Quotes
Quotes about Man
There are so many hungry people that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
When a man brings his wife flowers for no reason, there's a reason.
My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.
Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary; I humbly pray to Heaven above that I love the man I marry.
Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of itâor, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.
When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, and what he is really in himself, as there is between a VIzor and a Face.
For neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone, By his permissive will, through heav'n and earth.
He was a man Who stole the livery of the court of Heaven To serve the devil in.
O, what may man within him hide, Though angel on the outward side!
A man I knew who lived upon a smile, And well it fed him; he look'd plump and fair, While rankest venom foam'd through every vein.
Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when a man has only one idea.
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
Man may be defined as the animal that can say "I," that can be aware of himself as a separate entity.
Your identity and your success go hand in hand. Many people sacrifice their identities by not doing what they really want to do. And that's why they're not successful.
A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same.
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man.
A man who has no office to go to--I don't care who he is--is a trial of which you can have no conception.
Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence. [Lat., Utque alios industria, ita hunc ignavia ad vamam protulat.]
Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.
He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
A man's real worth is determined by what he does when he has nothing to do.
Often the cock-loft is empty, in those whom nature hath built many stories high.
The living man who does not learn, is dark, dark, like one walking in the night.
