Quotes
Quotes about Man
All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told; Many a man his life hath sold; But my outside to behold.
The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may learn the little value of fortune by the persons on whom Heaven is pleased to bestow it.
No good man ever became suddenly rich. [Lat., Repente dives nemo factus est bonus.]
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone.
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
A learned man has always wealth in himself.
A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel.
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broken in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
The problem with being best man at a wedding is that you never get a chance to prove it.
I'd like to dispel the myth that when you put a wedding ring on a woman, her brain stops.
Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room.
There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence.
There is a method in man's wickedness, It grows up by degrees.
All wickedness is but little to the wickedness of a woman.
The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.
One man's wickedness may easily become all men's curse.
Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.
The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.
There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.
