Man Quotes

In the light of reincarnation life changes its aspect, for it becomes the school of the eternal Man within us, who seeks therein his development, the Man that was and is and shall be, for whom the hour will never strike.

You can display no greater wisdom than by resisting proposals for needless legislation. It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

Twenty-five hundred years ago it might have been said that man understood himself as well as any other part of the world. Today he is the thing he understands least.

Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.

Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.

The soul of man is divided into three parts, intelligence, reason, and passion. Intelligence and passion are possessed by other animals, but reason by man alone.

Ah, yes, divorce, from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man’s genitals through his wallet.

Here lies one who knew how to get around him, men who were cleverer than himself

I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.