Men Quotes

I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power.

If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.

Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away. . . . A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons hiom.

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

Man never legislates,but destinies and accidents,happening in all sorts of ways,legislate in all sorts of ways.

Such, Echecrates, was the end of our comrade, who was, we may fairly say, of all those whom we knew in our time, the bravest and also the wisest and most upright man.

The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble.

For enemies carry about slander not in the form in which it took its rise . The scandal of men is everlasting; even then does it survive when you would suppose it to be dead.

Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.

It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.

Lying is a most disgraceful vice; it first despises God, and then fears men.

To do an evil action is base; to do a good action without incurring danger is common enough; but it is the part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks every thing.

Agesilaus being invited once to hear a man who admirably imitated the nightingale, he declined, saying he had heard the nightingale itself.

Cicero said loud-bawling orators were driven by their weakness to noise, as lame men to take horse.

I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace.

Humility saves man: pride makes him lose his way.

The mercy of Jesus is not just sentiment: indeed it is a force that gives life, that raises man up!

It is the duty of every man to uphold the dignity of every woman.

The sacraments infuse holiness into the terrain of man's humanity: they penetrate the soul and body, the femininity and masculinity of the personal subject, with the power of holiness.

God ordained for every man one and the same means of salvation.

Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own. This is one of the chief points of distinction between man and the animal creation.

Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.

Lust sullies every age of man, but quite extinguishes old age.

Common men should esteem learning as silver, noble men prize it as gold, and princes as jewels.

To avert disaster, we have not only to teach men to make things but to teach them to have complete moral control over what they make.

Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

Anyone who believes that men are the equal of women has never seen a man trying to wrap a Christmas present.

Wise man also fears a weak enemy.

Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.

There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace.

Every man has been made by God in order to acquire knowledge and contemplate.

Let a man use great reverence and manners to himself.

Violence is fun, man.

To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man. [Lat., In totum jurare, nisi ubi necesse est, gravi viro parum convenit.]

One man by delaying saved the state for us.

All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.

Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.

If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

I love it when a man cooks; it's one of those points that makes me adore a guy. I think it's so romantic and I feel cared for when a man cooks.

God said, 'When one man and one woman shine together, it makes the most perfect light.

Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there is.

Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.

Legislatures have no right to set up an inquisition and examine into the private opinions of men. Test-laws are useless and ineffectual, unjust and tyrannical.

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.

For some men, nothing is Written unless they Write it.

What's the point anyway - Of suffering, dying? It teaches us to live, boy. A man who does not struggle does not live, he survives.

The world makes way for the man with an idea.

The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.