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Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to. – Mark Twain
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. – Samuel Butler
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. – Samuel Butler
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
Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he _becomes_ polite. – Jean Kerr
Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed the only animal that is never satisfied. – Henry George
Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied. – Henry George
Man is the only animal with the powers of laughter, a privilege which was not bestowed on him for nothing. Let us then laugh while we may, no matter how broad the laugh may be, and despite of what the poet says about ?the loud laugh that speaks the vacant mind.? The mind should occasionally be vacant, as the land should sometimes lie fallow, and for precisely the same reason. – Egerton Smith
Man is the only creature on earth that can create his own environment. This is because he is the privileged creation of the Great Creator. – Werner Saunders
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. – Albert Camus
Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible. – Eric Hoffer
Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being. – Blaise Pascal, Pensees(II,72)
Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born. – Fyodor Dostoevsky, "The Brothers Karamazov"
Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them. – Epictetus
Man is what he believes. – Anton Chekhov
Man is what he eats. – Ludwig Feuerbach
Man lowers his head and lunges into civilization, forgetting the days of his infancy when he sought truth in a snowflake or a stick. Man forgets the wisdom of the child. – Jack Kerouac
Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding. – Jacob Brownowski
Man may be considered as a superior species of animal who produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives. – Hippilyte Taine
Man merely discovers' he never can and never will invent. – Kahlil Gibran
Man must be able to think freely and he must be able to express his thoughts freely! He who is against this is not only fascist and primitive but at the same time is a very great coward also! Only the brave and the honourable men are never afraid of freedom of thought and freedom of expression of ideas! Just like the cockroaches do not like the light, evil minds also do not like the freedom of thoughts! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Man must be happy, as happy as a poor child cheerfully playing with his poor toy! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Man must behave like a lighthouse; he must shine day and night for the goodness of everyman. – Mehmet Murat ildan
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Man must have fires in his life: Fire of love; fire of work; fire of doing kindness... Without fires, man is just a cold rock! – Mehmet Murat ildan

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