Quotes
Quotes about Man
The fairest action of our human life Is scorning to revenge an injury; For who forgives without a further strife, His adversary's heart to him doth tie: And 'tis a firmer conquest, truly said, To win the heart than overthrow the head.
Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And ev'n with Paradise devise the snake; For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blackened--Man's forgiveness give and take!
To love is human, it is also human to forgive. [Lat., Humanum amare est, humanum autem ignoscere est.]
To err is human, to forgive, divine.
Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine.
To err is human; to forget, divine.
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the full value of time and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. -Jean Paul Richter.
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself. -Ausonius.
To err is human; to forgive, divine. -Alexander Pope.
A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man. See our article: Forgiveness - A Real Stress Buster -Ed Howe.
To err is human; to forgive, divine.
A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.
That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune hath somewhat the nature of a woman, that if she be too much wooed she is the farther off."
Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune: for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.
Fortune, the great commandress of the world, Hath divers ways to advance her followers: To some she gives honor without deserving; To other some, deserving without honor; Some wit, some wealth,--and some, wit without wealth; Some wealth without wit; some nor wit nor wealth.
It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life. [Lat., Vitam regit fortuna, non sapientia.]
Many things happen between the cup and the upper lip. [Lat., Multa intersunt calicem et labrum summum.]
Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.
The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. [Ger., Ein tag der Gunst ist wie ein Tag der Ernte, Man muss geschaftig sein sobald sie reift.]
Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.
A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
