes, the more touching the story has to be. What is my story now, I wonder?
I'm fat, but I'm thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there's a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there's a statue inside every block of stone?
There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself.
Do not be merciful, but be just, for mercy is bestowed upon the guilty criminal, while Justice is all that the innocent man requires.
To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward.
It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits
The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world.
In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked.
There are two things every man in America thinks he can do: work a grill and coach football.
This pleased Onyango, for to him knowledge was the source of all the white man's power, and he wanted to make sure that his son was as educated as any white man.
What is a good man but a bad man's teacher? What is a bad man but a good man's job? If you do not remember this, You will get lost, No matter how intelligent you are. It is the great secret.
People are so afraid to say the word "comic". It makes you think of a grown man with pimples, a ponytail and a big belly. Change it to "graphic novel" and that disappears.
My old man claimed that the more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels.
Worship is at heart a person offered to God, claiming no rights, making no more selfish demands than a dead man does, but living fully, richly and wholly to God and by His power.