Mankind

Famous quotes containing the word mankind:

“One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.”
—Max Beerbohm (1872–1956)

“I wonder whether mankind could not get along without all these names, which keep increasing every day, and hour, and moment; till at the last the very air will be full of them; and even in a great plain, men will be breathing each other’s breath, owing to the vast multitude of words they use, that consume all the air, just as lamp-burners do gas.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“All mankind love a lover.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)