30,129 Quotes About Men

Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.

To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.

I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.

For no man can forbid the spark nor tell whence it may come.

Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?

Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.

Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical.

Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or thought of the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.

Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, is limited in act and understanding by his observation of the order of nature; neither his understanding nor his power extends further.