Man Quotes
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A little man often cast a long shadow.
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Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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Next to creating a life the finest thing a man can do is save one.
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
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Nothing can resist the will of man when he knows what is true and wills what is good.
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
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The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
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No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.
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The state of mind which enables a man to do work of this kind is akin to that of the religious worshiper or the lover; the daily effort comes from no deliberate intention or program, but straight from the heart.
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Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
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Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
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After marriage, the other man's wife looks more beautiful.
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Pride and excess bring disaster for man.
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The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief, sometimes like a Siren, sometimes like a Fury.
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No man ever got lost on a straight road.
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A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.
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The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.
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Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.
