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Best Man Quotes by Alexander Pope
- And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?
- For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.
- No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
- Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
- Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
- The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
- If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
- Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
- The proper study of Mankind is Man.
- An honest man's the noblest work of God.
- Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.
- Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.
- Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.
- Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
- Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
- Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.
- Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE,…
- Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare; And beauty draws us with a single hair.
- Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T'…
- No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her; but many a woman hates a man for being only her friend.
- A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying...that he is wiser today than he was…
- Then say not Man's imperfect,Heav'n in fault; Say rather, Man's as perfect ashe ought:
More Man Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle