Quotes
Quotes about Man
There was once, in a remote part of the East, a man who was altogether void of knowledge and experience, yet presumed to call himself a physician.
We know to tell many fictions like to truths, and we know, when we will, to speak what is true.
Both potter is jealous of potter and craftsman of craftsman; and poor man has a grudge against poor man, and poet against poet.
For full indeed is earth of woes, and full the sea; and in the day as well as night diseases unbidden haunt mankind, silently bearing ills to men, for all-wise Zeus hath taken from them their voice. So utterly impossible is it to escape the will of Zeus.
Oft hath even a whole city reaped the evil fruit of a bad man.
For himself doth a man work evil in working evils for another.
Badness, look you, you may choose easily in a heap: level is the path, and right near it dwells. But before Virtue the immortal gods have put the sweat of man's brow; and long and steep is the way to it, and rugged at the first.
This man, I say, is most perfect who shall have understood everything for himself, after having devised what may be best afterward and unto the end.
Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy.
Diligence increaseth the fruit of toil. A dilatory man wrestles with losses.
The morn, look you, furthers a man on his road, and furthers him too in his work.
Time as he grows old teaches many lessons.
Success is man's god.
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
There is an ancient saying, famous among men, that thou shouldst not judge fully of a man's life before he dieth, whether it should be called blest or wretched.
Nobody loves life like an old man.
The gifts of a bad man bring no good with them.
Woman is woman's natural ally.
Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.
A woman should be good for everything at home, but abroad good for nothing.
Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.
We are all clever enough at envying a famous man while he is yet alive, and at praising him when he is dead.
Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.
Each man reaps on his own farm.
Immortal gods! how much does one man excel another! What a difference there is between a wise person and a fool!
