Men Quotes

To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony.

We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others.

The belief in authority is the source of conscience; which is therefore not the voice of God in the heart of man, but the voice of some men in man.

Man is something that shall be overcome.... Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman -- a rope over an abyss... What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.

There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.

All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity.

No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

Your highest thought, however, ye shall have it commanded unto you by me - and it is this: man is something that is to be surpassed.

Iron necessity is a thing which in the course of history men come to see as neither iron nor necessary.

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what there is to love in man is that he is a going-over and a going-under.

Every great mind seeks to labor for eternity. All men are captivated by immediate advantages; great minds alone are excited by the prospect of distant good.

Wouldst thou know thyself, observe the actions of others. Wouldst thou other men know, look thou within thine own heart.

Man-like is it to fall into sin, Fiend-like is it to dwell therein; Christ-like is it for sin to grieve, God-like is it all sin to leave.

A man may stand for the justice of God, but a woman stands for His Mercy.

It is amazing what one ray of sunshine can do for a man!

When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man becomes a monster in his misery.

God is necessary, and therefore must exist...But I know that he does not and cannot exist...Don't you understand that a man with these two thoughts cannot go on living?

That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats you up.

I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I think my liver is diseased. Then again, I don't know a thing about my illness; I'm not even sure what hurts.

To a commonplace man of limited intellect, for instance, nothing is simpler than to imagine himself an original character, and to revel in that belief without the slightest misgiving.

Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.

If men gave birth, they'd be less inconsiderate.

A man should have two wives: one to love and one to sew on his buttons.

Its not that I like men sexually, just that I can admit when they are beautiful. But sexually I need a woman.

The mass of men lead lives of shallow happiness; the superior man exults in his gloom.

Satisfaction may be the goal of the common man, but it is the enemy of greatness.

The holy man is beyond time, he does not depend on any view nor subscribe to any sect; all current theories he understands, but he remains unattached to any of them.

The man who foolishly does me wrong, I will return to him the protection of my most ungrudging love; and the more evil comes from him, the more good shall go from me.

Conquer the angry man by love.

Man should make himself a lot of good karma.

The farther a man knows himself to be free from perfection, the nearer he is to it.

A man who makes a one-dollar profit on his expense account is dishonest. A man who loses five cents on one is a damned fool.

For thogh we slepe, or wake, or rome, or ryde, Ay fleeth the tyme; it nyl no man abyde.

For oute of olde feldys, as men sey, Comyth al this newe corn from yer to yere; And out of olde bokis, in good fey, Comyth al this newe science that men lere.

Man is an abyss, and I turn giddy when I look down into it.

It is strange that only extraordinary men make the discoveries, which later appear so easy and simple.

Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.

The woman's function is to fascinate men.

A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.

What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.

A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.

A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a person's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.

Away with the cant of 'Measures not men!'-the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along.

Some old women and men grow bitter with age; the more their teeth drop out, the more biting they get.

The best years of a man's life are after he is forty. A man at forty has ceased to hunt the moon.