Man Quotes

• "Of the king's creation you may be; but he who makes a count, ne'er made a man."
  By: Thomas Southerne (Southern), Sir Anthony Love (act II, sc. 1)
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• "Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this,--one dog does not change a bone with another."
  By: Adam Smith (1)
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• "Obedience, submission, discipline, courage--these are among the characteristics which make a man."
  By: Samuel Smiles
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• "Man is of soul and body, formed for deeds Of high resolve; on fancy's boldest wing."
  By: Percy Bysshe Shelley, Queen Mab (canto IV, l. 160)
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• "Nietzche . . . he was a confirmed Life Force worshipper. It was he who raked up the Superman, who is as old as Prometheus; and the 20th century will run after this newest of the old crazes when it gets tired of the world, the flesh, and your humble servant."
  By: George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (act III)
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• "I wonder men dare trust themselves with men."
  By: William Shakespeare, The Life of Timon of Athens (Apemantus at I, ii)
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• "This is the state of man: to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope; to-morrow blossoms And bears his blushing honours thick upon him; The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And, when he thinks, good easy man, fully surely His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root, And then he falls as I do."
  By: William Shakespeare, The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Wolsey at III, ii)
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• "Every man is odd."
  By: William Shakespeare, The History of Troilus and Cressida (Menelaus at IV, v)
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• "What the declined is He shall as soon read in the eyes of others As feel in his own fall; for men, like butterflies, Show not their mealy wings but to the summer, And not a man, for being simply man, Hath any honor, but honor for those honors That are without him, as place, riches, and favor, Prizes of accident as oft as merit; Which when they fall, as being slippery standers, The love that leaned on them as slippery too, Doth one pluck down another, and together Die in the fall."
  By: William Shakespeare, The History of Troilus and Cressida (Achilles at III, iii)
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• "A man, young lady! lady, such a man As all the world--why he's a man of wax."
  By: William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (Nurse at I, iii)
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• "Are you good men and true?"
  By: William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (Dogberry at III, iii)
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• "His life was gentle, and the elements So mixed in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!'"
  By: William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (Antony at V, v)
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• "What, shall one of us, That struck for the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers--shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large honors For so much trash as may be grasped thus?"
  By: William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (Brutus at IV, iii)
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• "Men at some time are masters of their fates."
  By: William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (Cassius at I, ii)
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• "Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not is our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings."
  By: William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (Cassius at I, ii)
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• "Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee."
  By: William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, ii)
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