Quotes
Quotes about Man
Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the one who sold it.
Every man has one thing he can do better than anyone else - and usually it's reading his own handwriting.
Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half of the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
Despise not a small wound, a poor kinsman, or a humble enemy.
Every man has one thing he can do better than anyone else - and usually it's reading his own handwriting.
This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a human.
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
I am a creationist; I refuse to believe that I could have evolved from humans.
Man is by nature an artist.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that what he did was human nature -A.A. Milne
Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of men.
It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
Don't you hate it when life doesn't follow the manuals?
ELBONICS: Two people maneuvering for one armrest in a theater.
A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.
