Man Quotes

Every man, black, white or yellow... that bread should be allowed to go to that mouth without controversy.

Suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.

Although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.

With pleasure I write my name in your Album. Ere long some younger man will be more happy to confer his name upon you. Don't allow it, Mary, until fully assured that he is worthy of the happiness.

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind; and therefore ... I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.

I am a patient man - always willing to forgive on the Christian terms of repentance; and also to give ample time for repentance.

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself, and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

The man and the movement seemed 'reactionary' in my eyes.

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes.

I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature.

Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value.

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculties! In form and moving, how express and admirable! In action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world! The paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?

Wisdom cries out in the streets, and no man regards it.

Don't judge a man's conscience by looking at his face cause he may have a bad heart.

I start where the last man left off.