Goldsmith Oliver 1730-1774
The Deserted Village
A man he was to all the country dear,
And passing rich with forty pounds a year;
Remote from towns he ran his godly race,
Nor e'er had changed nor wished to change his place.
Goldsmith Oliver 1730-1774
‘Edwin and Angelina, or the Hermit'
Man wants but little here below,
Nor wants that little long.
Goldsmith Oliver 1730-1774
‘Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog'
The man recovered of the bite,
The dog it was that died.
Harburg E.Y. 1898-1981
The World would be a safer place,
If someone had a plan,
Before exploring Outer Space,
To find the Inner man.
Hazlitt William 1778-1830
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck by the difference between what things are and what they might have been.
Hesse Hermann 1877-1962
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
Hoffenstein Samuel
Breathes there a man with hide so tough
Who says two sexes aren't enough?
Howe Edgar Watson
A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier and hoarser than his wife.
Hume David 1711-1776
Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.
James William 1842-1910
Man, biologically considered, and whatever else he may be into the bargain, is simply the most formidable of all the beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own species.
Johnson Samuel 1709-1784
Every man has, some time in his life, an ambition to be a wag.
Kelly William M. 1811-1888
Man is a slow, sloppy and brilliant thinker; the machine is fast, accurate and stupid.
Kipling Rudyard 1865-1936
Just So Stories ‘How the Whale ..'
And the small ‘Stute Fish said in a small ‘stute voice, ‘Noble and generous Cetacean, have you ever tasted Man?' ‘ No,' said the Whale. ‘What is it like?' ‘Nice,' said the small ‘Stute Fish. ‘Nice but nubbly.'
Kipling Rudyard 1865-1936
‘The Ladies'
When you get to a man in the case,
They're like as a row of pins -
For the Colonel's Lady an' Judy O'Grady
Are sisters under their skins!
Kipling Rudyard 1865-1936
The man who would be king.
Kipling Rudyard 1865-1936
Rewards and Fairies ‘If -`
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!
Kipling Rudyard 1865-1936
Rewards and Fairies ‘The Thousandth Man'
One man in a thousand, Solomon says,
Will stick more close than a brother.
La Rochefoucauld François Duc de 1613-1680
Maxims
There is scarcely a single man sufficiently aware to know all the evil he does.
Larkin Philip 1922-1985
‘This Be The Verse'
Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
A don't have any kids yourself.
Latimer Hugh c.1485-1555
(prior to being burned for heresy)
Be of good comfort Master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle by God's grace in England, as (I trust) shall never be put out.
Lee Nathaniel c.1653-1692
Theodosius
Man, false man, smiling, destructive man.
Lincoln Abraham 1809-1865
Every man over forty is responsible for his face.
Lincoln Abraham 1809-1865
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.
Lowell James Russell 1819-1891
‘On the Capture of Fugitive Slaves'
Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.
MacDiarmid Hugh 1892-1978
A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
He's no a man ava',
And lacks a proper pride,
Gin less than a' the world
Can ser' him for a bride!
Malraux André 1901-1976
Man is a dog's ideal of what God should be.
Marston John 1576-1634
Satire VII
‘A man, a man!' ‘Peace, Cynic, yon is one:
A complete soul of all perfection.'
‘What, mean'st thou him that walks all ope-
breasted;
Drawn through the ear, with ribans, plumy-
crested;
He that doth snort in fat-fed luxury,
And gapes for some grinding monopoly;
He that in effeminate invention,
In beastly source of all pollution,
In riot, lust, and fleshly seeming sweetness,
Sleeps sound, secure, under the shade of greatness?
Marvell Andrew 1621-1678
‘The Garden'
Such was the happy garden-state,
While man there walked without a mate.
Marx Groucho 1895-1977
(attributed)
A man is only as old as the woman he feels.
Mearns Hughes 1875-1965
The Psycho-ed
As I was walking up the stair
I met a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today.
I wish, I wish he'd stay away.
Mencken H.L. 1880-1956
Nothing can come out of an artist that is not in the man.
Milton John 1608-1674
Areopagitica
As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature,
God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Moliére 1622-1673
Tartuffe
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
More Hannah 1745-1833
Christian Morals
Man cannot be safely trusted with a life of leisure.
Nietzsche Friedrich 1844-1900
Die fröhliche Wissenschaft
God is dead: but considering the state the species Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.
O'brien Flann 1911-1966
At Swim-Two-Birds
A pint of plain is your only man.
O'connor Frank 1903-1966
No man is as anti-feminst as a really feminine woman.
Orwell George 1903-1950
Animal Farm
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing.
Parker Dorothy 1893-1967
Where's the man could ease the heart
Like a satin gown?
Pascal Blaise 1623-1662
Pensées
When we see a natural style, we are quite surprised and delighted, for we expected to see an author and we find a man.
Paul Leslie 1905-1985
Angry young man.
Pearson Maryon
Behind every great man there is a surprised woman.
Pembroke Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of c.1534-1601
A parliament can do any thing but make a man a woman, and a woman a man.
Plautus c.250-184 BC
Asinaria
A man is a wolf rather than a man to another man, when he hasn't yet found out what he's like.