Quotes
Quotes about Man
This many-headed monster.
There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold-- For this the tragic Muse first trod the stage.
Tom Goodwin was an actor-man, Old Drury's pride and boast, In all the light and spritely parts, Especially the ghost.
That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it; This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundreds soon hit: His high man, aiming at a million, Misses an unit.
Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year.
Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate, Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts, our angles are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
Think like a man of action and act like a man of thought.
Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
The true gentleman does not preach his beliefs until he does so by his actions.
You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but also his desires.
A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than himself, dwells in the breast of man. It is to this hour, and at all hours, the vivifying influence in man's life.
You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
It's ok for a man to commit adultery if his wife is ugly
Adventure is not outside a man; it is within.
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and Adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
And these vicissitudes come best in youth; For when they happen at a riper age, People are apt to blame the Fates, forsooth, And wonder Providence is not more sage. Adversity is the first path to truth: He who hath proved war, storm, or woman's rage, Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty, Has won experience which is deem'd so weighty.
