Quotes
Quotes about Man
To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury, Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America.
Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance. -Shakespeare.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the roar of its many waters.
One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.
I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.
You can always tell when a man is well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.
You may easily play a joke on a man who likes to argue--agree with him.
The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.
Ye rigid Ploughman! bear in mind Your labor is for future hours. Advance! spare not! nor look behind! Plough deep and straight with all your powers!
The life of the husbandman,--a life led by the bounty of earth and sweetened by the airs of heaven.
And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together."
In ancient times, the sacred Plough employ'd The Kings and awful Fathers of mankind: And some, with whom compared your insect-tribes Are but the beings of a summer's day, Have held the Scale of Empire, ruled the Storm Of mighty War; then, with victorious hand, Disdaining little delicacies, seized The Plough, and, greatly independent, scorned All the vile stores corruption can bestow.
The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love.' It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.
A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance.
A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know.
Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.
Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the "y" is silent.
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.
It's not till sex has died out between a man and a woman that they can really love. And now I mean affection. Now I mean to be fond of (as one is fond of oneself) --to hope, to be disappointed, to live inside the other heart. When I look back on the pain of sex, the love like a wild fox so ready to bite, the antagonism that sits like a twin beside love, and contrast it with affection, so deeply unrepeatable, of two people who have lived a life together (and of whom one must die) it's the affection I find richer. It's that I would have again. Not all those doubtful rainbow colors.
There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.
Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.
How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.
She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.
