Man

"Miäs on aina miäs, vaikkei solsi kun kukon kokoonen. (Lapua, Southern Bothnia) (KRA)"

"Ei se ou mies joka humalassa laulaa, vuan sen on mies joka kohmelossa rallattaa. (Rautalampi, Savonia) (KRA)"

"Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet."

"Quod, ut dictur, si est homo bulla, eo magis senex."

"The Divine government of the world is like a stream that rolls under us; men are only as bubbles that rise on its surface; some are brighter and larger, and sparkle longer in the sun than others; but all must break; whilst the mighty current rolls on in its wonted majesty!"

"The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics."

"Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright."

"Hominem quæro."

"Of the king's creation you may be; but he who makes a count, ne'er made a man."

"Der edle Mensch ist nur ein Bild von Gott."

"Man is the crowning of history and the realization of poetry, the free and living bond which unites all nature to that God who created it for Himself."

"But if, indeed, there be a nobler life in us than in these strangely moving atoms; if, indeed, there is an eternal difference between the fire which inhabits them, and that which animates us,— it must be shown, by each of us in his appointed place, not merely in the patience, but in the activity of our hope, not merely by our desire, but our labor, for the time when the dust of the generations of men shall be confirmed for foun: dations of the gates of the city of God."

"Man, created to God's image and likeness (Gen. 1:26–27), is not just flesh and blood. The sexual instinct is not all that he has. Man is also, and pre-eminently, intelligent and free; and thanks to these powers he is, and must remain, superior to the rest of creation; they give him mastery over his physical, psychological and affective appetites."

"When I die, my epitaph or whatever you call those signs on gravestones is going to read: "I joked about every prominent man of my time, but I never met a man I dident like". I am so proud of that I can hardly wait to die so it can be carved. And when you come to my grave you will find me sitting there, proudly reading it."

"Os homini sublime dedit cœlumque tueri Jussit; et erectos ad sidera tollere vultus."

"Man's the bad child of the universe."

"No more was seen the human form divine."

"Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels."

"A man after his own heart."

""How poor a thing is man!" alas 'tis true, I'd half forgot it when I chanced on you."

"When I beheld this I sighed, and said within myself, Surely man is a Broomstick!"

"Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto."

"I weigh the man, not his title: 'tis not the king's inscription can make the metal better or heavier."

"In that vast march, the van forgets the rear; the individual is lost; and yet the multitude is many individuals. He faints and falls and dies; man is forgotten; but still mankind move on, still worlds revolve, and the will of God is done in earth and heaven."

"Let us not undervalue the dignity of human nature. Man. although fallen, still retains some traces of his primeval glory and excellence — broken columns of a celestial temple, magnificent, even in its ruins."

"Man has wants deeper than can be supplied by wealth or nature or domestic affections. His great relations are to his God and to eternity."

"Who is wise? He that learns from every One. Who is powerful? He that governs his Passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody."

"Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers; and if you make them capable and sensible men, they will make themselves capable and sensible lawyers or physicians."

"A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: "There is no indispensable man"."

"It is said that Napoleon lost the battle of Waterloo because he forgot his infantry—he staked too much upon the more spectacular but less substantial cavalry. The present administration in Washington provides a close parallel. It has either forgotten or it does not want to remember the infantry of our economic army. These unhappy times call for the building of plans that rest upon the forgotten, the unorganized but the indispensable units of economic power, for plans like those of 1917 that build from the bottom up and not from the top down, that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid."

"What a chimera, then, is man! what a novelty, what a monster, what a chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! A judge of all things, feeble worm of the earth, depositary of the truth, cloaca of uncertainty and error, the glory and the shame of the universe!"

"Man is the plumeless genus of bipeds, birds are the plumed."

"Nos non pluris sumus quam bullæ."

"Piper, non homo."

"Homo homini lupus."

"A minister, but still a man."

"So, if unprejudiced you scan The going of this clock-work, man, You find a hundred movements made By fine devices in his head; But 'tis the stomach's solid stroke That tells his being what's o'clock."

"Man is the measure of all things."

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. Shame on the man of cultivated taste who permits refinement to develop into fastidiousness that unfits him for doing the rough work of a workaday world. Among the free peoples who govern themselves there is but a small field of usefulness open for the men of cloistered life who shrink from contact with their fellows. Still less room is there for those who deride or slight what is done by those who actually bear the brunt of the day; nor yet for those others who always profess that they would like to take action, if only the conditions of life were not exactly what they actually are."

"Quit yourselves like men."

"Thou art the man."

"Der Mensch ist, der lebendig fühlende, Der leichte Raub des mächt'gen Augenblicks."

"Give us a man of God's own mould Born to marshall his fellow-men; One whose fame is not bought and sold At the stroke of a politician's pen. Give us the man of thousands ten, Fit to do as well as to plan; Give us a rallying-cry, and then Abraham Lincoln, give us a Man."

"Titles of honour are like the impressions on coin—which add no value to gold and silver, but only render brass current."

"Homo vitæ commodatus, non donatus est."

"Man is man, and master of his fate."

"I am an acme of things accomplished, and I am encloser of things to be."

"When faith is lost, when honor dies, The man is dead!"

"The older I grow — and I now stand upon the brink of eternity — the more comes back to me that sentence in the Catechism which I learned when a child, and the fuller and deeper its meaning becomes, "What is the chief end of man? To glorify God and enjoy Him forever.""

"Man is man's A, B, C. There's none that can Read God aright, unless he first spell man."