Quotes
Quotes about Man
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams.
Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.
Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me, accepted all my views, and yielded easily to my opinions, were those who did me the most injury, and were my worst enemies, because, by surrendering to me so easily, they encouraged me to go too far... I was then too powerful for any man, except myself, to injure me.
Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.
All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books.
Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
Learning is acquired by reading books; but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading man, and studying all the various editions of them.
But man, proud man,
If you give me six lines written by the most honest man, I will find something in them to hang him.
Youth is the first victim of war - the first fruit of peace. It takes 20 years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only 20 seconds of war to destroy him.
Why does no one confess his sins? Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams.
He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak.
A successful man is one who makes more money than a wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them.
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
