Quotes
Quotes about Man
The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body.
An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
As I was going up the stairI met a man who wasn't thereHe wasn't there again todayI wish, I wish he'd stay away. - The Psychoed.
Go, call a coach, and let a coach be called; And let the man who calleth be the caller; And in the calling, let him nothing call, But coach! coach! coach! O for a coach, ye gods!
Nay, 'tis in a manner done already; For many carriages he hath dispatched To the seaside, and put his cause and quarrel To the disposing of the cardinal; With whom yourself, myself, and other lords, If you think meet, this afternoon will post To consummate this business happily.
The good man is the friend of all living things.
Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.
I came to Gotham, where I saw many who were fools, if not all. [Lat., Veni Gotham, ubi multos, Si non omnes, vidi stultos.]
Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.
The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.
Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream. - The Man in the Water, 1994.
The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie. - The Silence of the Sea.
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet. - Lacon, 1825.
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. - The Labyrinth of Solitude, 1950.
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
A wife is essential to great longevity; she is the receptacle of half a man's cares, and two-thirds of his ill-humor.
There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.
Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.
The fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a permanent loser.
A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.
No man can lose what he never had.
One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's privacy.
When love once pleads admission to our hearts, (In spite of all the virtue we can boast), The woman that deliberates is lost.
How many time do I love, again? Tell me how many beads there are In a silver chain Of evening rain Unravelled from the trembling main And threading the eye of a yellow star:-- So many time do I love again.
