Quotations On Humankind III

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner. ~Mark Twain, "Reflections on Being the Delight of God."


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


I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated His ability. ~Oscar Wilde


O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other. ~Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution, vol. I, book II, chapter 1

Humanity is on the march, earth itself is left behind. ~David Ehrenfeld, The Arrogance of Humanism, 1978

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, The Devil's Dictionary


Monkeys are superior to men in this: When a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey. ~Malcolm de Chazal
God pulled an all-nighter on the sixth day. ~Author Unknown


Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings. ~Evan Esar


The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant is alone enough to upset Darwin. ~Henry Adams, Education, 1907


Man - a being in search of meaning. ~Plato
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, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. ~Albert Camus


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


Ocean: A body of water occupying two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills. ~Ambrose Bierce