Men Quotes

No man will ever unfold the capacities of his own intellect who does not at least checker his life with solitude.

All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

I like the Bible folded between lids of cloth, or calfskin, or morocco, but I like it better when, in the shape of a man, it goes out into the world-a Bible illustrated.

Ignorance of the law is no good excuse, where every man is bound to take notice of the laws to which he is subject.

It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.

The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.

The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.

Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.

Excessive taxation . . . will carry reason & reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election.

A single zealot may commence prosecutor, and better men be his victims.

Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.

How do you expect to arrive at the end of your own journey if you take the road to another man's city?

Every man has a vocation to be someone: but he must understand clearly that in order to fulfill this vocation he can only be one person: himself.

Man did not enter society to be worse off, or to have fewer rights, but rather to have those rights better secured

The graceful pride of truth knows no extremes, and preserves, in every latitude of life, the right-angled character of man.

A man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - never likely to reach home port. To us comes the signal: chart your course, set your sail, position your rudder, and proceed.

Government cannot solve all our problems, even in normal times, much less during a catastrophe of nature that reminds man how little he is, despite all his big talk.

We may ascertain the worth of the human race, since for its sake God's Only-begotten Son became man, and thereby ennobled the nature that he took upon him.

...he was like a man who stands upon a hill above the town he had left, yet does not say 'The town is near,' but turns his eyes upon the distant soaring ranges.

Once you know about these things, you will also love them, because you will see that without a sense of the sacred, you are less than a man.

Men's indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.

I'm not a conventional leading man at all and have no wish to be.

If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs.

I suppose, yes, I've been guilty of provocation but it's also just common sense marketing - put a bottle of scent in a woman's cleavage, or between her thighs - and men will notice.

From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.

I'm just getting settled as a responsible man - but if you split the elephant into little mouthfuls it will be fine.

I would not educate Donald trump. He is a very educated man.

So a man jumps into a taxi and says "King Arthur's close" and the taxi driver says, "don't worry we'll lose him at the next lights".

As I look at President Bush, I think he will ultimately be judged as a man of extremely high character.

When you think of the number of men in the world who hate each other, why, when two men love each other, does the church split?

A woman can do anything a man can do today and then some. She can even have a child without a man.

Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.

Jesus is not the man at the top of the stairs; He is the man at the bottom, the friend of sinners, the savior of those in need of one. Which is all of us, all of the time.

They say it's the white man I should fear, But it's my own kind doin' all the killin' here.

[Wladimir] Klitschko is a different kettle of fish to Haye. He is a genuine man with an excellent team behind him and they are genuine fighting people.

Shape I may take, converse I may, but neither god nor Buddha am I, rather an insensate being whose heart thus differs from that of man.

To be with a man who hasn't tried every line, who hasn't broken up with a woman every which way you can break up with them, is kind of nice.

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus and a chair that's not obtained from Craigslist that keeps poking into his back.

As a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing,but does only and wholly what he must do.

Our Lord holds the keys to the doors of Christian service. You don't have to chase 'key men' around if you know the Keeper of the keys!

When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.

As incredible as it sounds, an unhappy man does not realize that happiness is better than unhappiness. Knowing only his own concealed anguish, he worships it, which is the same as self-worship.

God blesses man, not for having found but for having sought.

I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men tough that unknown thing?

Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud.

Nobody loves the light like the blind man.

But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal strength.

Man's search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.

Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.

It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.