Men Quotes

Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.

What use is it for me to force my nature? / For my nature shall always remain / What it is and conquer what belongs to it, / However men may narrow its path.

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.

There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them.

The life of a Repo Man is always intense.

I don't believe in anti-anything. A man has to have a program; you have to be for something. Otherwise, you will never get anywhere.

This Nation was established by men who believed in God. ... You will see the evidence of this deep religious faith on every hand.

Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual.

What a great thing is understanding! It is priceless. No man can give greater pleasure to his fellow man than by understanding him.

Don't clock anybody, let them all clock you, Don't be down with anybody, let them all be down with you. Stay self-managed, self-kept, self-taught, Be your own man; don't be borrowed, don't be bought.

Our souls must become expanded by the contemplation of Nature's grandeur, before we can fully comprehend the greatness of man.

A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her.

It is as hard to get a man to stay at home after you've married him as it was to get him to go home before you married him.

A man goes to a psychiatrist. "Nobody listens to me!" The doctor says, "Next!"

The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.

Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man

You should not go to war for the privilege of withdrawal. You need to define your objective and the outcome, and it cannot be the removal of one man.

I think that Lee should have been hanged. It was all the worse that he was a good man and a fine character and acted conscientiously... It's always the good men who do the most harm in the world.

Poetry is the only life got, the only work done, the only pure product and free labor of man, performed only when he has put all the world under his feet, and conquered the last of his foes.

Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

I am wont to think that men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men. The former are so much the freer.

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.

Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.

The only true test of values, either of men or of things, is that of their ability to make the world a better place in which to live.

Every man is entitled to make a darn fool of himself at least once in a lifetime.

A generation ago there were a thousand men to every opportunity, while today there are a thousand opportunities to every man.

Rather a man with 50 per cent ability and 100 per cent character than a man with 100 per cent ability and 50 per cent character.

...the wise man knows that every experience is to be viewed as a blessing.

Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions.

When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

Blessed are the happiness-makers! Blessed are they that take away attritions, that remove friction, that make the courses of life smooth, and the intercourse of men gentle!

If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.

The universal cosmic process was not created by any god or man.

Men who are lovers of wisdom [i.e., philosophers] must be inquirers into many things.

Fishing is a... discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish.

The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.

Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.

I know Mother named me after a railroad man, but it's too late now, I'm afraid. Much, much too late.

With monuments as with men, position means everything.

No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.

The more a man denies himself, the more shall he obtain from God.

In peace, a wise man makes preparations for war.

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

An accomplished man to his fingertips.

Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or men.

Show me a man's closest companions and I can make a fairly accurate guess as to what sort of man he is, as well as what sort of man he is likely to become.

Power with God will be the gauge of real power with men.