Man

"A man is made by the quality of his enemies."

"If a young man gets married, starts a family, and spends the rest of his life working at a soul-destroying job, he is held up as an example of virtue and responsibility. The other type of man, living only for himself, working only for himself, doing first one thing and then another simply because he enjoys it and because he has to keep only himself, sleeping where and when he wants, and facing woman when he meets her, on equal terms and not as one of a million slaves, is rejected by society. The free, unshackled man has no place in its midst."

"Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum."

"It must have required enormous effort for man to overcome his natural tendency to live like the animals in a continual present. Moreover, the development of rational thought actually seems to have impeded man's appreciation for the significance of time. ...Belief that the ultimate reality is timeless is deeply rooted in human thinking, and the origin of rational investigation of the world was the search for permanent factors that lie behind the ever-changing pattern of events."

"How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man! How passing wonder He, who made him such!"

"Ah! how unjust to nature, and himself, Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man."

"Because both man and woman have roles indispensable for life, without them the world cannot endure even a day. Their capabilities are about the same, but men are generally stronger than women. If a strong man fights a woman he will always win."

"The man forget not, though in rags he lies, And know the mortal through a crown's disguise."

"Man only,—rash, refined, presumptuous Man— Starts from his rank, and mars Creation's plan! Born the free heir of nature's wide domain, To art's strict limits bounds his narrow'd reign; Resigns his native rights for meaner things, For Faith and Fetters, Laws and Priests and Kings."

"Ye children of man! whose life is a span Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay."

"Man is the nobler growth our realms supply And souls are ripened in our northern sky."

"All sorts and conditions of men."

"Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave."

"A man's a man for a' that!"

"A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might: Guid faith, he maunna fa' that."

"The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that."

"Man,—whose heaven-erected face The smiles of love adorn,— Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!"

"Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine, And all, save the spirit of man, is divine?"

"Lord of himself;—that heritage of woe!"

"But we, who name ourselves its sovereigns, we, Half dust, half deity, alike unfit To sink or soar."

"Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, And broke the die—in moulding Sheridan."

"And say without our hopes, without our fears, Without the home that plighted love endears, Without the smile from partial beauty won, Oh! what were man?—a world without a sun."

"To lead, or brass, or some such bad Metal, a prince's stamp may add That value, which it never had. But to the pure refined ore, The stamp of kings imparts no more Worth, than the metal held before."

"Charms and a man I sing, to wit—a most superior person, Myself, who bear the fitting name of George Nathaniel Curzon."

"La vraie science et le vrai étude de l'homme c'est l'homme."

"Men the most infamous are fond of fame: And those who fear not guilt, yet start at shame."

"A self-made man? Yes—and worships his creator."

"I am made all things to all men."

"The first man is of the earth, earthy."

"An honest man, close-buttoned to the chin, Broadcloth without, and a warm heart within."

"But strive still to be a man before your mother."

"A sacred spark created by his breath, The immortal mind of man his image bears; A spirit living 'midst the forms of death, Oppressed, but not subdued, by mortal cares."

"Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full of cravings too, and full as vain."

"This is the porcelain clay of humankind."

"How dull, and how insensible a beast Is man, who yet would lord it o'er the rest."

"There is no Theam more plentiful to scan, Then is the glorious goodly Frame of Man."

"Men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness."

"A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man."

"La prima volta che vado a letto con un uomo succede quasi sempre che non si fa niente. Si preoccupano, si agitano, credono di dover fare i fenomeni. Pensano "Oddio, lo sto facendo con l'Arcuri", e non si conclude. Ormai lo so, sono rassegnata. Per questo concedo sempre una seconda chance."

"Man is a tool making animal."

"Aye, think! since time and life began, Your mind has only feared and slept; Of all the beasts they called you man Only because you toiled and wept."

"Stood I, O Nature! man alone in thee, Then were it worth one's while a man to be."

"Die Menschen fürchtet nur, wer sie nicht kennt Und wer sie meidet, wird sie bald verkennen."

"Lass uns, geliebter Bruder, nicht vergessen, Dass von sich selbst der Mensch nicht scheiden kann."

"A king may spille, a king may save; A king may make of lorde a knave; And of a knave a lorde also."

"Man is all symmetrie, Full of proportions, one limbe to another, And all to all the world besides: Each part may call the farthest, brother: For head with foot hath privite amitie, And both with moons and tides."

"Man is one world, and hath Another to attend him."

"God give us men. A time like this demands Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands! Men whom the lust of office does not kill, Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy, Men who possess opinions and a will, Men who love honor, men who cannot lie."

"Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,— Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive; and successive rise."

"Forget the brother and resume the man."