Quotes about man
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Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)
Pitt's Reply to Walpole, Speech, March 6, 1741. This is the composition of Johnson, founded on some note or statement of the actual speech. Johnson said, "That speech I wrote in a garret, in Exeter Street." Boswell: Life of Johnson, 1741
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
On being bullied and the It Gets Better Project
http://twitter.com/#!/BretEastonEllis/status/143539970307653632
“Of all God's gifts to the sight of man, colour is the holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.”
Volume II, chapter V, section 30.
The Stones of Venice (1853)
Appendix, Broken Lights Diaries and Letters 1951-1959.
Part 6 “Aleph Null”, Chapter 3 (p. 221)
Against Infinity (1983)
Journal entry for 6 June 1996 in Free at Last!: Diaries, 1991-2001 (2003) p. 371
1990s
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
Decisions http://byub.org/findatalk/details.asp?ID=4343 BYU Devotional, February 6, 1977.
Source: Who Is Man? (1965), Ch. 4
On energy supply and solar power
To Leon Goldensohn, June 8, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004.
Quoted in "The Fight for the Pacific" - Page 157 - by Mark Gayn - 1941.
G. K. Chesterton, "Is the War Just a Misunderstanding" (January 29, 1916), reported in The collected works of G. K. Chesterton: Volume 30 (1988), p. 366.
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Introduction
Thomism: The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas
1960s, Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam (1967)
“There is said to be hope for a sick man, as long as there is life.”
Aegroto dum anima est, spes esse dicitur.
Epistulae ad Atticum (Letters to Atticus) Book IX, Letter X, section 3
Often paraphrased as: Dum anima est, spes est ("While there is life there is hope")
Compare: "While there's life there’s hope, and only the dead have none." Theocritus, Idyll 4, line 42; as translated A. S. F. Gow
Dianetics 55! (1954).
First response to the following remark by EDGE: It seems to me that Darwin is much better known in England than in the United States. Books about Darwin sell well and people debate the subjects. Here in America what passes for intellectual life doesn't necessarily include reading and having an appreciation of Darwin.
What evolution is: Talk with Ernst Mayr (2001)
1950s, Farewell address to Congress (1951)
Conversations with Jesse Stuart http://www.aliciapatterson.org/APF001975/Peyton/Peyton01/Peyton01.html, Dave Peyton. May 5, 1975.
Of The Works Of God and Man
Meditationes sacræ (1597)
"Adieu to the Evil EU" http://www.antiwar.com/mercer/?articleid=6272/ Antiwar.com, June 10, 2005.
2000s, 2005
Variant: Europeans have come to realize that adding an overarching tier of tyrants—the EU—to their own government has benefited them as a second hangman enhances the health of a condemned man.
Speech in New York (12 February 1904), as quoted in speech by Edward de Veaux Morrell in the House of Representatives https://cdn.loc.gov/service/rbc/lcrbmrp/t2609/t2609.pdf (4 April 1904)
1900s
Why I Am An Agnostic (1929)
“In the army it takes an eight-man working party to help a brass hat blow his nose.”
Source: The Puppet Masters (1951), Chapter 30 (p. 153)
“For the oral man the literal text contains all possible levels of meaning.”
Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 126
The Forgotten Man and Other Essays (corrected edition), “The Forgotten Man” 1883 http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/sumner-the-forgotten-man-and-other-essays-corrected-edition?q=Civil+liberty+is+the+status#Sumner_1225_701.
The Devil's Notebook (1992)
Source: Drenai series, Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde, Ch. 24
1962, First letter to Nikita Khrushchev
Golo Mann in his Recollections, quoted in: Marcel Reich-Ranicki (1989), Thomas Mann and his family, p. 187.
As quoted in "Dalai Lama honours Tintin and Tutu" at BBC News (2 June 2006)
Never Scared (Album Version, 2005)
"Unnecessary Roughness" (1971), p. 150
The Good Word & Other Words (1978)
Men versus the Man: A Correspondence between Robert Rives La Monte, Socialist, and H.L. Mencken, Individualist (1910), pg. 116
1910s
Reported in Truman Speaks (1960), p. 59.
“It’s not a weapon or a woman can make a man, or magery either, or any power, anything but himself.”
Source: Earthsea Books, Tehanu (1990), Chapter 12, "Winter"
On Shakespeare In Love
GQ Interview (2005)
The Jewish Strategy, Chapter 12 "Christianity"
1990s, The Jewish Strategy (2001)
Cayce answered this to a minister's question - Where is the safest place to live?
God, Spirituality
“Don't kiss a man who hasn't shaved.”
Interview with Rebecca Murray, movies.about.com/od/delovely/a/delovekk062904_2.htm
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 352.
Speech in the House of Commons (19 April 1791), quoted in J. Wright (ed.), The Speeches of the Rt. Hon. C. J. Fox in the House of Commons. Volume IV (1815), p. 192.
1790s
“Wisdom and intellect is every man's friend, ignorance and illiteracy are his enemies.”
Ibn Shu’ba al-Harrani, Tuhaf al-'Uqul, p. 467.
Regarding Knowledge & Wisdom, General
Source: Means and Ends of Education (1895), Chapter 1 "Truth and Love"
Preface to Ecuador (1929)
Speech to the Stretford Young Conservatives (21 January 1977), from A Nation or No Nation? Six Years in British Politics (Elliot Right Way Books, 1977), pp. 168-171
1970s
Address to the National Book Awards Committee, published in My Works and Days (1979)
“Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty.”
Walter Savage Landor http://www.emersoncentral.com/walter_savage_landor.htm, from The Dial, XII (1841)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 287.
“It is very astonishing that man, being a mortal, can still develop feelings of haughtiness.”
23 April 2013.
A9 TV addresses, 2013
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 561.
Source: Ten Little Wizards (1988), Chapter 14 (p. 141)
Speech http://books.google.ca/books?id=zFclDyk2LTEC&pg=PA57#v=onepage&q&f=false (15 November 1867).
1860s
“Wrong no man by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty.”
Misattributed, Jackson's personal book of maxims
How enviable a quiet death by lethal injection compared with that!
Callins v. Collins 510 U.S. 1141 (1994) (Scalia, J., concurring in denial of cert).
1990s
Taylor McAden, Chapter 25, p. 300
2000s, The Rescue (2000)
Source: A Short History Of The English Law (First Edition) (1912), Chapter III, Feudalism And Land Law, p. 27
What The Hell Happened To Me!? (1996)
The Dietetics of the Soul; Or, True Mental Discipline (1838)
Letters and Papers from Prison (1967; 1997), The Friend
“Wit and wisdom are born with a man.”
Learning.
Table Talk (1689)
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), XI : The Practical Problem
“Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.”
Crux Ansata: An Indictment of the Roman Catholic Church (1943)
“The Sanatorium at the Sign of the Hourglass” http://www.schulzian.net/translation/sanatorium/sanatorium1.htm
His father, Time
No Man Knows My History, ch. 19 (1945)
"Duty Before Security", The Smart Set, June 1919 http://books.google.com/books?id=ySscAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Women+have+a+hard+time+of+it+in+this+world+They+are+oppressed+by+man+made+laws+man+made+social+customs+masculine+egoism+the+delusion+of+masculine+superiority+Their+one+comfort+is+the+assurance+that+even+though+it+may+be+impossible+to+prevail+against+man+it+is+always+possible+to+enslave+and+torture+a+man%22&pg=RA1-PA49#v=onepage
"The Incomparable Buzzsaw", Prejudices: Second Series, Ch. 10 http://books.google.com/books?id=hy47AAAAYAAJ&q=%22Women+have+a+hard+time+of+it+in+this+world+They+are+oppressed+by+man+made+laws+man+made+social+customs+masculine+egoism+the+delusion+of+masculine+superiority+Their+one+comfort+is+the+assurance+that+even+though+it+may+be+impossible+to+prevail+against+man+it+is+always+possible+to+enslave+and+torture+a+man%22&pg=PA237#v=onepage (1920)
1910s
“It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.”
Glorify his name!, The Root of the Righteous, Ch. 39.
Onde pode acolher-se um fraco humano,
Onde terá segura a curta vida,
Que não se arme, e se indigne o Céu sereno
Contra um bicho da terra tão pequeno?
Stanza 106, lines 5–8 (tr. Richard Francis Burton)
Epic poetry, Os Lusíadas (1572), Canto I
Brown : The Last Discovery of America (2003)
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Song lyrics, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973)
Describing Joe's punching power. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/fight/peopleevents/p_louis.html
"The Pilgrims of Plymouth" http://www.unz.org/Pub/BrainerdCephas-1901v02-00267 (Oration, December 22, 1855), in Cephas Brainerd and Eveline Warner Brainerd (eds), The New England Society Orations: Volume II. New York: The Century Co., 1901, p. 298.