M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Man’s wakeful presence first try to fix his tears.”
“Man’s will is strong, but it is arrogant to assume that our will is anything compared to the will of God. People kneel before their king because the king has a power that they don’t. Wise kings kneel before God because they know that he gave them their power and can take it away just as easy.”
Source: The Shadow Angel: Night of the Meta-Men
“Man's worth is more than his wage.”
“Man sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health.”
“Man sagt, dass alles letztendlich auf Liebe oder Angst zurückzuführen ist: jedes Gefühl, jede Tat, jeder Gedanke.”
Source: The Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing
“Man," said the Ghost, "if man you be in heart, not adamant, forbear that wicked cant until you discovered What the surplus is, and Where it is. Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die? It may be, that in the sight of Heaven, you are more worthless and less fit to live than millions like this poor man's child. Oh God! to hear the Insect on the leaf pronouncing on the too much life among his hungry brothers in the dust!”
Source: A Christmas Carol
“Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care.”
Source: The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
“Man schafft nicht alles. Niemand tut das. Deshalb sollte man sich über die Dinge freuen, zu denen man kommt.”
Source: Das Café am Rande der Welt
“Man screams from the depths of his soul; the whole era becomes a single, piercing shriek. Art also screams, into the deep darkness, screams for help, screams for the spirit. This is Expressionism.”
“Man searches constantly for identity, he thought as he trotted along the gravel path. He has no real proof of this existence except for the reaction of other people to that fact. So he listens very closely to what people say to one another about him, whether it's good or bad, because it indicates that he lives in the same world they do, and that all his fears about being invisible, impotent, lacking some mysterious dimension that other people have, are groundless.”
Source: A Fine and Private Place
“Man,see the yonder sun,it survives, yet human moldered beneath the sprouting grass; his glory is like a sunset;see the relics of the shattered palaces here.”
Source: The Bell Ringing Woman: A Blue Bell of Inspiration
“Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.”
“Man seeks answers from afar
Man has reached the moon reaching mars and distant planets
but has not even gone into the silence of his being”
“Man seeks his own good at the whole world's cost.”
Source: Poetical Works of Robert Browning: A soul's tragedy. Luria. Christmas-eve and easter-day. Men and women
“Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.”
“Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.”
“Man seeks to excuse himself of sin, but God seeks to convict him of it and to save him from it. Sin is no amusing toy—it is a terror to be shunned! Learn, then, what constitutes sin in the eyes of God!”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“Man seeks to learn, and man kills himself because of the loss of cohesion in his religious society; he does not kill himself because of his learning. It is certainly not the learning he acquires that disorganizes religion; but the desire for knowledge wakens because religion becomes disorganized.”
Source: Durkheim on Religion: A Selection of Readings with Bibliographies and Introductory Remarks
“Man seeks, in his manhood, not orders, not laws and peremptory dogmas, but counsel from one who is earnest in goodness and faithful in friendship, making man free.”
Source: Prayers from prison: prayers and poems
“Man seems merely dust postponed: the sublime as an encounter - pleasurable, intoxicating, even - with human weakness in the face of strength, age and size of the universe.”
Source: The Art of Travel
“Man seems not so much wicked as frail, unable to face pain, trouble and growing old. A good woman knows that nature is her enemy. Look at what it does to her.”
“Man seems the only growth that dwindles here.”
Source: Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Tobias Smollett, Samuel Johnson and William Shenstone
“Man seems to be a rickety poor sort of thing, any way you take him; a kind of British Museum of infirmities and inferiorities. He is always undergoing repairs. A machine that was as unreliable as he is would have no market.”
Source: What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings
“Man seems to be an animal whose capacity for lies is only equalled by his credulity; it does no good to let battalions of cats outof bags, to produce whole harems of naked facts, people eat the same three meals daily deception, and are always ready to turn with fury upon the purveyors of bagless cats and facts undraped. Probably their instinct is wise. Who knows?”
Source: The Fourteenth Chronicle: Letters and Diaries of John Dos Passos
“Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.”
“Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.”
Source: Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad
“Man sees your actions, but God your motives.”
“Man seldom questions the fact that ugliness and evil are to be found in the world. But he's never as ready to accept that life also offers unlimited beauty and potential for joy as well as endless opportunities for pleasure.”
Source: Love
“Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.”
Source: The Correspondence of Charles Darwin:
“Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.”
Source: Animal Farm and 1984
“Man shabara zhafira. Siapa yang bersabar akan beruntung. Jangan risaukan penderitaan hari ini, jalani saja dan lihatlah apa yang akan terjadi di depan. Karena yang kita tuju bukan sekarang, tapi ada yang lebih besar dan prinsipil, yaitu menjadi manusia yang telah menemukan misinya dalam hidup.”
Source: Negeri 5 Menara
“Man shall find his anchorage in self-recognition.”
“Man shall not live by bread alone.”
“Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.”
“Man sheds grief as his skin sheds rain.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“Man shoot at nothing, sure to hit it.”
“Man should be ever better than he seems.”
“Man should be judged by the deeds done to help his fellow man.”
“Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.”
“Man should bear in mind and ponder over the Greek admonition - Not Too Much, Not Too Little.”
“Man should become very aware when one third (1/3rd) of his life remains that ‘pictures’ of his next life will be taken now (next life forms will be decided).”
Source: Death: Before, During After...
“Man should develop his physical condition simultaneously with that of his mind.”
“Man should earnestly desire the well - being of all God's creations and pray that we may have the strength to do so.”
Source: The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation
“Man should ever look to his last day, and no one should be called happy before his funeral.
[Lat., Ultima semper
Expectanda dies homini est, dicique beatus
Ante obitum nemo et suprema funera debet.]”
“Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.”
“Man should make himself a lot of good karma.”
“Man should never work for the machine, machine should work for the man.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Man should not be in the service of society, society should be in the service of man. When man is in the service of society, you have a monster state, and that's what is threatening the world at this minute.”
Source: The Power of Myth
“Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.”
“Man should regard lower animals as being in the same dependent condition as minors under his government ... For a man to torture an animal whose life God has put into his hands, is a disgrace to his species.”