Quotes
Quotes about Man
It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must be highly gratifying to them.
A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.
I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.
Behind every able man, there are always other able men.
Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.
Ability is a poor man's wealth.
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
The question "Who ought to be boss?" is like as "Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?" Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.
But when he (man) shall have been taken from sight, he quickly goes also out of mind. [Lat., Cum autem sublatus fuerit ab oculis, etiam cito transit a mente.]
For there's nae luck about the house; There's nae luck at aw; There's little pleasure in the house When our gudeman's awa. - William Julius Mickle,
When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint.
The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence... and loathing seizes him.
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
