Quotes
Quotes about Man
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more that you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.
Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal likings.
Mankind makes living contradictory.
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. -Samuel Ullman.
The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
All animals except man know that the ultimate point of life is to enjoy it. -Samuel Butler.
Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time. -Chinese proverb.
Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.
The truest process of human kind and human life is to ultimatly conquer your fears and live a life worth dyeing for. Because in the end, before that final moment, is it not the moments of your life that flash before you?
The book of life begins with a man and a woman in a garden, and ends with Revelations.
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
We are coming to understand health not as the absence of disease, but rather as the process by which individuals maintain their sense of coherence (i.e. sense that life is comprehensible, manageable, and meaningful) and ability to function in the face of changes in themselves and their relationships with their environment. -Aaron Antonovsky.
The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest. .
That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
A light is still a light-even though the blind man cannot see it.
Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.
Very whitely still The lilies of our lives may reassure Their blossoms from their roots, accessible Alone to heavenly dews that drop not fewer; Growing straight out of man's reach, on the hill. God only, who made us rich, can make us poor.
"Thou wert not, Solomon! in all thy glory Array'd," the lilies cry, "in robes like ours; How vain your grandeur! Ah, how transitory Are human flowers!"
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it's dark. -Zen saying.
This is your devoted friend, sir, the manifold linguist and the armipotent soldier.
But to the purpose--for we cite our faults That they may hold excused our lawless lives; And partly, seeing you are beautified With goodly shape, and by your own report A linguist, and a man of such perfection As we do in our quality much want--
