Quotes
Quotes about Man
From thee all human actions take their springs, The rise of empires, and the fall of kings.
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
An honest God is the noblest work of man.
The best way to know God is to love many things.
Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn in the world.
God made the country and man made the town.
God never made His work for man to mend.
God is the brave man's hope, and not the coward's excuse.
What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?
Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.
There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Khatmandu, There's a little marble cross below the town, There's a broken-hearted woman tends the grave of Mad Carew, And the yellow god forever gazes down.
You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns--you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold!
The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest; The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The last corruption of degenerate man.
I see, the jewel best enamelled Will lose his beauty; yet the gold bides still That others touch, and often touching will Wear gold; and no man that hath a name, By falsehood and corruption doth it shame.
The man who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself.
The man who works for the gold in the job rather than for the money in the pay envelope, is the fellow who gets on.
We learn so many things from golf- how to suffer, for instance.
It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's almost a law.
A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way. [Ger., Ein guter Mensch, in seinem dunkeln Drange, Ist sich des rechten Weges sohl bewusst.]
On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time.
There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.
(Salerio:) . . . if my gossip Report be an honest woman of her word. (Solanio:) I would she were as lying a gossip in that as ever knapped ginger or made her neighbors believe she wept for the death of a third husband.
There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.
