Man Quotes
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Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and to impeach their discernment, is the highest effort of moral courage.
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The man who tries to prove his belief superior to the faith of another, does not know the meaning of religion.
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If there were some solitary or feral man, the passions of the soul would be sufficient for him; by them he would be conformed to things in order that he might have knowledge of them. But because man is naturally political and social, there is need for one man to make his conceptions known to others, which is done with speech. So significant speech was needed if men were to live together. Which is why those of different tongues do not easily live together.
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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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The most important thing in a man is not what he knows, but what he is.
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The lot of man-to suffer and die.
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A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.
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If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes.
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A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.
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The true wisdom of man consists in the knowledge of God the creator and Redeemer.
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So holy and so perfect is my love, And I in such a poverty of grace, That I shall think it a most plenteous crop To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps.
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When fear is excessive it can make many a man despair.
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Start with the man in the mirror. Start with yourself. Don't be looking at all the other things. Start with you.
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The man who fears war and squats opposing My words for stour, hath no blood of crimson But is fit only to rot in womanish peace
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The elements were "seeking" each other in rage and confusion, and in the fury of the conflict boastful man was utterly humiliated, sucked down, drowned.
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To all the world he was the man of violence, half animal and half demon; but to her he always remained the little wilful boy of her own girlhood, the child who had clung to her hand. Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
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Wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and blesses which he is loved and blessed by.
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Man is about the same, in the main, whether with despotism, or whether with freedom.
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I live a pretty sedentary life, usually. I'm not an action man at all.
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...It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
