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| The human species is made up of seven billion subspecies each consisting of one specimen. ~ Robert Brault |
| Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg. ~ Yugoslav Proverb |
| That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness. ~ Antonio Porchia, |
| Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. ~ Albert Camus |
| A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing. ~ Christopher Morley, |
| The true man walks the earth as the stars walk the heavens, grandly obedient to those laws which are implanted in his nature. ~ Lemuel K. Washburn, |
| The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours. ~ Bertrand Russell |
| Man is rated the highest animal, at least among all animals who returned the questionnaire. ~ Robert Brault |
| Ocean: A body of water occupying two-thirds of a world made for man – who has no gills. ~ Ambrose Bierce |
| Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose. ~ Turkish Proverb |
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| Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it. ~ John Steinbeck, |
| In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with humans it is the other way around: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar. ~ Anton Chekhov |
| Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs. ~ Aldous Huxley |
| We are perverse creatures and never satisfied. ~ Nan Fairbrother |
| Modern man is the missing link between apes and human beings. ~ Author Unknown |
| Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day. ~ Stephen Jay Gould, "Our Allotted Lifetimes," |
| Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah… didn’t miss the boat. ~ Mark Twain |
| There are too many people, and too few human beings. ~ Robert Zend |
| It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump. ~ David Ormsby Gore |
| Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. ~ George Bernard Shaw |
| The disastrous history of our species indicates the futility of all attempts at a diagnosis which do not take into account the possibility that homo sapiens is a victim of one of evolution’s countless mistakes. ~ Arthur Koestler, |
| Men! The only animal in the world to fear. ~ D.H. Lawrence |
| The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. ~ Don Marquis |
| Man embraces in his makeup all the natural orders; he’s a squid, a mollusk, a sucker and a buzzard; sometimes he’s a cerebrate. ~ Martin H. Fischer |
| Men are cruel, but Man is kind. ~ Rabindranath Tagore, |
| Humanity is on the march, earth itself is left behind. ~ David Ehrenfeld, |
| Human nature, if healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics; He makes no passionless saints. ~ Oswald Chambers |
| Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man’s head. ~ Ambrose Bierce, |
| Monkeys are superior to men in this: When a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey. ~ Malcolm de Chazal |
| It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing. ~ Mariane Moore, "A Grave," |