Quotes
Quotes about Man
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.
The Frenchman, easy, debonair, and brisk, Give him his lass, his fiddle, and his frisk, Is always happy, reign whoever may, And laughs the sense of mis'ry far away.
One knows in France 685 different ways of preparing eggs. [Fr., On connoit en France 685 manieres differentes d'accommoder les oeufs.]
With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
A man is either free or he is not.
Freedom all solace to man gives: He lives at ease that freely lives.
Here the free spirit of mankind, at length, Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place A limit to the giant's unchained strength, Or curb his swiftness in the forward race?
Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.
He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides.
I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power. He is free again.
A man who has nothing for which he willing to fight; nothing he cares about more than his own personal safety; is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.
What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and where ever it may lead.
Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.
Once freedom lights its beacon in a man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.
A hungry man is not a free man.
A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy.
A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
Iron sharpen iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
Now with my friend I desire not to share or participate, but to engross his sorrows, that, by making them mine own, I may more easily discuss them; for in mine own reason, and within myself, I can command that which I cannot entreat without myself, and within the circle of another.
