Men Quotes

The bounds of a man's knowledge are easily concealed, if he has but prudence.

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.

Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.

Pretty much all law consists in forbidding men to do something that they want to do.

From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And ev'n with Paradise devise the snake; For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blackened - Man's forgiveness give and take!

Every time a man puts a new idea across, he faces a dozen men who thought of it before he did. But they only thought of it.

This also is a part of the teaching of the Church, that there are certain angels of God, and certain good influences, which are His servants in accomplishing the salvation of men.

You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.

The moment man cuts himself off from living connection with the human race and its needs, he begins to die from poor circulation.

No man fails who does his best.

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders. Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it.

It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming.

The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.

When Jesus Christ shed his blood on the cross, it was not the blood of a martyr; or the blood of one man for another; it was the life of God poured out to redeem the world.

There is always one fact more in every man's case about which we know nothing.

I don't hold it against the men who beat me because undoubtedly there are some ruffians of every nationality and the English are not exceptions.

A man is himself important precisely in proportion that all things seem important to him.

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Money nowadays is money; money brings office; money gains friends; everywhere the poor man is down. [Lat., In pretio pretium nunc est; dat census honores, Census amicitias; pauper ubique jacet.]

The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living.

When a man ain't got no ideas of his own, he'd ought to be kind o' careful who he borrows 'em from.

It was neither preaching nor praying that made a better man of me, but one or two people who believed in me better than I deserved, and I hated to disappoint them.

The man or woman at home who prays often has as much to do with the effectiveness of the missionary on the field, and consequently with the results of his or her labors, as the missionary.

Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate 'comprehensivity.

The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.

When our universe is in harmony with man, the eternal, we know it as truth, we feel it as beauty.

Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world.

My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.

A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.

We have to change this whole earth into a tremendous festival, and it is possible because man brings all that is needed to transform this earth into a paradise.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.

Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential. Without it, he is not yet man. Without it, thought can never ripen into truth.

The world exists for the education of each man.

There is a kind of latent omniscience, not only in every man, but in every particle.

There are men too superior to be seen except by a few, as there are notes too high for the scale of most ears.

A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.

When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.

Ever the words of the gods resound; But the porches of man's ear seldom in this low life's round are unsealed, that he may hear.

He is a good man, who can receive a gift well. We are either glad or sorry at a gift, and both emotions are unbecoming.

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

Man is a piece of the universe made alive

There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.

Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize its the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the world?