Man Quotes
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My definition of Man is, a Cooking Animal. The beasts have memory, judgement, and all the faculties and passions of our mind, in a certain degree; but no beast is a cook....Man alone can dress a good dish; and every man whatever is more or less a cook, in seasoning what he himself eats.
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Nothing degrades a man do more than the allowed stoop so low as to hate someone.
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If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.
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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make. He can choose the fair and open path, the path which sound ethics, sound democracy, and the common law prescribe, or choose the secret way by which he can get the better of his fellow man.
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No one can ride on the back of a man unless it is bent.
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The appropriate form of address between man and man ought to be, not monsieur, sir, but fellow sufferer, compagnon de miseres.
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The scent of Sloth tempts a smug man.
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When I want any, good head work done; I always choose a man, if possible with a long nose.
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What is god, what is not god, what is between man and god, who shall say?
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Nothing is so important to man as his own state; nothing is so formidable to him as eternity. And thus it is unnatural that thereshould be men indifferent to the loss of their existence and to the perils of everlasting suffering.
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Each man has his own batch of poems.
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Examinations, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.
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The man who is master of himself drinks gravely and wisely.
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In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless.
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The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
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It is necessary that every man have at least somewhere to go. For there are times when one absolutely must go at least somewhere!
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So much is man the slave of his heart that he will shut his eyes to what does not please him and believe all that he hopes.
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Man can create nothing which he does not first conceive in THOUGHT.
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The only man I knew who could make a curse sound like a caress.
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The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.
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Whenever I see an erring man, I say to myself I have also erred; when I see a lustful man I say to myself, so was I once; and in this way I feel kinship with everyone in the world and feel that I cannot be happy without the humblest of us being happy.
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The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements.
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Assist a man in raising a burden; but do not assist him in laying it down.
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For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or activity, the good and the well is thought to reside in the function, so would it seem to be for man, if he has a function.
