Man Quotes for Whatsapp and Facebook Status
Man is not merely an evolution but rather a revolution.
G. K. Chesterton
Man is the genuine offspring of revolt.
Cowper
Without the man the moment is a lost opportunity;
Without the moment the man is a force inoperative.
Sri Aurobindo
One definition of man is “an intelligence served by organs.”
Emerson
Man is a little soul carrying around a corpse.
Epictetus
Man is Nature’s sole mistake.
Gilbert
Man is a machine into which we put what we call food and produce what we call thought.
Ingersoll
Man is a reasoning animal (Rational animal est homo).
Seneca
Man was made by the Gods for them to toy and play-with.
Plato
Man is the most intelligent of animals—and the most silly.
Diogenes
What is a man
If his chief good, and market of his time,
Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more.
Shakespeare
The only laughing animal is man.
William Whitehead
What is man? A foolish baby;
Vainly strives, and fights, and frets;
Demanding all, deserving nothing,
One small grave is all he gets.
Thomas Carlyle
They are but children, too; though they have gray hairs, they are, indeed, children of a larger size.
Seneca
Man is a restless thing; still vain and wild,
Lives beyond sixty, nor outgrows the child.
Isaac Watts
Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
Hawthorne
There’s no trust,
No faith, no honesty in men; all perjured,
All for sworn, all naught, all dissemblers.
Shakespeare
However we brave it out, we men are a little bread.
Tennyson
O how contemptible a thing is man unless he can raise himself above humanity.
Seneca
How weak and yet how vain a thing is man,
Mean what he will, endeavour what he can!
John Sheffield
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
Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.
George Washington
What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.
Confucius
Of all beasts the man-beast is the worst;
To others, and himself, the cruellest foe.
Richard flatter
Man’s that savage beast, whose mind,
From reason to self-love declin’d
Delights to prey upon his kind.
Sir John Denham
Man is no man, but a wolf. (Lupus est homo, non homo.)
Plautus
And cruel death is always near,
So frail a thing is man.
Unknown
Man being in honour abideth not; he is like the beasts that perish.
Old Testament
All the windy ways of men
Are but dust that rises up,
And is lightly laid again.
Tennyson
For men on earth ’tis best never to be born at all; or being born, to pass through the gates of Hades with all speed.
Homer
The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed, and hopes that have been disappointed.
Samuel Johnson
Whome’er thou shalt see wretched, know him man. (Quemcumque miserum videris, hominem scias.)
Seneca
Man’s conclusions are reached by toil.
Woman arrives at the same by sympathy.
Emerson
Men work and think, but women feel.
Christina Rossetti
Woman’s dearest delight is to would Man’s self-conceit, though Man’s dearest delight is to gratify hers.
Bernard Shaw
If women were humbler, men would be honester.
Sir John Vanbrugh
All the reasoning of men is not worth one sentiment of women.
Voltaire
Women are never disarmed by compliments.
Men always are.
Oscar Wilde
Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
Oscar Wilde
I like men who have a future, and women who have a past.
Oscar Wilde
