Quotes
Quotes about Man
The human body is a machine which winds its own springs.
The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.
A human being is an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of its limbs and senses.
How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation, as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
A man of one book. [Lat., Homo unius libri.]
And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end: and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoundly ignorant.
Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a goode booke, kills reason it selfe.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
"Please, sir, is this Plumfield?" asked a ragged boy of the man who opened the great gate at which the omnibus left him.
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer.
The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul.
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research.
Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara... are as germane to our highly technological, computerized society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at Kennedy airport.
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.
Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.
