Man Quotes
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If the man who observes the myriad stars, and considers that they and their innumerable satellites move in their serene dignity through the heavens, each swinging clear of the other's orbit-if, I say, the man who sees this cannot realise the Creator's attributes without the help of the book of Job, then his view of things is beyond my understanding.
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You can't depend on the kind of folks people think they are - you've got to go by what they do. And I wouldn't give much for a man that some folks hadn't thought was a fool, in his time.
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No man is entirely worthless, he can always serve as a bad example.
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Property should be in a general sense common, but as a general rule private... In well-ordered states, although every man has his own property, some things he will place at the disposal of his friends, while of others he shares the use of them.
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Noble be man, helpful and good!
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A man is as big as the measure of his thinking.
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Neither I nor any other man should, on trial or in way, contrive to avoid death at any cost.
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It is by the path of love, which is charity, that God draws near to man, and man to God. But where charity is not found, God cannot dwell. If, then, we possess charity, we possess God, for "God is Charity".
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It's fine if you want a system that shows a boa constrictor to better advantage than a man.
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Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.
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I always dressed as a man when I was at school. I loved wearing a tie and a shirt, and I was always wearing suits. Annie Lennox was my hero. I was always playing men in high school.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard it with more hatred than if he had never loved it, and his hatred will be in proportion to the strength of his former love.
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That which especially distinguishes a high order of man from a low order of man, that which constitutes human goodness, human nobleness, is surely not the degree of enlightenment with which men pursue their own advantage; but it is self-forgetfulness; it is self-sacrifice; it is the disregard of personal pleasure, personal indulgence, personal advantage, remote or present, because some other line of conduct is more right.
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The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.
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Maryland is such a special place, man... You miss that warm, friendly love. It ain't like that everywhere else in the world.
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When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor, no worthiness.
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Men cannot act before the camera in the presence of death.
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At sunset when you pray to God, say over and over that each man is a brother and that all men are equal.
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I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.
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I never killed a man who didn't need it.
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The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences.
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[On Peter III:] He did not have a bad heart; but a weak man usually has not.
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The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.
