Quotes
Quotes about Man
When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.
The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon.âSir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1873.
Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.âIrving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929.
I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.âWestern Union internal memo, 1876.
The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible.âA Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.).
A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.
There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.
Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.
There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.
A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.
A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.
The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through out passions shown; Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.
All this I see; and I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man. But art not thou thyself giddy with the fashion too, that thou hast shifted out of thy tale into telling me of the fashion?
A woman's dress should be like a barbed- wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place. [Lat., Nulla vis humana vel virtus meruisse unquam potuit, ut, quod praescripsit fatalis ordo, non fiat.]
Many things happen between the cup and the lip.
All human things are subject to decay, And when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.
A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little "personal characteristics."
Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs. [Lat., Suus quoque attributus est error: Sed non videmus, manticae quid in tergo est.]
Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities. [Fr., Heureux l'homme quand il n'a pas les defauts de ses qualites.]
Do you wish to find out a person's weak points? Note the failings he has the quickest eye for in others. They may not be the very failings he is himself conscious of; but they will be their next-door neighbors. No man keeps such a jealous lookout as a rival.
