Quotes
Quotes about Man
Though love repine, and reason chafe,
There came a voice without reply,--
"'T is man's perdition to be safe
When for the truth he ought to die."
Go where he will, the wise man is at home,
His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.
If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
A man is a bundle of relations, a knot of roots, whose flower and fruitage is the world.
Whoso would be a man must be a non-conformist.
The man in the street does not know a star in the sky.
It is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time.
All mankind love a lover.
A ruddy drop of manly blood
The surging sea outweighs;
The world uncertain comes and goes,
The lover rooted stays.
The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.
I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes.
The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do.
Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.
The wisdom of mankind creeps slowly on,
Subject to every doubt that can retard
Or fling it back upon an earlier time.
Wake, soldier, wake, thy war-horse waits
To bear thee to the battle back;
Thou slumberest at a foeman's gates,--
Thy dog would break thy bivouac;
Thy plume is trailing in the dust
And thy red falchion gathering rust.
The Right Honorable gentlemancaught the Whigs bathing and walked away with their clothes.
What is the question now placed before society with the glib assurance which to me is most astonishing? That question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I, my lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence those new fangled theories.
Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.
A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.
Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of men.
The disappointment of manhood succeeds to the delusion of youth: let us hope that the heritage of old age is not despair.
A public man of light and leading.
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
Everything comes if a man will only wait.
