Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Man is man only as he makes life and nature happier to us. Emerson.

Man is more often injured than helped by the means he uses. Emerson.

Man is more than constitutions. Whittier.

Man is neither an angel nor a brute, and it is 30 his evil destiny if he aspires to be the former, to sink into the latter. Pascal.

Man is neither the vile nor the excellent being which he sometimes imagines himself to be. Disraeli.

Man is not a piece of clay to be moulded, but a plant to be cultivated. Garve.

Man is not as God, / But then most godlike, being most a man. Tennyson.

Man is not born to be free, and for the noble there is no fairer fortune than to serve a prince whom he honours. Goethe.

Man is not God, but hath God's end to serve, / 35 A master to obey, a course to take, / Somewhat to cast off, somewhat to become. Browning.

Man is not made to question, but adore. Young.