2,613 Quotes About Man

Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.

sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless manthe most guilty.

The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.

Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.

An ugliness unfurled in the moonlight and soft shadow and suffused the whole world. If I were an amoeba, he thought, with an infinitesimal body, I could defeat ugliness. A man isn’t tiny or giant enough to defeat anything.

You're the kind of man my mother warned me about.

Are you a devil?""I am a man," answered Father Brown gravely; "and therefore have all devils in my heart.

Never test another man by your own weakness.

Few other griefs amid the ill chances of this world have more bitterness and shame for a man's heart than to behold the love of a lady so fair and brave that cannot be returned.