Quotes
Quotes about Man
A woman that is like a German clock, Still a-repairing, ever out of frame, And never going aright, being a watch, But being watched that it may still go right!
The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
A good wife is heaven's last, best gift to man, - his gem of many virtues, his casket of jewels; her voice is sweet music, her smiles his brightest day, her kiss the guardian of his innocence, her arms the pale of his safety...
Man's biggest mistake is to believe that he's working for someone else.
Advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all, as they are instruments of ambition. A man that is by no means big enough for the Gazette, may easily creep into the advertisements; by which means we often see an apothecary in the same paper of news with a plenipotentiary, or a running footman with an ambassador.
They consume a considerable quantity of our paper manufacture, employ our artisans in printing, and find business for great numbers of indigent persons.
Hear, Land o' Cakes, and brither Scots, Frae Maidenkirk to Johnie Groat's;- If there's a hole in a' your coats, I rede you tent it: A chield's amang you takin notes, And, faith, he'll prent it.
The liberty of the press is the palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights of an Englishman.
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
Remember, son, many a good story has been ruined by over-verification.
There are many trails up the mountain, but in time they all reach the top.
All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it.
Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away. [Lat., Gaudia non remanent, sed fugitiva volant.]
Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but a man with a warm and friendly heart overflowing blessings, and his beneficence will extend to posterity. -Hung Tzu-Cheng.
There should be many judges, for few will always do the will of few. [It., Bisogna che i giudici siano assai, perche pochi sempre fanno a modo de' pochi.]
If you judge, investigate; if you reign, command. [Lat., Si judicas, cognosce; si regnas, jube.]
Cruel and cold is the judgment of man, Cruel as winter, and cold as the snow; But by-and-by will the deed and the plan Be judged by the motive that lieth below.
Commonly we say a Judgment falls upon a Man for something in him we cannot abide.
For I do not distinguish them by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.
Who comes with Summer to this earth And owes to June her day of birth, With ring of Agate on her hand, Can health, wealth, and long life command.
Woman's success in lifting men out of their way of life nearly resembling that of the beastsâwho merely hunted and fished for food, who found shelter where they could in jungles, in trees, and cavesâwas a civilizing triumph.
Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
Nature's laws affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.
I consider trial by jury as the only anchor yet imagined by man by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
