Quotes about Man, page 25

Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!

Quote by Charles Dickens about man

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.

Quote by Charles Dickens about man

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

Quote by Charles Dickens about man

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

Quote by Charles Dickens about man

We know, Mr. Weller - we, who are men of the world - that a good uniform must work its way with the women, sooner or later.

Quote by Charles Dickens about man

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

Quote by Charles Dickens about man

When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then.

Quote by Placido Domingo about man

A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.

Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about man

Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.

Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about man

To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.

Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about man

As in the public sphere, there is ample evidence that women can be as physically aggressive behind closed doors as men.

Quote by Katherine Dunn about man

Asked why they wanted to fight, the young women said they enjoyed it, just as some men and boys do.

Quote by Katherine Dunn about man

Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal. And as with men, this capacity has expressed itself in acts from the brave to the brutal, the selfless to the senseless.

Quote by Katherine Dunn about man

The more potent, unasked question is how society at large reacts to eager, voluntary violence by females, and to the growing evidence that women can be just as aggressive as men.

Quote by Katherine Dunn about man

This is difficult because so many of us are convinced that women are incapable of aggression on the same scale as men - that women are physically too weak, or are inherently, biologically different in aggressive capacity, or are spiritually...

Quote by Katherine Dunn about man

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

Quote by Feodor Mihailovici Dostoievski about man

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Quote by Feodor Mihailovici Dostoievski about man

Innovators and men of genius have almost always been regarded as fools at the beginning (and very often at the end) of their careers.

Quote by Feodor Mihailovici Dostoievski about man

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

Quote by Feodor Mihailovici Dostoievski about man

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

Quote by Feodor Mihailovici Dostoievski about man