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Man only,--rash, refined, presumptuous Man--
Starts from his rank, and mars Creation's plan!
Born the free heir of nature's wide domain,
To art's strict limits bounds his narrow'd reign;
Resigns his native rights for meaner things,
For Faith and Fetters, Laws and Priests and Kings.
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin--The Progress of Man (l. 55)
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The man forget not, though in rags he lies,
And know the mortal through a crown's disguise.
Author: Mark Akenside
Source: Epistle to Curio
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There never was such beauty in another man.
Nature made him, and then broke the mould.
[Fr., Non e un si bello in tante altre persone,
Natura il fece, e poi roppa la stampa.]
Author: Ludovico Ariosto
Source: Orlando Furioso (canto X, st. 84)
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Ye children of man! whose life is a span
Protracted with sorrow from day to day,
Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous,
Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay.
Author: Aristophanes
Source: Birds, translation by John Hookham Frere
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Let each man think himself an act of God.
His mind a thought, his life a breath of God.
Author: Philip James Bailey
Source: Festus--Proem (l. 162)
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Man is the nobler growth our realms supply
And souls are ripened in our northern sky.
Author: Mrs. Anna Letitia Barbauld
Source: The Invitation
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Thou wilt scarce be a man before thy mother.
Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
Source: Love's Cure (act II, sc. 2)
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And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:
and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the
fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and
over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Author: Bible
Source: Genesis (ch. I, v. 26)
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To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am
made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
Author: Bible
Source: I Corinthians (ch. IX, v. 22)
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The first man is of the earth,
earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.
Author: Bible
Source: I Corinthians (ch. XV, v. 47)
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Be strong, and quit yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that
ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they have been to you:
quit yourselves like men, and fight.
Author: Bible
Source: I Samuel (ch. V, v. 9)
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But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the Lord hath sought him
a man after his own heart, and the Lord hath commanded him to be
captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which
the Lord commanded thee.
Author: Bible
Source: I Samuel (ch. XIII, v. 14)
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And Nathan said to David, Thou art the Man.
Author: Bible
Source: II Samuel (ch. XII, v. 7)
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Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein
is he to be accounted of?
Author: Bible
Source: Isaiah (ch. II, v. 22)
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Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
Author: Bible
Source: Job (ch. XIV, v. 1)
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For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast
crowned him with glory and honour.
Author: Bible
Source: Psalms (ch. VIII, v. 5)
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Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of
that man is peace.
Author: Bible
Source: Psalms (ch. XXXVII, v. 37)
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All sorts and conditions of men.
Author: Book of Common Prayer
Source: Prayer for all Conditions of Men
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Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the
grave.
Author: Sir Thomas Browne
Source: Urn Burial (ch. V)
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Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?
Author: Robert Browning
Source: Andrea del Sarto (l. 97)
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A man's a man for a' that!
Author: Robert Burns
Source: For A' That and A' That
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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.
Author: Robert Burns
Source: For A' That and A' That
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The rank is but the guinea's stamp,
The man's the gowd for a' that.
Author: Robert Burns
Source: For A' That and A' That
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Man,--whose heaven-erected face
The smiles of love adorn,--
Man's inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn!
Author: Robert Burns
Source: Man Was Made to Mourn
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Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine,
And all, save the spirit of man, is divine?
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: The Bride of Abydos (canto I, st. 1)
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Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because he is a man.
Author: Hans J. Morgenthau
Source: None
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The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are.
Author: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Source: None
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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.
Author: Mark Twain
Source: None
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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.
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
Source: None
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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.
Author: Daniel Webster
Source: None
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The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.
Author: Albert Schweitzer
Source: None
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Value of a man depends upon his courage; his veracity depends upon his self-respect and his chastity depends upon his sense of honor.
Author: Hazrat Ali (a.s)
Source: None
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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.
Author: John Stuart Mill
Source: None
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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....
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: None
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Man is a piece of the universe made alive.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None
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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.
Author: John Donne
Source: None
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Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.
Author: Alexander Hamilton
Source: None
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Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
Author: Albert Camus
Source: None
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