Quotes
Quotes about Man
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.
Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue But moody and dull melancholy, Kinsman to a grim and comfortless despair, And at her heels a huge infectious troop Of pale distemperatures and foes to life?
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help smiling at, but they are the smiles that make wrinkles and not dimples.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.
It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.
Calamity is man's true touch-stone. - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher,
He went like one that hath been stunn'd, And is of sense forlorn: A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn.
But strong of limb And swift of foot misfortune is, and, far Outstripping all, comes to every land, And there wreaks evil on mankind, which prayers Do afterwards redress.
Rashness brings success to few, misfortune to many. [Lat., Paucis temeritas est bono, multis malo.]
I never knew any many in my life, who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself. [Lat., Nihil infelicius eo, cui nihil unquam evenit adversi, non licuit enim illi se experiri.]
When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man. [Lat., Quemcumque miserum videris, hominem scias.]
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions.
The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.
To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.
To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.
Modesty becomes a young man. [Lat., Adolescentem verecundum esse decet.]
When one remains modest, not after praise but after blame, then is he really so. [Ger., Wenn jemand bescheiden bleibt, nicht beim Lobe, sondern beim Tadel, dann ist er's.]
Can it be That modesty may more betray our sense Than woman's lightness? Having waste ground enough, Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary And pitch our evils there?
