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Quotes about Man


No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction

Demetrius Phalerens

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

H. G. Wells

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

Chinese Proverb

Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.

Pierre Jean de Bible

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

George Bernard Shaw

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

James Thurber

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Bob Wells

I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.

William Ernest Hocking

No man is ever old enough to know better.

Holbrook Jackson

A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

J. F. Boyse

The three ages of man: youth, middle age, and "You're looking wonderful!"

Dore Schary

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

Oscar Wilde

When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.

Lenore Coffee

No man is ever old enough to know better.

Holbrook Jackson

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man. -Leon Trotsky.

Leon Trotsky

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Jean Rostand

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.

Andre Maurois

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Agatha Christie

The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity. -Helen Rowland.

Helen Rowland

Middle age . . . when a man is at the peak of his yearning power. -Wall Stress Journal.

Wall Stress Journal

A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is. -Arthur Schopenhauer.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Chinese Proverb

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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