Men Quotes

The man who pets a lion may tame it, but the man who coddles the body makes it ravenous.

Now you must raise your children up in a world where that union of man and box turtle is on the same legal footing as man and wife

In all the good Greek of Plato I lack my roastbeef and potato. A better man was Aristotle, Pulling steady on the bottle.

God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath.

It's rather grisly, isnt it, how soon a living man becomes nothing more than a collection of stocks and bonds and debts and real estate?

Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.

Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.

So long as man remains no real threat to the Enemy, Satan's line to him is 'You're fine'. But after you do take sides, it becomes 'Your heart is bad and you know it'.

Set your expectations high; find men and women whose integrity and values you respect; get their agreement on a course of action; and give them your ultimate trust.

Democracy is the superior form of government, because it is based on a respect for man as a reasonable being.

First I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon.

Arms alone are not enough to keep the peace. It must be kept by men.

A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.

Fortune, men say, doth give too much to many, But yet she never gave enough to any.

Is God a man with two arms and legs like me? Does He have eyes, a head? Does He have bowels? Well I do, and that makes me more wonderful than He is!

The Constitution of the United States was made by white men, the citizens and representatives of twelve slaveholding and one non-slaveholding State; and it was made for white men.

Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.

And just then he realized in a flash that men have only this sad knowledge with which to heal themselves: when you lose life, you grow wise. But that is better than maiming life to hold it.

Boys go to Washington to be somebody...men go to do something.

In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal.

To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.

If Serena Williams played the men's circuit she'd be like 700 in the world.

Words . . . present a picture of the inward man.

Doubly happy, however, is the man to whom lofty mountain tops are within reach.

God alone can make a man a believer. Our part is to accept or reject his initiative.

Only let a man say that he will do something and a whole mechanism goes to work to stop him.

A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief.

Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.

Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to him for attacking most unsparingly our most cherished opinions.

But the dream is never forgotten, only put aside and never out of reach: Where once the dream connected boys with the world of men, now it reconnects men with the spirit of boys.

All men are mortal, and therefore all men are losers; our profoundest loyalty goes out to the failed.

Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.

Man is a means for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things.

That's why men need instant replays in sports. They've already forgotten what happened.

See, a good habit makes a child a man, Whereas a bad one makes a man a beast.

No circumstances can make it necessary for a man to burst in sunder all the ties of humanity.

It is a very good world to live in, To lend or to spend, or to live in; but to beg or to borrow, or to get a man's own, It is the very worst world that ever was known.

Ability is a poor man's wealth.

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Life is an error-making and an error-correctin g process, and nature in marking man's papers will grade him for wisdom as measured both by survival and by the quality of life of those who survive.

It is the duty of man to raise up man.

The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.

The hunter is the alert man. But this itself-life as complete alertness-is the attitude in which the animal exists in the jungle.

In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.

A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.

It is odd to consider the connection between despotism and barbarity, and how the making one person more than man makes the rest less.

When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.

Every man is to be considered in two capacities, the private and public; as designed to pursue his own interest, and likewise to contribute to the good of others.