Man Quotes

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Adam Smith Quote - It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it. Free

Adam Smith

It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.

Adam Smith Quote - Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life. Free

Adam Smith

Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life.

Adam Smith Quote - The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it. Free

Adam Smith

The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.

Abraham Lincoln Quote - I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. Free

Abraham Lincoln

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

Rabindranath Tagore Quote - God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man’s hands. Free

Rabindranath Tagore

God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man’s hands.

Adam Sandler Quote - In one day, I have times where I’m feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I’m the angriest man alive. My wife sees it. Free

Adam Sandler

In one day, I have times where I’m feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I’m the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.

Adam Smith Quote - The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy. Free

Adam Smith

The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy.

Aeschylus Quote - It’s not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath. Free

Aeschylus

It’s not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

Adam Smith Quote - The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals. Free

Adam Smith

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Adam Smith Quote - Wonder and not any expectation of advantage from its discoveries, is the first principle which prompts mankind to the study of Philosophy, of that science which pretends to lay open the concealed connections that unite the various appearances of nature. Free

Adam Smith

Wonder and not any expectation of advantage from its discoveries, is the first principle which prompts mankind to the study of Philosophy, of that science which pretends to lay open the concealed connections that unite the various appearances of nature.

Adam Smith Quote - Men desire to have some share in the management of public affairs chiefly on account of the importance which it gives them. Free

Adam Smith

Men desire to have some share in the management of public affairs chiefly on account of the importance which it gives them.

Adam Smith Quote - The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence. Free

Adam Smith

The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.

Adam Smith Quote - Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune. Free

Adam Smith

Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune.

Adam Smith Quote - A very poor man may be said in some sense to have a demand for a coach and six; he might like to have it; but his demand is not an effectual demand, as the commodity can never be brought to market in order to satisfy it. Free

Adam Smith

A very poor man may be said in some sense to have a demand for a coach and six; he might like to have it; but his demand is not an effectual demand, as the commodity can never be brought to market in order to satisfy it.

Adam Smith Quote - In the long-run the workman may be as necessary to his master as his master is to him, but the necessity is not so immediate. Free

Adam Smith

In the long-run the workman may be as necessary to his master as his master is to him, but the necessity is not so immediate.

Adam Smith Quote - Ask any rich man of common prudence to which of the two sorts of people he has lent the greater part of his stock, to those who, he thinks, will employ it profitably, or to those who will spend it idly, and he will laugh at you for proposing the question. Free

Adam Smith

Ask any rich man of common prudence to which of the two sorts of people he has lent the greater part of his stock, to those who, he thinks, will employ it profitably, or to those who will spend it idly, and he will laugh at you for proposing the question.

Rabindranath Tagore Quote - Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man. Free

Rabindranath Tagore

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

Aeschylus Quote - Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things. Free

Aeschylus

Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.

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