Quotes about Man
You are an exceptional man, and it's not just my senility speaking, half the country would agree with me, and the other half doesn't count.
— Isabel Allende
Paul said, I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city.
— Anonymous
Shame arises from the fear of man; conscience from the fear of God.
— Samuel Johnson
It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that, to break a man's spirit is devil's work.
— George Bernard Shaw
So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man. When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
— George Eliot
It matters very little whether a man is discontented in the name of pessimism or progress, if his discontent does in fact paralyse his power of appreciating what he has got.
— GK Chesterton
The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
— Anonymous
From his cradle to the grave, a man never does a single thing which has any first and foremost object save one-to secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for himself.
— Mark Twain
Man's capacity for evil makes democracy necessary and man's capacity for good makes democracy possible.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that through me ran; And much it grieved my heart to think What Man has made of Man.
— William Wordsworth
There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
— Victor Hugo