Man Quotes
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I decline to accept the end of man.
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Who is the man who can call from the back door at night: "Here, Champion Alexander of Clane o' Wind-Holme! Here, Champion Alexander of Clane o' Wind-Holme"?
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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A man can no more make a safe use of wealth without reason than he can of a horse without a bridle.
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Let a man (as most men do) rate themselves as the highest Value they can; yet their true Value is no more than it is esteemed by others.
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... no man can be psychologically castrated without his co-operation!
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Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.
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If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions of the soul implying a rational principle, and the function of a good man to be the good and noble performance of these, and if any action is well performed when it is performed in accordance with the appropriate excellence human good turns out to be activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, and if there are more than one virtue, in accordance with the best and most complete.
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The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world.
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Believe me, the hardest thing for a man to give up is that which he really doesn't want, after all.
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There are two things without limit – the stupidity of Man and the mercy of God.
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Every man has a right to be equal with every other man.
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The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.
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A knowledge isn't dangerous. Only the man is dangerous.
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The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.
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A silent man will die in the silence of his foolishness.
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We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
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I feel as a woman of color, I just don't want my art to be owned by a white man.
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No man can teach the Gospel of Jesus Christ under the inspiration of the living God and with power from on high unless he is living it.
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Why do the sacraments exist? They are a means of healing. The sacraments are not a means of discipline, but a help for man on his life’s journey and in the weak moments of his life.
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What is imprisonment to the man who is fearless of death itself?
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It is very doubtful whether man is enough of a political animal to produce a good, sensible, serious and efficient constitution. All the evidence is against it.
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Many a man never fails because he never tries.
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Plants, again, inasmuch as they are without locomotion, present no great variety in their heterogeneous pacts. For, when the functions are but few, few also are the organs required to effect them. ... Animals, however, that not only live but perceive, present a great multiformity of pacts, and this diversity is greater in some animals than in others, being most varied in those to whose share has fallen not mere life but life of high degree. Now such an animal is man.
