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Man Quotes by Elwyn Brooks White
- In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.
- Not even a collapsing world looks dark to a man who is about to make his fortune.
- Security, for me, took a tumble not when I read that there were Communists in Hollywood but when I read your editorial in praise of…
- A man is not expected to love his country, lest he make an ass of himself. Yet our country, seen through the mists of smog,…
- It is at a fair that man can be drunk forever on liquor, love, or fights; at a fair that your front pocket can be…
- Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell of…
- Walden is the only book I own, although there are some others unclaimed on my shelves. Every man, I think, reads one book in his…
- Computing machines perhaps can do the work of a dozen ordinary men, but there is no machine that can do the work of one extraordinary…
- Commuter - one who spends his life In riding to and from his wife; A man who shaves and takes a train And then rides…
- A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist - nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away,…
- As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not…
- Half a man's life is devoted to what he calls improvements, yet the original had some quality which is lost in the process.
- I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that does not have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer…
- A man's liberal and conservative phases seem to follow each other in a succession of waves from the time he is born. Children are radicals.…
- I seldom went to bed before two or three o'clock in the morning, on the theory that if anything of interest were to happen to…
- A man must have something to cling to. Without that he is as a pea vine sprawling in search of a trellis.... I was all…
- Dentistry is more impressive in town-what the rural man calls cleaning the teeth is called "prophylaxis" in New York.
- The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest.
- I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time…
- A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
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