Quotes
Quotes about Man
There is no real wealth but the labor of man.
A man's best friends are his ten fingers.
Human history is work history. The heroes of the people are work heroes.
Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.
What restricts the use of the word 'lady' among the courteous is that it is intended to set a woman apart from ordinary humanity, and in the working world that is not a help, as women have discovered in many bitter ways.
Any woman could act like a lady, and this behavior was interpreted as being submissive, demure, inhibited...Being a lady in the Western world was like footbinding in China.
A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
If a man owns land, the land owns him.
Morals and manners will rise or decline with our attention to grammar.
To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to my horse--German.
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone. - Ralph Waldo Emerson,
I am the King of Rome, and above grammar. [Lat., Ego sum rex Romanus, et supra grammaticam.]
We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.
It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.
Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it.
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found the time to conquer the world.
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.
