Quotes
Quotes about Man
While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.
A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.
The best way to hold a man is in your arms.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.
And shut the gates of mercy on mankind.
The corn that makes the holy bread By which the soul of man is fed, The holy bread, the food unpriced, Thy everlasting mercy, Christ.
It sounds like stories from the land of spirits, If any man obtain that which he merits, Or any merit that which he obtains.
The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that induces us to admire a fool. [Fr., Du meme fonds dont on neglige un homme de merite l'on sait encore admirer un sot.]
There is a season for man's merit as well as for fruit. [Fr., Le merite des hommes a sa saison aussi bien que les fruits.]
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of th' unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin?
Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than his merit; posterity will regard the merit rather than the man.
What should a man do but be merry? For look you how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father died within's two hours.
And if you can be merry then, I'll say A man may weep upon his wedding day.
Berowne they call him; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal.
The greatest thing in style is to have a command of metaphor.
My studies in Speculative philosophy, metaphysics, and science are all summed up in the image of a mouse called man running in and out of every hole in the Cosmos hunting for the Absolute Cheese.
Is there not A tongue in every star that talks with man, And wooes him to be wise? nor wooes in vain; This dead of midnight is the noon of thought, And wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.
I have never accepted what many people have kindly said, namely that I have inspired the nation. It was the nation and the race dwelling all around the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to give the roar.
Aye. Fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live. At least awhile... And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chanceâ just one chanceâto come back here and tell our enemies that they make take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!!
As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he as a soldier. Other than that, he's a great military man, I want you to know that.
When force is necessary, it must be applied boldly, decisively, and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a manuever, the blow with an agreement.
One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
The march of the human mind is slow.
I love my neighbor as myself, Myself like him too, by his leave, Nor to his pleasure, power or pelf Came I to crouch, as I conceive. Dame Nature doubtless has designed A man the monarch of his mind.
