Admired Quote by Thomas Jefferson

Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

Is a man satisfied, merely because he is perfumed himself, to mingle with a malodorous crowd?

— Edward Bellamy

Though men of delicate taste be rare, they are easily to be distinguished in society by the soundness of their understanding, and the superiority…

— David Hume

What we say of a thing that has just come in fashion And that which we do with the dead, Is the name of…

— Oliver Goldsmith

If man was what he ought to be, he would be adored by the animals.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

It is rather an unpleasant fact, that the ugliest and awkwardest of brute animals have the greatest resemblance to man: the monkey and the…

— Charles Lamb

“See what monkeys we are! Look, such is man!" and at once all renown, all intelligence, all the attainments of the spirit, all progress…

— Hermann Hesse

Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.

— W. S. Gilbert

In the name of what - except perhaps the coefficient of rarity - does man adorn himself with necklaces of shells and not spider's…

— Jean Dubuffet

All who say the same things do not possess them in the same manner; and hence the incomparable author of the Art of Conversation…

— Blaise Pascal

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. That remark in itself wouldn't make any sense if quoted…

— Robert Benchley

Admiration of great men, living or dead, naturally evokes imitation of them in a greater or less degree.

— Samuel Smiles