110 quotes found
“The middle class prefers comfort to pleasure convenience to liberty and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.”
“The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I my lords am on the side of the angels.”
“We fancy men are individuals so are pumpkins but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.”
“We should expect the best and the worst from mankind as from the weather.”
“The race of man while sheep in credulity are wolves for conformity.”
“Men are cruel but man is kind.”
“A human being isn't an orchid he must draw something from the soil he grows in.”
“He was a man take him for all in all I shall not look upon his like again.”
“The strongest human instinct is to impart information the second strongest is to resist it.”
“God made him and therefore let him pass for a man.”
“Darwinian Man though well-behaved At best is only a monkey shaved!”
“Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed the only animal that is never satisfied.”
“Most people in action are not worth very much and yet every human being is an unprecedented miracle.”
“People are too durable that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves they last too long.”
“I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice but because he has a soul a spirit capable of compassion a...”
“A man is a kind of inverted thermometer the bulb uppermost and the column of self-valuation is all the time going up and down.”
“Man is a wanting animal - as soon as one of his needs is satisfied another appears in its place. This process is unending. It continues from birth to death.”
“The forgotten man. He is the clean quiet virtuous domestic citizen who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard of outside his little circle. ... He works he votes generally he prays but his...”
“Limited in his nature infinite in his desires man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.”
“Men must endure their going hence even as their coming hither ripeness is all.”
