Men Quotes
the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!
I'm all for ERA. I want to see women equal to men - not so damn superior like they've been.
I always have the idea in mind that when Botticelli was an old man nobody cared about him because he was out of fashion. Imagine, Botticelli was out of fashion!
A great cause of evil in the world is that men seldom think themselves criminal if they offer the same injustice to others that has been successfully practiced on themselves.
There are two things at which most men are grieved: when their faults are exposed, and when their virtues are concealed.
A really good style comes only when a man has become as good as he can be. Style is character. A good style cannot come from a bad undisciplined character.
Having women work with men is like having a grizzly bear work with salmon . . . dipped in honey.
Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.
Money, it has been said, is the cause of good things to a good man, of evil things to a bad man.
How then, is it natural that the mind of man, being so small as contained in such narrow spaces as a brain or a heart, should have room for all the vastness of sky and Universe?
There was no other God, religion, or lawful magistracy, than conscience, which teaches all men the precepts of Justice, to do no injury, to live honestly, and give everyone his due.
Society is responsible for its social organization, and if it can't provide the wherewithal for men to be gainfully employed then it should pay the penalty and give them welfare.
All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
Money at the service of life can be managed in the right way by cooperatives, on condition that it is a real cooperative where capital does not have command over men but men over capital.
No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.
Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
When you meet a man or woman who puts Jesus Christ first, knit that one to your soul.
Man is immortal; therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea; it can only find itself in changing forms
In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference.
The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,—a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.
The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.
Whatever happens, never forget that people would rather be led to perdition by a man, than to victory by a woman.
Man is by nature restless. When left too long in one place he will inevitably grow bored, unmotivated, and unproductive.
A man pleaser cannot be true to God, because he is a servant to the enemies of his service; the wind of a man's mouth will drive him about as the chaff, from any duty, and to any sin.
God takes men's hearty desires and will, instead of the deed, where they have not power to fulfill it; but he never took the bare deed instead of the will.
Human dignity begins to assert itself only at the point where man is distinguishable from the beast by pity for it.
The older theory was, marry an older man because they're more mature. But the new theory is men don't mature. Marry a younger one.
Man can be that which he wishes to be; form and substance, they are but shadows. The mind, the ego, the essence of the god-dream -- that is real, that is immortal.
Dada aimed to destroy the reasonable deceptions of man and recover the natural and unreasonable order.
To remain healthy a man must have some goal, some purpose in life that he can respect and be proud to work for.
The real miracle is a man who can walk with God every day ... When a person walks with God, he finds joy in the everyday things he does. Gradually his life begins to expand.
I'd like men to think about evolving into something more sophisticated, more seductive. To explore the possibility of an entirely new masculinity.
I have always felt that if a man gives you a solid gold key to his door he is entitled to the courtesy of a visit.
I bequeath all my property to my wife on the condition that she remarry immediately. Then there will be at least one man to regret my death.
War is elevating, because the individual disappears before the great conception of the state... What a perversion of morality to wish to abolish heroism among men!
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood between sincere men of all denominations.
We are not the worst moments of our lives. Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking.
At twenty, a man feels awfully aged and blasé; at thirty, almost senile; at forty, "not so old"; and at fifty, positively skittish.
A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of practiced coquetry, and the halo of one man's approval.
What a singular fact for an angel visitant to this earth to carry back in his note-book, that men were forbidden to expose their bodies under the severest penalties!