Men Quotes

Art, like love, excludes all competition and absorbs the man.

Were wisdom to be sold, she would give no price; every man is satisfied with the share he has from nature.

Parsimony is enough to make the master of the golden mines as poor as he that has nothing; for a man may be brought to a morsel of bread by parsimony as well as profusion.

The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues.You can't separate them. They're wedded.

Its awfully hard to be the son of a great man and also of a half-crazy woman.

No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth, That they might touch the hearts of men, And bring them back to heaven again.

Some must follow and some command, through all are made oclay.

Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.

There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.

A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.

Let every man come to God in his own way.

A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.

Some have supposed that the mosquito is of a devout turn, and never will partake of a meal without first saying grace. The devotions of some men are but a preface to blood-sucking.

All men have the capacity of knowing themselves and acting with moderation.

Men that love wisdom must be acquainted with very many things indeed.

To me one man is worth ten thousand if he is first-rate.

Next to prayer, Fishing is the most personal relationship of man.

It was play rather than work which enabled man to evolve his higher faculties - everything we mean by the word 'culture'.

And what is it, thought I, after all! It’s only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin.

There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke.

There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear - the city of London and the South Seas.

Each man's life represents a road toward himself, an attempt at such a road, the intimation of a path. No man has ever been entirely and completely himself.

The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.

If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own

Best is the man who thinks for himself.

For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike.

The sea drives truth into a man like salt.

Dead men would start and move toward me to learn of love.

Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.

Pray, for all men need the aid of the gods.

It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair.

Anger, which, far sweeter than trickling drops of honey, rises in the bosom of a man like smoke.

There are two things every woman really wants: one, she wants to know that a man really loves her, and two, that he isn't going to stop.

Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.

Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.

For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres.

It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.

The just man having a firm grasp of his intentions, neither the heated passions of his fellow men ordaining something awful, nor a tyrant staring him in the face, will shake in his convictions.

It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.

Keep one thing in view forever- the truth; and if you do this, though it may seem to lead you away from the opinion of men, it will assuredly conduct you to the throne of God.

The earth flourishes, or is overrun with noxious weeds and brambles, as we apply or withhold the cultivating hand. So fares it with the intellectual system of man.

Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.

I came here as a man of visions. I was sent here as a man of visions, like a second Noah. I'm not a Noah but I'm here as a second Noah. I'm here as a red light is in the street.

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

You are giving a little man a biscuit to eat, and you put a barrel of flour more taxes on top of his head to carry.

All advice can only be a product of the man who gives it.

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.