Quotes
Quotes about Man
In truth you owe naught to any man. You owe all to all men.
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.
The angels know that too many practical men eat their bread with the sweat of the dreamer's brow.
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.
Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like.
Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?
Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom.
Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.
Show me a man with both feet on the ground, and I'll show you a man who can't put his pants on.
The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection.
'Tis very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. If anyone finds out he'll become happy at once.
The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
When you see a man led to prison say in your heart, "Mayhap he is escaping from a narrower prison." And when you see a man drunken say in your heart, "Mayhap he sought escape from something still more unbeautiful." -Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) [Sand and Foam]
Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.
O senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm and yet will make Gods by the dozen!
The world, we are told, was made especially for man--a presumption not supported by all the facts... Why should man value himself as more than a small part of the one great unit of creation?
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
