Quotes
Quotes about Man
Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts.
The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case, He turns his quid of tobacco, while his eyes blur with the manuscript.
The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilised man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected.
Privacy is the right to be alone--the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized man.
Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others.
Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.
I hold every man a debtor to his profession.
Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.
Progress is The law of life, man is not Man as yet.
A man prepared has half fought the battle. [Sp., Hombre apercebido medio combatido.]
And striving to be Man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.
So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury, and make sharper the contest between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.
I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a bigger body, more awful, more reverent and more free than he has had before.
Those who work most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand least.
Progress is the process whereby the human race is getting rid of whiskers, the veriform appendix and God.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, but the unreasonable man tries to adapt the world to him--therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases.
No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.
As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
If a man owns land, the land owns him.
The prophet's mantle, ere his flight began, Dropt on the world--a sacred gift to man.
This solemn moment of triumph, one of the greatest moments in the history of the world . . . this great hour which rings in a new era . . . and which is going to lift up humanity to a higher plane of existence for all the ages of the future.
There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased, The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured.
But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it.
