Men Quotes

Every man should bear his own grievances rather than detract from the comforts of another.

The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. [Lat., Mature fieri senem, si diu velis esses senex.]

Choice is the essence of ethics: if there were no choice there would be no ethics, no good, no evil; good and evil have meaning only insofar as man is free to choose.

Culture and education have no bounds or limits; now man is in a phase in which he must decide for himself how far he can proceed in the culture that belongs to the whole of humanity.

Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions.

Dogs have never hurt me. Only men have.

It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere.

An animal will conquer others. A Spirit-filled man conquers himself - self-discipline , self-control.

Maybe people would be surprised to know that I listen to old Neil Diamond albums from time to time. The man rocks. I defy anyone to prove me wrong.

If ever there was a fish made to endure, it is the Atlantic cod... But it has among its predators - man, an openmouthed species greedier than cod.

Every man has his thorns, not of him, but in him, deep as bones.

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

The man who isn't a pessimist is a damned fool.

Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest.

I am not an economist. I am an honest man!

When that man wants something, he'll stop at nothing to get it. And I also believed in the good of him.

The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.

An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real person in touch with real things inspires terror in him.

Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator?

I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.

A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.

If men only believe enough in Christ they can commit adultery and murder a thousand times a day without periling their salvation.

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

I would rather be a man of conviction than a man of conformity

I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men, whose superiors it is our happiness to believe are not found on the executive calendar of any country.

What about this overcrowded land/How much more abuse from man can she stand?

When a man goes into the ring, he's going to war.

But no man has a monopoly of conscience.

Every law of matter or the body, supposed to govern man,is rendered null and void by the law of Life, God.

I was that overachieving, annoying kid who was always trying to win some contest or win the role. I look back on it now and I'm like, "Chill, man." Calm down.

America is indeed a revelation, though not quite the one that was planned. Given a clean slate, man, it was hoped, would write the future. Instead, he has written his past.

The counsels and decrees of God do not truckle to the frail and fickle will of man.

All men have the stars, but they are not the same things for different people.

For a water drop, the most beautiful house is a leaf; and for a man: The goodness! Let the goodness be your home you permanently live in!

That which a man acquires by contemplation he should spend in love.

To live is not to live for one's self; let us help one another.

Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.

The greatest gift given to man by God - is the ability to empathize.

Pride is a wound and vanity is the scab on it. One's life picks at the scab to open that wound again and again. Among men it seldom heals and often grows septic.

Moses was a forgotten man in the wilderness, But God had Moses right where he wanted him and met him at a burning bush.

It's not the man who pushes himself the hardest... it's the man who pushes himself the hardest after it gets painful.

The philosopher should be a man willing to listen to every suggestion,but determined to judge for himself.He should not be a respector of persons,but of things.Truth should be his primary object.

The only thing history teaches us, a wise man once said, is that history doesn’t teach us anything.

If men were equal in America, all these Poles and English and Czechs and blacks, then they were equal everywhere, and there was really no such thing as foreigner; there were only free men and slaves.

Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.

After four tortured years, more than 400 over life-sized figures, I felt as old and as weary as Jeremiah. I was only 37, yet friends did not recognize the old man I had become.

It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.

Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it.

Men shout to avoid listening to one another.