Quotes
Quotes about Man
There is a Law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.
Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object? -Confucius.
The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care. And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings. . -Buddha.
There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
I can't but say it is an awkward sight To see one's native land receding through The growing waters; it unmans one quite, Especially when life is rather new.
And nobler is a limited command, Given by the love of all your native land, Than a successive title, long and dark, Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's Ark.
To be really cosmopolitan a man must be at home even in his own country. - Thomas W. Higginson,
Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd, As home his footsteps he hath turn'd, From wandering on a foreign strand!
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need never hunger more. But while the loitering idler waits Good luck beside his fire, The bold heart storms at fortune's gates, And conquers its desire.
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow. [Lat., Felix ille tamen corvo quoque rarior albo.]
All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luckâwho keeps right on goingâis the man who is there when the good luck comesâ and is ready to receive it.
Good luck is a lazy man's estimate of a worker's success.
It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky?
All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luckâwho keeps right on goingâis the man who is there when the good luck comesâand is ready to receive it.
The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his snuff-box, is like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his back.
Sofas 'twas half a sin to sit upon, So costly were they; carpets, every stitch Of workmanship so rare, they make you wish You could glide o'er them like a golden fish.
Falsely luxurious, will not man awake?
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
War destroys men, but luxury destroys mankind; at once corrupts the body and the mind.
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury--to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for every one, best for both the body and the mind.
But that he wrought so high the specious tale, As manifested plainly 'twas a lie. [Lat., Se non volea pulir sua scusa tanto, Che la facesse di menzogna rea.]
