Man Quotes

Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work.

Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.

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.

The man with a new idea is a Crank until the idea succeeds.

There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.

Man is the only animal that blushes, or needs to.

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.

Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies.

Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.

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.

The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.

Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.