Men Quotes

Do not suffer any man to baptize or minister unto you, unless God has spoken unto him by the voice of his servants, and authorized him to minister in his name

A long-playing full shot is what always separates the men from the boys. Anybody can make movies with a pair of scissors and a two-inch lens.

I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.

When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

but the bravest man among us is afraid of himself

The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.

When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.

While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.

Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.

Our Lord's first obedience was to the will of his Father, not to the needs of men; the saving of men was the natural outcome of his obedience to the Father.

A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look round them.

It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way.

The whole earth is the brave man's country. [Lat., Omne solum forti patria est.]

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

Adde, quod ingénues didicisse fideliter artes Emollit mores, nec sinit esse fervos. To be instructed in the arts, softens the manners and makes men gentle.

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Man should ever look to his last day, and no one should be called happy before his funeral. [Lat., Ultima semper Expectanda dies homini est, dicique beatus Ante obitum nemo et suprema funera debet.]

Neglect of appearance becomes men.

I love the man that is modestly valiant; that stirs not till he most needs, and then to purpose. A continued patience I commend not.

A Christian man is a man who is within himself, who puts out good vibes.

I cannot experience your experience. You cannot experience my experience. We are both invisible men.

Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal.

Do we need more laws? God forbid! We need more righteousness, more freedom, and more godly men -- and fewer laws.

For every child that is born, it brings with it the hope that God is not yet disappointed with man.

To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. You must change man, not systems.

But Jesus has been depicted as a serious man. And Christians say he never laughed. Then what is the function of an Enlightened man? If Jesus cannot laugh, then who is going to laugh in this world?

The knowledgeable person lives with a question mark '?' and the man of awe and wonder lives with an exclamation mark.

The minds of men are at last aroused; reason looks out and justifies her own, and malice finds all her work is ruin.

Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.

Life is as the sea, art a ship in which man conquers life's crushing formlessness, reducing it to a course, a series of swells, tides and wind currents inscribed on a chart.

Always remember, Son, the best boss is the one who bosses the least. Whether it's cattle, or horses, or men; the least government is the best government.

Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.

Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man.

The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings

Every man I meet is in some way my superior...

I have only one doctrine, the infinitude of the private man.

A man of no conversation should smoke.

A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

If you love and serve man, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape remuneration.

To be a man is to be a nonconformist.

Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.

Men in all ways are better than they seem.

A skilful man reads his dreams for his selfknowledge; yet not the details, but the quality.

If a man carefully examine his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead. Such a creature is probably immortal.