Quotes
Quotes about Man
We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another.
I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me.
The older a man gets, the farther he had to walk to school as a boy.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half of the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
The older a man gets, the farther he had to walk to school as a boy.
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.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gainsâexcept kill it.
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet tired of the man.
It often shows an excellent command of language to say nothing.
Said a hunted fox followed by twenty horsemen and a pack of twenty hounds, "Of course they will kill me. But how poor and how stupid they must be. Surely it would not be worth while for twenty foxes riding on twenty asses and accompanied by twenty wolves to chase and kill one man." -Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) [Sand and Foam]
A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
I care not for a man's religion whose dog or cat are not the better for it.
No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.
The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.
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.
...no battle is ever won...they are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and Victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
