Men Quotes
An old man said, We are not condemned because of our thoughts that enter us, but because we use our thoughts badly; our thoughts can cause us either to suffer shipwreck or to be crowned.
Homosexuality is against nature. Sexual expression is permitted only within marriage, between man and woman, male and female. Anything else is an abnormality and is against nature.
Remind yourself that all men assert that wisdom is the greatest good, but that there are few who strenuously seek out that greatest good.
There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.
For that which you mention concerning liberty of conscience, I meddle not with any man's conscience.
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel.
My teacher said once that every man faces seven enemies in his lifetime. Sickness, hunger, betrayal, envy, greed, old age, and then death.
Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.
In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself.
Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.
The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him.
Don't attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity's original, innate capabilities to become successful.
Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.
The sensual man conforms thoughts to things; the poet conforms things to his thoughts.
Show me a man or woman who cannot stand mysteries and I will show you a fool, a clever fool - perhaps - but a fool just the same.
It is the evil in man that makes democracy necessary, and man's belief in justice that makes democracy possible.
Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.
Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine. His head trails a wake through the galaxy of the absurd.
Friends of my youth, a last adieu! haply some day we meet again; Yet ne'er the self-same men shall meet; the years shall make us other men.
Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.
Pregnancy is a kind of miracle. Especially so in that it proves that a man and woman can conspire to force God to create a new soul.
Let no man write my epitaph. When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then, and not till then, let my epitaph be written.
Think of the egotism of a man who believes that an infinite being wants his praise!
In the end the question is: Who is to be master, man or his machines? As long as the control over technology rests primarily on economic calculation, the victor is not likely to be man.
All the great villainies of history, from the murder of Abel onward, have been perpetrated by sober men, chiefly by Teetotalers.
A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.