Quotes
Quotes about Man
Man is the nobler growth our realms supply And souls are ripened in our northern sky.
Thou wilt scarce be a man before thy mother.
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.
But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the Lord hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the Lord hath commanded him to be captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which the Lord commanded thee.
And Nathan said to David, Thou art the Man.
Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.
Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
A man's a man for a' that!
A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might: Guid faith, he maunna fa' that.
The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that.
Man,--whose heaven-erected face The smiles of love adorn,-- Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!
Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine, And all, save the spirit of man, is divine?
Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because he is a man.
The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are.
All that I care to know is that a man is a human being--that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart--the best brain. The superior man ... stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.
The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.
Value of a man depends upon his courage; his veracity depends upon his self-respect and his chastity depends upon his sense of honor.
Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers; and if you make them capable and sensible men, they will make themselves capable and sensible lawyers or physicians.
All the world's a stage, And all the men and merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts....
