Quotes
Quotes about Man
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
To appreciate heaven well 'Tis good for a man to have some fifteen minutes of hell.
Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed The woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed.
Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God.
You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?
The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell dwells within myself.
We spirits have just such natures We had for all the world, when human creatures; And, therefore, I, that was an actress here, Play all my tricks in hell, a goblin there.
A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes.
To the man who himself strives earnestly, God also lends a helping hand.
The foolish ofttimes teach the wise: I strain too much this string of life, belike, Meaning to make such music as shall save. Mine eyes are dim now that they see the truth, My strength is waned now that my need is most; Would that I had such help as man must have, For I shall die, whose life was all men's hope.
Light is the task when many share the toil.
Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help?
In man's most dark extremity Oft succor dawns from Heaven.
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.
The hero is the world-man, in whose heart One passion stands for all, the most indulged.
As the master so the valet. (Like master, like man.) [Fr., Fel maltre, tel valet.]
Ferryman ho! In the night so black Hark to the clank of iron; 'Tis heroes of the Yser, 'Tis sweethearts of glory, 'Tis lads who are unafraid! Ferryman ho!
Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.
If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?
Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally among Mankind.
A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his valet. [Fr., Il faut etre bien heros pour l'etre aux yeux de son valet-de-chambre.]
No man is a hero to his valet. [Fr., Il n'y a pas de grand homme pour son valet-de-chambre.]
