Quotes
Quotes about Man
A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts.
Elbonics: Two people maneuvering for one armrest in a movie theater.
All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.
To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of the lamb for the sake of the human body. I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.
Many a man's tongue broke his nose.
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
Remember, life is not what happens to you but what you make of what happens to you. Everyone dies, but not everyone fully lives. Too many people are having "near-life experiences.
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
Night fell again. There was war to the south, but our sector was quiet. The battle was over. Our casualties were some thirteen thousand killed--thirteen thousand minds, memories, loves, sensations, worlds, universes--because the human mind is more a universe than the universe itself--and all for a few hundred yards of useless mud.
Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?
Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.
When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package.
If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.
It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, his next to escape the censures of the world.
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
No man is a hero to his valet.
There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they life about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to other animals as well as humans, it is all a sham.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
Man is born to live, not to prepare to live.
