Sayings about Man:

The bulk of our species … are such as are not likely to be remembered a moment after their disappearance.
Joseph Addison
Man is the merriest species of the creation: all above and below him are serious.
Joseph Addison
There is the supreme and indissoluble consanguinity between men, of which the heathen poet saith we are all His generation.
Francis Bacon
We have certain demonstration from Egyptian mummies, and Roman urns and rings, and measures and edifices, and many other antiquities, that human stature has not diminished for above two thousand years.
Richard Bentley
We adore his undeserved mercy towards us that he made us chief of the visible creation.
Richard Bentley
Mauger all our regulations to prevent it, the simple name of “man,” applied properly, never fails to work a salutary effect.
Edmund Burke
A man’s a man for a’ that.
Robert Burns
And man, whose heaven-directed face
The smiles of love adorn;
Man’s inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn!
Robert Burns
That man of loneliness and mystery,
Scarce seen to smile, and seldom heard to sigh.
Lord Byron
He is compounded of two very different ingredients, spirit and matter; but how such unallied and disproportioned substances should act upon each other, no man’s learning yet could tell him.
Jeremy Collier
We put too much faith in systems, and look too little to men.
Benjamin Disraeli
A king, so good, so just, so great,
That at his birth the heavenly council paus’d,
And then at last cried out, This is a man!
John Dryden
The fancies of men are so immediately diversified by the individual crasis that every man owns something wherein none is like him.
Joseph Glanvill
The due contemplation of the human nature doth, by a necessary connection and chain of causes, carry us up to the unavoidable acknowledgment of the Deity; because it carries every thinking man to an original of every successive individual.
Sir Matthew Hale
In all our reasonings concerning men we must lay it down as a maxim that the greater part are moulded by circumstances.
Robert Hall
Man is not an organism; he is an intelligence served by organs.
Sir William Hamilton
Man proposeth, God disposeth.
George Herbert
Man doth purpose, but God doth dispose.
Thomas à Kempis
A combination of the ideas of a certain figure, with the powers of motion and reasoning joined to substance, make the ordinary idea of a man.
John Locke
The great difference in the motions of mankind is from the different use they put their faculties to.
John Locke
Man hath his daily work of body or mind appointed.
John Milton
He is the same man; so is every one here that you know: mankind is unamendable.
Alexander Pope
Man, only, mars kind Nature’s plan,
And turns the fierce pursuit on man.
Sir Walter Scott
Man delights not me, no, nor woman neither.
William Shakespeare
O, see the monstrousness of man
When he looks out in an ungrateful shape!
William Shakespeare
This was a man!
William Shakespeare
A proper man, as one shall see in a summer’s day.
William Shakespeare
What a piece of worke is a man! how Noble in Reason? how infinite in faculty? in forme and mouing how expresse and admirable? in Action, how like an Angel? in apprehension, how like a God? the beauty of the world, the Parragon of Animals.
William Shakspeare
As the calling dignifies the man, so the man much more advances his calling. As a garment, though it warms the body, has a return with an advantage, being much more warmed by it.
Robert South
Not the least transaction of sense and motion in man but philosophers are at a loss to comprehend.
Robert South
On examining how I, that could contribute nothing to mine own being, should be here, I come to ask the same question for my father, and so am led in a direct line to a first producer that must be more than man.
Sir John Suckling
Philosophers say that man is a microcosm, or little world, resembling in miniature every part of the great; and the body natural may be compared to the body politic.
Jonathan Swift
According to this equality wherein God hath placed all mankind with relation to himself, in all the relations between man and man there is a mutual dependence.
Jonathan Swift
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to the other.
Jonathan Swift
I am a man, nothing that is human do I think unbecoming in me.
Terence
That very substance which last week was grazing in the field, waving in the milk-pail, or growing in the garden, is now become part of the man.
Dr. Isaac Watts
The man of wisdom is the man of years.
Dr. Young
Inhumanity is caught from man—
From smiling man.
Dr. Young
Man’s revenge,
And endless inhumanities on man.
Dr. Young
O Thou who dost permit these ills to fall
For gracious ends, and would’st that men should mourn!
Dr. Young
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