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Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.
A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.
The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.
The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.
The man forget not, though in rags he lies,
And know the mortal through a crown's disguise.
The man forget not, though in rags he lies,
And know the mortal through a crown's disguise.
The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men read more
The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.
The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures read more
The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.
Man,--whose heaven-erected face
The smiles of love adorn,--
Man's inhumanity to man
Makes countless read more
Man,--whose heaven-erected face
The smiles of love adorn,--
Man's inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn!
Man only,--rash, refined, presumptuous Man--
Starts from his rank, and mars Creation's plan!
Born the free heir read more
Man only,--rash, refined, presumptuous Man--
Starts from his rank, and mars Creation's plan!
Born the free heir of nature's wide domain,
To art's strict limits bounds his narrow'd reign;
Resigns his native rights for meaner things,
For Faith and Fetters, Laws and Priests and Kings.
The rank is but the guinea's stamp,
The man's the gowd for a' that.
The rank is but the guinea's stamp,
The man's the gowd for a' that.