Quotes
Quotes about Man
Talk with a man out at a window!--a proper saying!
One man's poison Ivy is another man's spinach.
Never before have so many been taken for so much and left with so little.
The tax collector must love poor people--he's creating so many of them.
We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.
O ye! who teach the ingenious youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain, I pray ye flog them upon all occasions, It mends their morals, never mind the pain.
Seek to delight, that they may mend mankind. And, while they captivate, inform the mind.
Full well they laughed, with counterfeited glee, At all his jokes, for many a joke had he: Full well the busy whisper, circling round, Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd.
The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.
The first duty of a lecturer--to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
Oh! too convincing--dangerously dear-- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear! That weapon of her weakness she can wield, To save, subdue--at once her spear and shield.
She was a good deal shock'd; not shock'd at tears, For women shed and use them at their liking; But there is something when man's eye appears Wet, still more disagreeable and striking.
A stoic of the woods,--a man without a tear.
No radiant pearl, which crested Fortune wears, No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's wars. Not the bright stars which Night's blue arch adorn, Nor rising suns that gild the vernal morn, Shine with such lustre as the tear that flows Down Virtue's manly cheek for others' woes.
It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act according with the dictates of reason.
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution as to warm without heating, to cheer but not inebriate. (Tar Water.)
Abstinence is whereby a man refraineth from any thyng which he may lawfully take.
Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace. Leave gormandizing.
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?
I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people: they go commonly together.
Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colours, that are but skin-deep.
