Logo
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only a

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be. – William Hazlitt, The English Comic Writers, 1819

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Humankind
category

It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kavanagh, 1849

Category:
Humankind

I do not value any view of the universe into which man and the institutions of man enter very largely and absorb much of the attention. Man is but the place where I stand, and the prospect hence is infinite. – Henry David Thoreau, journal, 1852 April 2nd

Category:
Humankind

We are perverse creatures and never satisfied. – Nan Fairbrother

Category:
Humankind

Men are cruel, but Man is kind. – Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds, 1916

Category:
Humankind

Random Quotes

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor – over each other. – Thomas Jefferson

Category:
Religion

Were in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyones arguing over where theyre going to sit. – David Suzuki

Category:
car

Can it be that chance has made me one of those women so immersed in one man that, whether they are barren or not, they carry with them to the grave the shriveled innocence of an old maid? – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Category:
Infatuation

I turn a lot of stuff down – big, big movies, the kind I wouldnt want to go to the cinema to see. – Matthew Fox

Category:
movies