Man Quotes
Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care.
As man advances in civilization, and small tribes are united into larger communities, the simplest reason would tell each individual that he ought to extend his social instincts and sympathies to all members of the same nation, though personally unknown to him. This point being once reached, there is only an artificial barrier to prevent his sympathies extending to the men of all nations and races.
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.
Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.
There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.
The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.
Behind every successful man, there is a woman - And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two.
Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon.
A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by.
Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.
I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.
Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
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