Man Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

46 Man Quotes
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“All sorts and conditions of men.”
Book of Common Prayer Quotes
Source: Prayer for all Conditions of Men
“Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave.”
Sir Thomas Browne Quotes
Source: Urn Burial (ch. V)
“Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?”
Robert Browning Quotes
Source: Andrea del Sarto (l. 97)
“A man's a man for a' that!”
Robert Burns Quotes
Source: For A' That and A' That
“A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might: Guid faith, he maunna fa' that.”
Robert Burns Quotes
Source: For A' That and A' That
“The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that.”
Robert Burns Quotes
Source: For A' That and A' That
“Man,--whose heaven-erected face The smiles of love adorn,-- Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!”
Robert Burns Quotes
Source: Man Was Made to Mourn
“Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine, And all, save the spirit of man, is divine?”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes
Source: The Bride of Abydos (canto I, st. 1)
“Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because he is a man.”
Hans J. Morgenthau Quotes
“The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are.”
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Quotes
“All that I care to know is that a man is a human being--that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.”
Mark Twain Quotes
“I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart--the best brain. The superior man ... stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.”
Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes
“Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.”
Daniel Webster Quotes
“The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.”
Albert Schweitzer Quotes
“Value of a man depends upon his courage; his veracity depends upon his self-respect and his chastity depends upon his sense of honor.”
Hazrat Ali (a.s) Quotes
“Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers; and if you make them capable and sensible men, they will make themselves capable and sensible lawyers or physicians.”
John Stuart Mill Quotes
“All the world's a stage, And all the men and merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts....”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“Man is a piece of the universe made alive.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“No man is an island entire of itself; every man is part of the main ... Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”
John Donne Quotes
“Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.”
Alexander Hamilton Quotes
“Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.”
Albert Camus Quotes