Men Quotes
The family is the association established by nature for the supply of men's everyday wants.
Men are divided between those who are as thrifty as if they would live forever, and those who are as extravagant as if they were going to die the next day.
But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.
Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely.
The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.
And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes family and a state.
All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves...
Man's best friend is one who wishes well to the object of his wish for his sake, even if no one is to know of it.
What is the highest of all goods achievable by action? ...both the general run of man and people of superior refinement say that it is happiness ...but with regard to what happiness is they differ.
What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess in common with others.
It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits
Coming into Los Angeles, bringing in a couple of keys. Don't touch my bags, if you please Mr. Customs man.
The existence of a world without God seems to me less absurd than the presence of a God, existing in all of his perfection, creating imperfect man in order to make him run the risk of Hell.
Every science touches art at some points—every art has its scientific side; the worst man of science is he who is never an artist, and the worst artist is he who is never a man of science.
Angkor is perhaps the greatest of Man's essays in rectangular architecture that has yet been brought to life.
Do not try to lead men who are unwilling to follow you; if their heart is not in it, you will never find the old spirit or the old courage.
Why should a man deliberately encircle his mind with needless prison walls. No man can reach highest excellence who puts limits to his own thought.
Women of vanquished races are usually very prone to wed with the men who have slaughtered their kindred in battle.
God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the "self-made men", who take the credit.
I had to wonder if men were so blinded by beauty that they would feel privileged to live their lives with an actual demon, so long as it was a beautiful demon.
No man who has not sat in the assemblies of men can know the light, odd and uncertain ways in which decisions are often arrived at.
In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked.
Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent.
Men cannot be treated as units in operations of political arithmetic because they behave like the symbols for zero and the infinite , which dislocate all mathematical operations.
High tax rates are followed by attempts of ingenious men to beat them as surely as surely as snow is followed by little boys on sleds.
Sometimes...it's better for a man just to walk away. But if you can't walk away? I guess that's when it's tough.
In America, any man who is not a reactionary in his views is open to the charge of alliance with the Red hell.
I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.
In their hearts women think that it is men's business to earn money and theirs to spend it.
You know, my brother won't walk out of a restaurant with me anymore because he doesn't want to be linked to me as my new 'mystery man.' Same with my close guy friends.
A rose gets its color and fragrance from the root, and man his virtue from his childhood.
A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.
One of my life goals is to be a best man. It's a baller position. You get drunk, you make speeches, and you make love to the prettiest bridesmaid, usually standing from behind.
In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
Let not a man glory in this, that he loves his country; let him rather glory in this, that he loves his kind...
This pleased Onyango, for to him knowledge was the source of all the white man's power, and he wanted to make sure that his son was as educated as any white man.