Men Quotes
The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.
Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, a surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage-ground.
A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A crowd has a generalized stink. The public is odorless.
Man was so engineered by God that the presence of the Creator within the creature is indispensable to His humanity.
I love my fellow creatures - I do all the good I can - yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!
Eventually every man gotta face the problem of tryin' to figger if it's worthwhile to prove that he is himself.
Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind, the aggregate nature of man more continuously, and more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.
Genius awaits him who listens. The messages of genius are for the Soul of man. The senses of man comprehend them not.
We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.
When women are at the height of their beauty power and exercise it, we call it marriage. When men are at the height of their success power and exercise it, we call it a mid-life crisis.
You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.
You can believe that he was taught to love and respect all mankind - but to fear no man.
It is not the particular man in power that I oppose, but the power itself, which is unjust.
I knew instinctively that it was the very hardness of life in the desert which drew me back there - it was the same pull which takes men back to the polar ice, to high mountains, and to the sea.
Among men who are really free, every form of industry becomes more rapidly improved - all the arts flourish more gracefully - all the sciences extend their range.
The old metaphysical prejudice that man 'always thinks' has not yet entirely disappeared. I am myself inclined to hold that man really thinks very little and very seldom.
His heritage to his children wasn't words or possessions, but an unspoken treasure, the treasure of his example as a man and a father.
Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.
In every cry of every man, In every infant's cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear.
From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it.
Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.
Man does not drift into goodness...the chance port of an aimless voyage. He must fight ever for his destination.
The State cannot get a cent for any man without taking it from some other man, and this latter must be a man who has produced and saved it. This latter is the Forgotten Man
There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.
Success is not the measure of a man but a triumph over those who choose to hold him back.
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
The bending of men's hearts to believe and persevere are the supernatural fruits of God's eternal decree, and not the natural fruits of man's depraved and frail free-will.
A man's task is to find himself, and if he fails in this, it doesn't much matter what else he finds.
Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.
There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distill it out.
It is the very error of the moon; She comes more nearer earth than she was wont, And makes men mad.
Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured.
If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion.
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is it not in mercy then that sorrow is allotted unto us?
A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
