Man Quotes
44718 Man quotes by 11542 unique authors
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Close combat, man to man, is plainly to be regarded as the real basis of combat.
— Carl von Clausewitz
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Every post is honourable in which a man can serve his country.
— George Washington
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You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your King, and you must treat every Frenchman as if he were the Devil…
— Horatio Nelson
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A noisy man is always in the right.
— William Cowper
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All the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and...however wide any of them may seem to run from it, they still…
— David Hume
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Man is only a moral being because he lives in society, since morality consists in solidarity with the group, and varies according to that solidarity.…
— Emile Durkheim
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Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
— Charles Darwin
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[I] grew up as a disciple of science. I know its fascination. I have felt the godlike power man derives from his machines.
— Charles Lindbergh
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It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the firmness or precariousness…
— Alexander Hamilton
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It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the firmness or precariousness…
— Alexander Hamilton
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There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Man is not the most majestic of the creatures; long before the mammals even, the dinosaurs were far more splendid. But he has what no…
— Jacob Bronowski
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The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man
— Charles Sumner
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Malthus argued a century and a half ago that man, by using up all his available resources, would forever press on the limits of subsistence,…
— John F. Kennedy
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You bring me the deepest joy that can be felt by a man whose invincible belief is that Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance…
— Louis Pasteur
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When the sparrow sings its final refrain, the hush is felt nowhere more deeply than in the heart of man.
— Don Williams
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Only death reveals what a nothing the body of man is.
— Juvenal
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Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.
— Tammy Wynette
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Don't tell me that man doesn't belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go - and he'll do plenty well when he gets…
— Wernher von Braun
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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because…
— Dorothea Kent
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Every right has its responsibilities. Like the right itself, these responsibilities stem from no man-made law, but from the very nature of man and society.…
— Unknown Author
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The sum total of each man's giving determines the standard of man's civilization.
— Walter Russell
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The man don't make the vision; the vision makes the man.
— David Yonggi Cho
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Every mother hopes that her daughter will marry a better man than she did, and is convinced that her son will never find a wife…
— Unknown Author
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There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it…
— Unknown Author
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