Source: Les Misérables
“Man needs dignity even more than he needs bread.”
“Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.”
“The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.”
“Man does not live by bread alone, nor guns, paperwork, theses, naked practicalities.”
Gibraltar Falls (p. 118)
Time Patrol
“He thought it happier to be dead,
To die for Beauty, than live for bread.”
Beauty
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Man can not live by bread alone… he must have peanut butter.”
280
Daybreak — Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality (1881)
“A man must be a little mad if he does not want to be even more stupid.”
Book III, Ch. 9
Essais (1595), Book III
“It is what a man does for strangers that counts more than what he does for his family.”
Source: Quintana of Charyn
“Music I heard with you was more than music,
And bread I broke with you was more than bread;”
I, This section is also known as "Bread and Music"
Discordants (1916)
Context: Music I heard with you was more than music,
And bread I broke with you was more than bread;
Now that I am without you, all is desolate;
All that was once so beautiful is dead.
