Quotes
Quotes about Man
So 'ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, at your 'ome in the Soudan;
You're a pore benighted 'eathen but a first-class fightin' man.
A fool there was and he made his prayer
(Even as you and I)
To a rag and a bone and a hank of hair
(We called her the woman who did not care)
But the fool he called her his lady fair.
Oh the road to Mandalay
Where the flyin'-fishes play
An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer
China 'crost the Bay!
Ship me somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the worst,
Where there ar'n't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst.
Take up the White Man's burden.
And a woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
? John Bartlett, compThere was ease in Casey's manner as he stept into his place,
There was pride in Casey's bearing and a smile on Casey's face,
And when responding to the cheers he lightly doft his hat,
No stranger in the crowd could doubt, 't was Casey at the bat.
He is a fool who thinks by force or skill
To turn the current of a woman's will.
I preached as never sure to preach again,
And as a dying man to dying men.
And there's a lust in man no charm can tame
Of loudly publishing our neighbour's shame;
On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly,
While virtuous actions are but born and die.
That man may last, but never lives,
Who much receives, but nothing gives;
Whom none can love, whom none can thank,--
Creation's blot, creation's blank.
In this awfully stupendous manner, at which Reason stands aghast, and Faith herself is half confounded, was the grace of God to man at length manifested.
Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise,
The queen of the world and child of the skies!
Thy genius commands thee; with rapture behold,
While ages on ages thy splendors unfold.
They [the blacks] had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.
Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph.
We are Republicans, and don't propose to leave our party and identify ourselves with the party whose antecedents have been Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion.
Well, General, we have not had many dead cavalrymen lying about lately.
But whether on the scaffold high
Or in the battle's van,
The fittest place where man can die
Is where he dies for man!
Babylon in all its desolation is a sight not so awful as that of the human mind in ruins.
"Be of good comfort, Master Ridley," Latimer cried at the crackling of the flames. "Play the man! We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out."
When Adam dolve, and Eve span,
Who was then the gentleman?
Now bething the, gentilman,
How Adam dalf, and Eve span.
Use three Physicians,--
Still-first Dr. Quiet;
Next Dr. Mery-man,
And Dr. Dyet.
Our days begin with trouble here,
Our life is but a span,
And cruel death is always near,
So frail a thing is man.
Note 9.The same proverb existed in German:--
So Adam reutte, und Eva span,
Wer war da ein eddelman?
Agricola: Proverbs, No. 254.
