Men Quotes

I would not open windows into men's souls.

I detect more good than evil in humanity. Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes, And men grow better as the world grows old.

The reticent volcano keeps His never slumbering plan - Confided are his projects pink To no precarious man.

It was like a life-line to a sinking man. It seemed to bring hope where there was none. The generosity of it was beyond our belief.

Any man's life, told truly, is a novel.

If you can modify a cell, it's only a short step to modifying a mouse, and if you can modify a mouse, it's only a step to modifying a higher animal, even man.

To every man of us, Tobruk was a symbol of British resistance and we were now going to finish with it for good.

The care of God for us is a great thing, if a man believe it at heart: it plucks the burden of sorrow from him.

It would bring tears in your eyes to make you think of all those years, the type of brain-washing that this man will use in America to keep us separated from our own people.

Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God.

So long as man resists a situation, he will have it with him.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

The soul is not more important than the body. God made the whole man and the whole man is important.

It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men.

When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.

A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.

Man, there's another freedom out there, and it comes from somewhere else, and that somewhere else is the place I'm interested in.

When a wise man does not understand, he says: "I do not understand." The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance. They remain silent when a question could bring them wisdom.

Architecture is essentially Human; it is the Human spirit manifesting itself. For when a Man builds, there, you've got him; you know exactly what, who and how that Man is.

This unrequited love, to me it's nothing but a one-man cult/And cyanide in my styrofoam cup

I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.

sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.

Men who would letterspace lower case would shag sheep.

A little man often cast a long shadow.

Even if a fool lived with a wise man all his life, he would still not recognise the truth, like a wooden spoon cannot recognise the flavour of the soup.

If you have no money, men won't care for you, women won't love you; won't, that is, care for you or love you the last little bit that matters.

A man must know his destiny.

It is infinitely better to have a few good men than many indifferent ones.

Man is nothing: he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till God worketh in him to will and to do his good pleasure.

But as well may you, when urging a man up-hill with a heavy load upon his back, and with your lash also upon his back, tell him, that be has nothing to do either with the load or the lash.

Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.

Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was. A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been the boy.

The man who kills a man kills a man. The man who kills himself kills all men. As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants.

Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.

But for disloyalty to her husband a wife is censured among men, and ,in her next life she is born in the womb of a jackal and tormented by diseases, the punishment of her sin.

I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed.

The man who tries to be funny is lost. To lose one's naturalness is always to lose the sympathy of your audience.

Witness, eternal God! Oh, witness that, from this hour, I will do what one man can to drive out this curse of slavery from my land!

The common law of this state held man and wife to be one person, but that person was the husband.

It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.

There is very little difference between men and women in space.

A Polish man had a bandage on each ear. What happened? "I was ironing, and the phone rang!" "What about the other ear?" "Had to call the doctor!"

Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring.

O Music! language of the soul, Of love, of God to man; Bright beam from heaven thrilling, That lightens sorrow's weight.

Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.

And the men that were boys when I was a boy Shall sit and drink with me.

The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies.