Men Quotes
The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.
The best rules to form a young man are: to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is a fateful fatalistic apathy.
Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.
Every organization of men, be it social or political, ultimately relies on man's capacity for making promises and keeping them.
Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
One man alone can't defeat the forces of evil, but many good people coming together can.
Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.
O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, "Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!
Man must now assume the responsibility for his world. He can no longer shove it off on religious power.
The woman who creates and sustains a home, and under whose hands children grow up to be strong and pure men and women, is a creator second only to God.
Men don't achieve truth because they lack humility and love of truth. They won't criticize their own beliefs. Truth would overwhelm them.
To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.
A man who knows neither how to travel nor how to keep a journal has put together this travel journal. But at the moment of signing he is suddenly afraid. So he casts the first stone. Here.
Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.
Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters?
Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men that died for them.
Progress is not made by pulling off a series of stunts. Each step has to be regulated. A man cannot expect to progress without thinking.
The man who is intoxicated with life does not pass judgment, does not seek to come to a conclusion, does not impose his message on the world.
He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.
The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces which are played upon earth have been composed in heaven.
Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves.
I have seen many men work without praying, though I have never seen any good come out of it; but I have never seen a man pray without working.
A people's memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better.
Forgiving the men who killed my parents and brother was a process, a journey into deeper and deeper prayer.
Man is a disgusting thing. If you beat him he starts to scream, but if it is the other one who is beaten, then he constructs a theory.
No doubt men may easily think too little of God the Father, and God the Spirit, but no man ever thought too much of Christ.
God give us men. The time demands strong minds, great hearts, true faith and willing hands.
You've always had me ... and my heart. My soul. Everything. I wish it hadn't taken this long for me to man up.
If you're tired and pooped out all the time, do you have love and compassion in your heart for your fellow man? You don't even like yourself!
Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know the things he thinks he knows.