What Is Man Quotes

Even the wisest man grows tense With some sort of violence Before he can accomplish fate, Know his work or choose his mate. Poet and sculptor, do the work, Nor let the modish painter shirk

Grant me an old man's frenzy, Myself must I remake Till I am Timon and Lear Or that William Blake Who beat upon the wall Till Truth obeyed his call.

Everyone in this life is defeated but a man, if he be a man, is not defeated.

The man that dares traduce, because he can with safety to himself, is not a man.

Noble men in the quiet of morning hear Indians singing the continent's violent requiem.

I venture to say that every man who is not presumably incapacitated by some consideration of personal unfitness or of political danger is morally entitled to come within the pale of the Constitution.

any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man

The right man can make a good job out of any job.

A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.

The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and their griefs.

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

There's place and means for every man alive.

A good man's fortune may grow out at heels.

Every man has business and desire, Such as it is.

Every true man's apparel fits your thief.

There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old.

A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.

Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.

I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving.

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.

Pray, do not mock me. I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less; And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind.

Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use; or, if sterling, may require good management to make it serve the purposes of sense or happiness.

Every man has obligations which belong to his station. Duties extend beyond obligations, and direct the affections, desires, and intentions, as well as the actions.

One fact must be familiar to all those who have any experience of human nature - a sincerely religious man is often an exceedingly bad man.

Fear is a cloak which old men huddle about their love, as if to keep it warm.

I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for.

I know my girlfriend is free-spirited. I know she's so charming that it's disarming. I get it. And I know that every man is going to fall in love with her.

Every woman must admit, and every man with as much sense as a woman, that it's very hard to make a home for any man if he's always in it.

Never trust a man who has not a single redeeming vice.

The nature of man is evil; what is good in him is artificial.

The true man of the past waited upon Heaven when dealing with people and did not wait upon people when dealing with Heaven.

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

If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

The Bible is clear - God's definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.

It's good to let God pick a man for you. We don't do so well when we pick them ourselves. They end up lipsticks in a drawer, all those wrong colors you thought looked so good in the package.

If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.

The amount of time we give to something indicates it's importance to us.

When it comes to the heart and soul, only the Bible can bring true and lasting changes.

But wherever there is man, there must be some sort of route

Approach each new day as a new opportunity to be the person you aspire to be.

A man thinks all dust stays outdoors.

I am perhaps more proud of having helped to redeem the character of the cave-man than of any other single achievement of mine in the field of anthropology.

Man is a social animal.

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.

War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.

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

Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.