Man Quotes
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When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity.
Immanuel Kant
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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
Ezra Pound
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I am terribly glad to be alive; and when I have wit enough to think about it, terribly proud to be a man and an American, with all the rights and privileges that those words connote; and most of all I am humble before the responsibilities that are also mine. For no right comes without a responsibility, and being born luckier than most of the world's millions, I am also born more obligated.
Wallace Stegner
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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.
Thomas Hobbes
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The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence and educational advantages; the question is what he will do with the things he has. The moment a young man ceases to dream or to bemoan his lack of opportunities and resolutely looks his conditions in the face, and resolves to change them, he lays the corner-stone of a solid and honorable success.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
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What a glorious spectacle is that of the labor of man upon the earth! It includes everything in it that is glorious. Look around and tell me what you see, that is worth seeing, that is not the work of your hands and the hands of your fellows;--the multitudes of all ages.
Alfred William Howitt
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To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last.
Jane Austen
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A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.
George Eliot
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You're not a man, you're a mushroom!
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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This savagery of materialism, the scent of blood rousing ferocious instincts, obtrudes the age of the brute into the age of man. Democratic freedom has not yet cuts its wisdom teeth...
Ezra Heywood
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So long as you believe that man is essentially evil in nature, and a more vicious doctrine was never promulgated, it follows that he is often going to need to have his ears slapped back, and who should do this but the clergy?
Anne Roe
