Quotes
Quotes about Man
Children sweeten labours; but they make misfortunes more bitter. They increase the care of life; but they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity of generation is common to beasts; but memory, merit, and noble works, are proper to men. And surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men; which have sought to express the images of their minds, where those of their bodies have failed.
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
The human understanding is no dry light, but receives infusion from the will and affections; which proceed sciences which may be called "sciences as one would." For what a man had rather were true he more readily believes. Therefore he rejects difficult things from impatience of research; sober things, because they narrow hope; the deeper things of nature, from superstition; the light of experience, from arrogance and pride; things not commonly believed, out of deference to the opinion of the vulgar. Numberless in short are the ways, and sometimes imperceptible, in which the affections color and infect the understanding.
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
A man is but what he knows.
The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and regularity in things than it really finds.
Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.
Power concedes nothing without a demand.
You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but also his desires.
My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.
There are many who know many things, yet are lacking in wisdom.
The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the streets, on the roads, and in the markets, instructs the ear of him who studies man more fully than a thousand rules ostentatiously arranged.
The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one? [Lat., Vox populi habet aliquid divinum: nam quomo do aliter tot capita in unum conspirare possint?]
The public! the public! how many fools does it require to make the public? [Fr., Le public! le public! combien faut-il de sots pour faire un public?]
This many-headed monster, Multitude.
The man in the street does not know a star in the sky.
He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for it. [Ger., Wer dem Publicum dient, ist ein armes Thier; Er qualt sich ab, niemand bedankt sich dafur.]
Knowing as "the man in the street" (as we call him as Newmarket) always does, the greatest secrets of kings, and being the confidant of their most hidden thoughts.
No whispered rumours which the many spread can wholly perish.
That miscellaneous collection of a few wise and many foolish individuals, called the public.
It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney?
The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh: but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many have fallen by the edge of the sword: but not so many as have fallen by the tongue. [Ecclesiasticus 28:17 --18].
