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Humanity Quotes - World Sayings for Engraving

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Humanity Quotes; Humans, Mankind & the World Sayings

"Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg."
-- Yugoslav Proverb

"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 universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know
suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours."
-- Bertrand Russell

"Man is harder than iron, stronger than
stone and more fragile than a rose."
-- Turkish Proverb

"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

"Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself."
-- Robert Ingersoll "The first human who hurled an insult instead
of a stone was the founder of civilization."
-- Sigmund Freud

"Culture is roughly anything we do and the monkeys don't."
-- Lord Raglan

"We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs."
-- Syrus

"There are too many people, and too few human beings."
-- Robert Zend

"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."
-- Confucius

"The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race."
-- Don Marquis

"We shall require a substantially new manner
of thinking if mankind is to survive."
-- Albert Einstein

"Men are cruel, but Man is kind."
-- Rabindranath Tagore "Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache."
-- Hungarian Proverb

"Why was man created on the last day? So that he can be told,
when pride possesses him: God created the gnat before thee."
-- The Talmud

"Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired."
-- Mark Twain

"What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance."
-- Henry Havelock Ellis

"Men! The only animal in the world to fear."
-- D. H. Lawrence "Man - a being in search of meaning."
-- Plato

"The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded."
-- Gustave Flaubert

"Nothing feebler does earth nurture than man, Of all things breathing and moving."
-- Homer, Odyssey

"Everyone is as God made him, and often a good deal worse."
-- Miguel de Cervantes

"Man is a strange animal, he doesn't like to read
the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it."
-- Adlai Stevenson

"Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless."
-- B. F. Skinner

"The human race is governed by its imagination."
-- Napoleon

"Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and
to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face."
-- Sydney Smith

"What we do for ourselves dies with us.
What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal."
-- Albert Pine

"I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show
me a generic character... by which to distinguish between
Man and Ape. I myself most assuredly know of none."
-- Carl Linnaeus

"Nature does not deceive us; it is we who deceive ourselves."
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles."
-- Niccolo Machiavelli

"Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody
agrees that it is old enough to know better."
-- Author Unknown

"As long as people believe in absurdities
they will continue to commit atrocities."
-- Voltaire

"Evolution is individual - devolution is collective."
-- Martin H. Fischer "Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts."
-- David Herbert Lawrence

"Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but
nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment."
-- R. Buckminister Fuller

"We're animals. We're born like every other mammal
and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts."
-- Barbara Kingsolver

"Man will do many things to get himself loved;
he will do all things to get himself envied."
-- Mark Twain

"Our behavior is human with a sliver of animal,
our souls animal with a sliver of human."
-- Carrie Latet

"Opportunities fly by while we sit regretting
the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes
to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone."
-- Jerome K. Jerome

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