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Man Quotes by Carl Sandburg
- There is only one man in the world and his name is All Men. There is only one woman in the world and her name…
- Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as hard as rock…
- Time says hush: by the gong of time you live. Listen and you hear time saying you were silent long before you came to life…
- It is necessary now and then for a man to go away by himself and experience loneliness; to sit on a rock in the forest…
- The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading "Keep Off.
- A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.
- Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.
- I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
- Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.
- A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
- I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.
- Tell no man anything, for no man listens Yet hold thy lips ready to speak.
- It is necessary ... for a man to go away by himself ... to sit on a rock ... and ask, 'Who am I, where…
- His books were part of him. Each year of his life, it seemed, his books became more and more a part of him. This room,…
- The man who fails while trying to do good has more honor than he who succeeds by accident
- I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth and never cherishes any memory except the face of the…
- (All the coaches shall be scrapand rust and all the men and women laughing in the dinersand sleepers shall pass to ashes.) I ask a…
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