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Man Quotes by Edward Dahlberg
- There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel,…
- What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise, and nobody is…
- Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon,…
- I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.
- Woman is the most superstitious animal beneath the moon. When a woman has a premonition that Tuesday will be a disaster, to which a man…
- So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The…
- Man is at the nadir of his stregth when the Earth, the seas, the mountains are not in him, for without them his soul is…
- We are uneasy with an affectionate man, for we are positive he wants something of us, particularly our love.
- Of all the animals on earth, none is so brutish as man when he seeks the delirium of coition.
- Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.
- Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits…
- The newspaper has debauched the American until he is a slavish, simpering, and angerless citizen; it has taught him to be a lump mass-man toward…
- I have no confidence in a man whose faults you cannot see.
- A man who can be entertaining for a full day will be in his grave by night-fall.
- Man pines to live but cannot endure the days of his life.
- Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise…
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