Quotes
Quotes about Man
How much lies in Laughter: the cipher-key, wherewith we decipher the whole man.
A gentleman is often seen, but very seldom heard to laugh.
Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance. Lesse at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest Thy person share, and the conceit advance.
For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres. [Lat., Discit enim citius, meminitque libentius ilud Quod quis deridet, quam quod probat et veneratur.]
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that transforming laughter without which no hint of the ultimate reality of the opposites can be faintly intuited.
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they might of been.
A man isn't poor if he can still laugh.
no man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression.
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully; Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers.
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui Bono, from his having first introduced into judicial proceedings the argument, "What end or object could the party have had in the act with which he is accused."
A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins, justice ends?
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sureâthat is all that agnosticism means.
This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.
Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.
The reason there is so little crime in Germany is that it's against the law.
For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.
America is a country where, thanks to Congress, there are 40 million laws to enforce 10 commandments.
The law is a strange thing. It makes a man swear to tell the truth, and every time he shows signs of doing so, some lawyer objects.
Men would be great criminals did they need as many laws as they break.
