Quotes with one-man

Quotes 4541 till 4560 of 10005.

• Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

  Source: A Life God Rewards Devotional (2002)

  ― Billy Graham
  American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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• Man has will, but woman has her way.

  ― Oliver Wendell Holmes
  American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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• Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.

  ― Sigmund Freud
  Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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• Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied, but ever restless and irregular, about this earth doth run and ride. He knows he hath a home, but scarce knows where; He says it is so far, that he has quite forgot how to go there

  ― Henry Vaughan
  Welsh poet, author, translator and physician (1621 - 1695)
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• Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.

  ― Edward Dahlberg
  American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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• Man identifies himself with earth or material. Spirit is strange to him: he is afraid of ghosts.

  ― Henry David Thoreau
  American writer (1817 - 1862)
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• 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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Subjects in these quotes:

• notwithstanding
• magnificent
• principally
• masterpiece
• determinism
• credulous

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