Quotes about Man
Humility, a sense of reverence before the sons of heaven - of all the prizes that a mortal man might win, these, I say, are wisest; these are best.
- Euripides
Pride is competition-competition between God and Man.
- Ezra Taft Benson
The responsibility of a man is to lead his family.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Everything in man should halt in awe...Let all the world quake and let Heaven exult when Christ the Son of the living God is there on the altar.
- St. Francis Of Assisi
There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.
- George Bernard Shaw
In the love of a brave and faithful man there is always a strain of maternal tenderness; he gives out again those beams of protecting fondness which were shed on him as he lay on his mother's knee.
- George Eliot
It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us; as if life were not sacred too.
- George Eliot
When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book.
- George Eliot
My God, the man is a fascist - a fascist, I tell you.
- George W. Bush
I consider it an indubitable mark of mean-spiritedness and pitiful vanity to court applause from the pen or tongue of man.
- George Washington
To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.
- GK Chesterton
Oh, most unhappy man,' he cried, 'try to be happy! You have red hair like your sister.' My red hair, like red flames, shall burn up the world,' said Gregory.
- GK Chesterton