Quotes related to Proverbs 16:9
The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.
— John Quincy Adams
Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.
— William Faulkner
Two times two will be four even without my will. Is that what you call man's free will?
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.
— Albert Camus
Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change.
— Charles Dickens
What is man? Ally of God or simply his toy? His triumph or his fall?
— Elie Wiesel
Man cannot choose his duties.
— George Eliot
Life is always uncertain, and common prudence dictates to every man the necessity of settling his temporal concerns, while it is in his power, and while the mind is calm and undisturbed.
— George Washington
He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.
— GK Chesterton
time wasted is not always a waste of time.
— Terri Blackstock
YOU WILL NEVER LEAVE WHERE YOU ARE UNTIL YOU SEE WHERE YOU'D RATHER BE! —
— Terri Savelle Foy