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Man Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes
- We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate…
- A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
- A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
- Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
- I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his…
- A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
- The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.
- Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as…
- I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a…
- Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't…
- To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.
- Man has his will, but woman has her way.
- Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist…
- Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust…
- The man flaps about with a bunch of feathers: the woman goes to work softly with a cloth
- The woman cries before the wedding; the man afterward.
- The great end of living is to harmonize man with the order of things
- To brag little - to show well - to crow gently, if in luck - to pay up, to own up, and to shut up,…
- Man has will, but woman has her way.
- It is far from easy to determine whether she (Nature) has proved to man a kind parent or a merciless stepmother
- Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension.
- Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
- Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
- A man's mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions.
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