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Quotes about Man


"There are strings," said Mr. Tappertit, ". . . in the human heart that had better not be wibrated."

Charles Dickens

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment. •Bible Do not judge by appearances; a rich heart may be under a poor coat. •Gaelic Proverb There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect. •Gilbert K. Chesterton If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart. •Arabian Proverb The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart. •Benjamin Franklin See with your mind, hear with your heart. •Kurdish Proverb Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together. •David Hare Were it not for hope the heart would break.

Fitz-Greene Bible

It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters. •Evander Holyfield The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers. •Deepak Chopra Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft. •Ovid Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. •Ralph Waldo Emerson A heart in love with beauty never grows old. •Turkish Proverb To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

Evander Holyfield

Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it. -Jean Jacques Rousseau.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart. Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue. -Theodore Parker.

Theodore Parker

Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart. -Johann Georg Zimmermann.

Johann Georg Zimmermann

It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes are within our power . . . a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him. -Alexandr Solzhenitsyn.

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven. -Martin Luther.

Martin Luther

There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man. -Jean Giraudoux.

Jean Giraudoux

The great man is he that does not lose his child's heart. -Menicus.

Antonio Menicus

To live and let live, without clamour for distinction or recognition; . . . to write truth first on the tablet of one's own heart—this is the sanity and perfection of living, and my human ideal. -Mary Baker Eddy.

Mary Baker Eddy

Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he/she has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more - more unseen forms become manifest to her. Thanks to Hetty Watters -Jalal-Uddin Rumi.

Jalal-uddin Rumi

The great man is he that does not lose his child's heart. -Menius.

John Menius

The great man is he who has not lost his child's heart. -Mecius.

Zelda Mecius

True creativity quite simply starts with balancing your emotions and activating the power of the heart. Through practicing emotional management from the heart, you tap into the highest form of creativity possible-recreating your perceptions of reality. -Doc Childre.

Doc Childre

The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or piece of prose he or she really loves...is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital. When two of God's children join hands and hearts, all of Heaven rejoices. Thanks to a subscriber - Pamela Watkins -George Steiner.

George Steiner

There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. -Washington Irving.

Washington Irving

Man becomes man only by the intelligence, but he is man only by the heart. -Henri Frederic Amiel.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he know that every day is Doomsday. -Ralph Waldo Emerson:.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:

Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss. -Black Elk.

Black Elk

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist. Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) -Louis Nizer.

Louis Nizer

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise man is in his heart. -Benjamin Franklin.

Benjamin Franklin

Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. -Sir Winston Churchill.

Sir Winston Churchill

Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.

Antonia S. Byatt

In my Father's house are many mansion: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

Saint Aurelius Bible

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