Men Quotes
Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds.
The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed.
The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life, or of the work And if it take the second must refuse A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.
The most important thing is insight, that is to be - curious - to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire.
The effect of character is always to command consideration. We sport and toy and laugh with men or women who have none, but we never confide in them.
If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book.
The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.
The measure of any man's virtue is what he would do, if he had neither the laws nor public opinion, nor even his own prejudices, to control him.
Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.
For I had often said that the best argument I knew for an immortal life was the existence of a man who deserved one as well as Child did.
Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
He that has more Knowledge than Judgment, is made for another Man's use more than his own.
Religion itself is nothing else but Love to God and Man. He that lives in Love lives in God, says the Beloved Disciple: And to be sure a Man can live no where better.
The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.
To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.
Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? - Lady Macbeth
What a pretty thing man is when he goes in his doublet and hose and leaves off his wit!
When holy and devout religious men are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence; so sweet is zealous contemplation.
Ships are but boards, sailors but men; there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves, I mean pirates, and thenthere is the peril of waters, winds, and rocks.
His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!
Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief. while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.
When a man is drowning, it may be better for him to try to swim than to thrash around waiting for divine intervention.
Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, and then go straight forward.
Surely the experience of all good men confirms the proposition that without a due measure of private devotions the soul will grow lean.
As a single atom man is an enigma: as a whole he is a mathematical problem. As an individual he is a free agent, as a species the offspring of necessity.
In the beginning the gods did not at all reveal all things clearly to mortals, but by searching men in the course of time find them out better.
The Four Oaths: Never be late with respect to the way of the warrior; be useful to the lord; be respectful to your parents; get beyond love and grief: exist for the good of man.
I still look to music to heal and bind; I still think the musician can be a trusted object offering his fellow-man solace but also a reminder of human excellence.
There is also a schedule to fashion - the deadline is always set. So maybe the fashion business is a good business for me in that way because I'm basically lazy, man.