Anonymous
(Jesuit maxim-attributed)
Give me a child for the first seven years, and I'll give you the man.
Anonymous
(of Julius Ceasar)
Every woman's man, and every man's woman.
Anonymous
If every man would mend a man, then all the world would be mended.
Anonymous
(news headline on evolution findings)
Man is more mushroom than tulip.
Aristotle 384-322 BC
Politics
Man is by nature a political animal.
Armour J. Ogden
The young man who wants to marry happily should pick out a good mother and marry one of her daughters - any one will do.
Auden W.H. 1907-1973
The Dyer's Hand
Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind.
Beerbohm Sir Max 1872-1956
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
The Bible (Authorized Version)
New Testament: I Corinthians ch.13 v.1
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
For now we see though a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
The Bible (Authorized Version)
New Testament: Galatians ch.6 v.5
Every man shall bear his own burden.
The Bible (Authorized Version)
New Testament: St Mark ch.2 v.27
The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath.
The Bible
Old Testament: Ecclesiastes ch.8 v.15
A man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry.
The Bible
Old Testament: Genesis ch.9 v.6
Whoso shedeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.
The Bible
Old Testament: I Samuel Ch.13 v.14
A man after his own heart.
Billings Josh 1818-1885
When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.
Billings Josh 1818-1885
When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.
Binger William
A man is a person who will pay two dollars for a one-dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two-dollar item she doesn't want.
The Book of Common Prayer
The Burial of the Dead, First Anthem
Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery.
Bourjaily Vance
Every man, even the most blessed, needs a little more than average luck to survive this world.
Bowman Peter
Only man, among living things, says prayers.
Or needs to.
Bowra Sir Maurice 1898-1971
John Betjeman Summoned by Bells
I'm a man more dined against than dining.
Braun Wernher von 1912-1977
Everything in space obeys the laws of physics. If you know these laws, and obey them, space will treat you kindly. And don't tell me man doesn't belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go - and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.
Browne Sir Thomas 1605-1682
Hydriotaphia
Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
Browning Robert 1812-1889
„In a Balcony"
A man can have but one life and one death.
One heaven, one hell.
Browning Robert 1812-1889
‘A Death in the Desert'
... Progress, man's distinctive mark alone,
Not God's, and not the beasts': God is, they are,
Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.
Byron Lord 1788-1824
Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean - roll!
Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;
Man marks the earth with ruin - his control
Stops with the shore.
Chaucer Geoffrey c.1343-1400
The Canterbury Tales
And therefore, at the kynges court, my brother,
Ech man for himself, ther is noon oother.
Cheknov Anton 1860-1904
A man and a woman marry because both of them don't know what to do with themselves.
Cheknov Anton 1860-1904
Uncle Vanya
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's
ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
Defoe Daniel 1660-1731
Robinson Crusoe
My man Friday.
Disraeli Benjamin 1804-1881
Man, my Lord, is a being born to believe.
Emerson Ralph Waldo 1803-1882
All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.
Emerson Ralph Waldo 1803-1882
Every man is wanted, and no man is wanted much.
Emerson Ralph Waldo 1803-1882
I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
Faulkner William 1897-1962
Too much happens ... Man perfoms, engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.
Feather William
A man of fifty looks as old as Santa Claus to a girl of twenty.
Freud Sigmund 1856-1939
Man should not strive to eliminate his complexes, but to get in accord with them; they are legitimately what directs his contact in the world.
Fucik Julius
To be a man will continue to demand a heroic heart as long as mankind is not quite human.
Gaskell Elizabeth 1810-1865
Cranford
A man ... is so in the way in the house!
Geaye Henry
Motives and purposes are in the brain and heart of man. Consequences are in the world of fact.
Goethe Johann von 1749-1832
Faust
Man will err while yet he strives.
Goethe Johann von 1749-1832
A man can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.
Goethe Johann von 1749-1832
The right man is the one that seizes the moment.