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Quotes about Man


The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato,--the only good belonging to him is under ground.

Sir Thomas Overbury

Beware the fury of a patient man.

John Dryden

Anger, which, far sweeter than trickling drops of honey, rises in the bosom of a man like smoke.

Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")

Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan)

No man provokes me with impunity. [Lat., Nemo me impune lacessit.]

Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Motto

Anger assists hands however weak. [Lat., Quamlibet infirmas adjuvat ira manus.]

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

Anger wishes that all mankind had only one neck; love, that it had only one heart; grief, two tear-glands; and pride, two bent knees.

Jean Paul Richter

Anger manages everything badly.

Lucius Annaeus statius

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Thomas Fuller

A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

St. Francis De Sales

Beware the fury of a patient man. -John Dryden.

John Dryden

When a man is wrong and won't admit is, he always gets angry. -Thomas Haliburton.

Thomas Haliburton

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help. Clarendon -Thomas Fuller.

Thomas Fuller

Being angered is the greatest defeat to a human being.

Kazi Shams

Beware of the fury of the patient man. -John Dryden.

John Dryden

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. -Booker T. Washington.

Booker T. Washington

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry. Lawrence J. Peter -Henry Beecher.

Henry Beecher

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm any hostility. -HW Longfellow.

Hw Longfellow

A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you are not yourself. Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason. Know this to be the enemy: it is anger, born of desire. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A cat will look down to a man. A dog will look up to a man. But a pig will look you straight in the eye and see his equal.

Unattributed Author

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. She is author of The Color Purple.

Alice Walker

There is a calf within California many calves drowned in Chino mud.

O Anna Niemus

Animals are human just like us in a different shape and form so do not abuse them.

Anonymous Anonymous

How many roads must a man walk down Before your can call him a man? . . . The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind.

Bob Dylan

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