"I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability."
— Oscar Wilde

"Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is."
— Albert Camus

"Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky (Notes from Underground: with White Nights, The Dreams of a Ridiculous Man, and selections from The House of the Dead)

"The earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed"
— Mahatma Gandhi

"You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals."
— Paul McCartney

"Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting."
— Aldous Huxley

"Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he is the Unreasoning Animal... In truth, man is incurably foolish. Simple things which other animals easily learn, he is incapable of learning. Among my experiments was this. In an hour I taught a cat and a dog to be friends. I put them in a cage. In another hour I taught them to be friends with a rabbit. In the course of two days I was able to add a fox, a goose, a squirrel and some doves. Finally a monkey. They lived together in peace; even affectionately.

Next, in another cage I confined an Irish Catholic from Tipperary, and as soon as he seemed tame I added a Scotch Presbyterian from Aberdeen. Next a Turk from Constantinople; a Greek Christian from Crete; an Armenian; a Methodist from the wilds of Arkansas; a Buddhist from China; a Brahman from Benares. Finally, a Salvation Army Colonel from Wapping. Then I stayed away for two whole days. When I came back to note results, the cage of Higher Animals was all right, but in the other there was but a chaos of gory odds and ends of turbans and fezzes and plaids and bones and flesh--not a specimen left alive. These Reasoning Animals had disagreed on a theological detail and carried the matter to a Higher Court."
— Mark Twain (Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings)

"Man is the cruelest animal."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.

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— Charles de Gaulle

"The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's."
— Mark Twain

"When a man cannot chose, he ceases to be a man."
— Anthony Burgess (A Clockwork Orange)

"The average dog is a nicer person than the average person."
— Andy Rooney

"I dare do all that may become a man;
Who dares do more, is none"
— William Shakespeare (Macbeth)

"To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"As Unto the bow the the cord is ,
So unto the man is woman;
Though she bends him, she obeys him,
Though she draws him , yet she follows:
Useless each without the other."
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so."
— Charles de Gaulle

"The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even as there is between trees of the same species.
Where in is the cause for anger, envy or discrimination?"
— Mahatma Gandhi

"If I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, 'Kurt is up in heaven now.' That's my favorite joke."
— Kurt Vonnegut

"God himself, finding he was in the midst of spirits and glory, because he was more intelligent, saw proper to institute laws whereby the rest could have a privilege to advance like himself. The relationship we have with God places us in a situation to advance in knowledge. He has power to institute laws to instruct the weaker intelligences, that they may be exalted with Himself, so that they might have one glory upon another, and all that knowledge, power, glory, and intelligence, which is requisite in order to save them in the world of spirits. (King Follett Discourse) "
— Joseph Smith Jr.

"A man learns with age, if he is lucky."
— Patricia Briggs (When Demons Walk)

"Hair on a man's chest is thought to denote strength. The gorilla is the most powerful of bipeds and has hair on every place on his body except for his chest."
— Anton Szandor LaVey

"To be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than the beast"
— Ruskin Bond

"The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves. "
— Marcel Duchamp

"Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols."
— John Calvin

"A man chases a woman until she catches him."
— American Proverb.

"Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle"
— Werner Herzog

"I should be content
to look at a mountain
for what it is
and not as a comment on my life."
— David Ignatow

"Everything in the world is beautiful, but Man only recognizes beauty if he sees it either seldom or from afar .... Listen, today we are gods! Our blue shadows are enormous! We move in a gigantic, joyful world!"
— Vladimir Nabokov (Strong Opinions)

"Everyone must come out of his Exile in his own way."
— Martin Buber

"Man is a spiritual being, a soul, and at some period of his life everyone is possessed with an irresistible desire to know his relationship to the Infinite. . . . There is something within him which urges him to rise above himself, to control his environment, to master the body and all things physical and live in a higher and more beautiful world.

True to the Faith, comp. Llewelyn R. McKay (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1966), p. 244
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— David O. McKay

"If you risk nothing you gain nothing"
— Bear Grylls

"The earth was blue but there was no god."
— Yuri Gagarin

"My family's dead. I'm going to see them now, Stark. It's okay. I want this."
— Yinsen

"Sometimes you gotta run before you can walk."
— Iron Man

"Soyons fermes, purs et fidèles ; au bout de nos peines, il y a la plus grande gloire du monde, celle des hommes qui n'ont pas cédé. [Let us be firm, pure and faithful; at the end of our sorrow, there is the greatest glory of the world, that of the men who did not give in.]"
— Charles de Gaulle