Quotes with man-in-the-street

Quotes 2301 till 2320 of 4652.

• Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

  ― Joseph De Maistre
  French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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• Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.

  ― Lily Tomlin
  American Comedienne (1939 - )
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• Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

  ― Henry Louis Mencken
  American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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• Man is a being in search of meaning.

  ― Plato
  Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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• Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

  ― Gaston Bachelard
  French scientist and philosopher (1884 - 1962)
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• Man is a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

  ― Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catch words.

  ― Robert Louis Stevenson
  Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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• Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

  ― Bertrand Russell
  English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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• Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.

  ― Charles Lamb
  English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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• Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

  ― Aristotle
  Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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• Man is a gregarious animal and much more so in his mind than in his body. A golden rule; judge men not by their opinions but by what their opinions have made of them.

  ― G. C. Lichtenberg
  German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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• Man is a long time coming.
  Man will yet win.
  Brother may yet line up with brother:
  This old anvil laughs at many broken hammers.
  There are men who can't be bought.

  Source: The People Will Live On (1936)

  ― Carl Sandburg
  American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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• Man is a make-believe animal - he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

  ― William Hazlitt
  English writer (1778 - 1830)
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• Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.

  ― G. C. Lichtenberg
  German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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• Man is a messenger who forgot the message.

  Source: The Zookeepers Wife (2008)

  ― Abraham Joshua Heschel
  Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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• Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.

  ― Edmond de Goncourt
  French writer and critic (1822 - 1896)
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• Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another hanging on to his coattails.

  ― Henry Louis Mencken
  American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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• Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

  ― Sir Thomas Browne
  British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
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• Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act according with the dictates of reason.

  ― Oscar Wilde
  Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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• Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

  ― Alexander Hamilton
  American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• notwithstanding
• masterpiece
• determinism
• polygamist
• reasonable
• coattails

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