Quotes
Quotes about Man
To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins. [Fr., Rendre l'homme infame, et le laisser libre, est une absurdite qui peuple nos forets d'assassins.]
When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power. He is free again.
What light is to the eyes--what air is to the lungs--what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
A free man is as jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties.
It behoves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it's natural manure.
A great library contains the diary of the human race.
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.
Life is an uncharted ocean. The cautious mariner must needs take Many soundings ere he conduct his barque to port in safety.
Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers.
The World's a bubble, and the Life of Man less than a span: In his conception wretched, from the womb so to the tomb. Curst from his cradle, and brought up to years with cares and fears. Who then to frail mortality shall trust, But limns the water, or but writes in dust.
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.
The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.
And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.
There must be more to life than having everything. Judy Newman -Maurice Sendak.
Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long.
I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
Cats and monkeysâmonkeys and catsâall human life is there.
I like life. It's something to do. Somewhere on this globe every 10 seconds there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
A tragey means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.
If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself. -Mickey Mantle.
The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
