Quotes
Quotes about Man
Amongst so many borrowed things, I am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.
Night's black mantle covers all alike.
Much like the French (or like ourselves, their apes),
Who with strange habit do disguise their shapes;
Who loving novels, full of affectation,
Receive the manners of each other nation.
To man the earth seems altogether
No more a mother, but a step-dame rather.
There is no theam more plentifull to scan
Than is the glorious goodly frame of man.
The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.
It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.
Plain as the nose on a man's face.
Now had Aurora displayed her mantle over the blushing skies, and dark night withdrawn her sable veil.
After meat comes mustard; or, like money to a starving man at sea, when there are no victuals to be bought with it.
Let every man mind his own business.
It is the part of a wise man to keep himself to-day for to-morrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.
I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.
Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.
A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.
Let every man look before he leaps.
He has an oar in every man's boat, and a finger in every pie.
Time ripens all things. No man is born wise.
An honest man's word is as good as his bond.
Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.
What a man has, so much he is sure of.
When a man says, "Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife?" there is no answer to be made.
Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.
My thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.
Liberty ... is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.
