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Man Quotes by James Thurber
- When man gives up on reforming and inspiring society he also gives up his freedom.
- Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
- Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
- I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance.
- The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers…
- Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.
- The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.
- Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige…
- Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised
- Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
- Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead.
- The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
- The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is…
- Next to reasoning, the greatest handicap to the optimum development of Man lies in the fact that this planet is just barely habitable. Its minimum…
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