Man Quotes
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Charity may be a very short word, but with its tremendous meaning of pure love, it sums up man's entire relation to God and to his neighbor.
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It is not what a man does that is of final importance, but what he is in what he does. The atmosphere produced by a man, much more than his activities, has the lasting influence.
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Every old man that dies is a library that burns.
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As Man alone, Jesus could not have saved us; As God alone, He would not; Made flesh, He could and did.
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A cunning fellow is man, inventive beyond all expectation, he reaches sometimes evil and sometimes good.
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A young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced in the actions that occur in life, but its discussions start from these and are about these; and, further, since he tends to follow his passions, his study will be vain and unprofitable, because the end that is aimed at is not knowledge but action. And it makes no difference whether he is young in years or youthful in character.
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A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.
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You are wrong, sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death; he should look to this only in his actions, whether what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting like a good or a bad man.
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No man ever wrote more eloquently and luminously [than Heraclitus].
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It is amazing what one ray of sunshine can do for a man!
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I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him.
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Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.
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Love it will not betray you, dismay or enslave you, it will set you free/to be more like the man you were made to be.
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Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.
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Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.
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I discovered several never-failing signs by which one might know when a man wished to take another wife. He would suddenly 'awaken to a sense of his duties'; he would have serious misgiving as to whether the Lord would pardon his neglect in not living up to his privileges; he would become very religious, and would attend to his meetings ... which seemed just then to be very numerous, and in various other ways he would show his anxiety to live up to his religion.
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A reproach can only hurt if it hits the mark. Whoever knows that he does not deserve a reproach can treat it with contempt.
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A man must feel a little bit of fear, even if just to fell pride when he conquers it.
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I'm a man of faith.
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Every man is his own worst enemy.
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The man or the woman in whom resides greater virtue is the higher; neither the loftiness nor the lowliness of a person lies in the body according to the sex, but in the perfection of conduct and virtues.
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The man who loves his job never works a day in his life.
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I love you so much. I love you enough that I want to stay separate from you. You're an extraordinary man, Frank Wright. I could so easily lose myself in your world and never make a world of my own. And where would that leave us? We'd both be bored stupid.
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When man is not properly trained, he is the most savage animal on the face of the globe.
