Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was…

For a few brief days the orchards are white with blossoms. They soon turn to fruit, or else float away, useless and wasted, upon…

— Theodore L. Cuyler

Such widely different things as war and picnics will surely show a man up.

— Bess Truman

Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.

— Anonymous

“Oh, I wish so much to live again! Each minute, each instant of life should be blessedness for man... they should, surely they should!…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Among the works of man, which human life is rightly employed in perfecting, the first in importance surely is man himself.

— John Stuart Mill

“Surely a Man may speak Truth with a smiling countenance.”

— Horace

“It was surely well for man that he came late in the order of creation. There”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.

— Anne Bradstreet

[If] man creates the problem, surely man can solve it.

— Richard Branson

If the criminal will not keep his gains for ever and his victim will not always suffer want, surely man passes like a shadow…

— Mark the Evangelist

Man has created death.

— William Butler Yeats

The human race is the basis on which heaven is founded, is because man was last created, and that which is last created is…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

“I have the strange feeling that man created language but now it creates us.”

— Kiran Nagarkar

Two ideas are psychologically deep-rooted in man: self-protection and self-preservation. For self-protection man has created God, on whom he depends for his own protection,…

— Walpola Rahula

Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since.

— Josh Billings