Men Quotes

God is on the lookout today for a man who will be quiet enough to get a message from Him, brave enough to preach it, and honest enough to live it.

Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended, for you can no more insult a mature man than you can paint the air.

You can only govern men by serving them.

In man's brain the impressions from outside are not merely registered; they produce concepts and ideas. They are the imprint of the external world upon the human brain.

The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

Never judge a man's actions until you know his motives

Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.

In general, and most especially with artists, I pay as much attention to the man who does the work, as to the work itself.

The prudent man does himself good; the virtuous one does it to other men.

Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.

A man without a woman is like a neck without a pain.

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.

There is no pain on this earth like seeing the same woman look at another man the way she once looked at you.

Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature?

The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Very old are the woods; And the buds that break Out of the brier's boughs, When March winds wake, So old with their beauty are-- Oh, no man knows Through what wild centuries Roves back the rose.

Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.

Black men of our day were never told, The sky's the limit. ... We could aspire to Joe Louis but never Henry Ford.

It is observed in the course of worldly things, that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues; and more men's fortunes overthrown thereby than by vices.

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.

But one man never laughed. He was a giant among men. He was Bobby Darin and he was my friend.

A man with a machine and inadequate culture is a pestilence.

Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life.

A Communist breaks because he must choose at last between irreconcilable opposites-God or Man, Soul or Mind, Freedom or Communism.

Life is not worth living for which a man is not prepared to die at any moment.

I have always believed that the Good Samaritan went across the road to the wounded man just because he wanted to.

If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any man who can persuasively promise security to all.

The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.

I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good.

In Europe public men do resign. But here it's a lost art. You have to impeach 'em.

One man's antinomy is another man's falsidical paradox, give or take a couple of thousand years.

America needs fewer men obsessed with erecting fences of hate, suspicion and name calling.

Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.

To me, all human behavior is unpredictable and, considering man's frailty... and... the ramshackle universe he functions in, it's... all irrational.

If you don't take it for granted that the other man will do his job, you're not an executive.

Every man has an atmosphere which is affecting every other.

A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.

Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. The sooner the discovery is made the better, as there is more time and power for taking advantage of it.

If we feel the least degradation in being amorous, or merry or hungry, or sleepy, we are so far bad animals & miserable men.

People are more afraid of the laws of Man than of God, because their punishment seems to be nearest.

If a man is to be a man, a free spirit unto himself, he must arm himself not only with weapons but with ideals and concepts he is willing to die for.

When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man.

Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.

A man's ethnic identity has more to do with a personal awareness than with geography.

The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

O, the difference of man and man! To thee a woman's services are due.

He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.

This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would go near to make a man look sad.

There's no trust, No faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.