“God made night
But
Man made darkness.”
Spike Milligan (1918–2002) British-Irish comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright, soldier and actor
Poem God Made Night, Small Dreams of a Scorpion: Poems (1972)
“God made the country, and man made the town.”
Source: The Task (1785), Book I, The Sofa, Line 749.
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“Art is Nature made by Man
To Man the interpreter of God.”
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) English statesman and poet
The Artist, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“As the saying goes: God made man and woman; Colonel Colt made them equal.”
Ann Coulter book If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans
Source: If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans
“Man made God in his own image…”
Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer
Source: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“When God made man she was practicing.”
Rita Mae Brown (1944) Novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist
Source: Cat on the Scent
“God made the integers, all the rest is the work of man.”
Leopold Kronecker (1823–1891) German mathematician who worked on number theory and algebra (1823–1891)
Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gott gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk.
Quoted in "Philosophies of Mathematics" - Page 13 - by Alexander George, Daniel J. Velleman - Philosophy - 2002
