Men Quotes
The peace for which every soul strives and which is the true nature of God and the utmost goal of a man is but the outcome of harmony.
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
A man wants a woman who will place him at the top of his priority list, not second but first. He wants to be the kingpin around which all other activities of her life revolve.
I grow more and more suspicious of the political powers that take men away from their work and set them shooting one another.
A man seldom thinks of marrying when he meets his ideal woman; he waits until he gets the marrying fever and then idealizes the first woman he happens to meet.
A bachelor has to have an inspiration for making love to a woman--a married man needs only an excuse.
And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.
There are more ways of killing a man's love than by strangling it to death, but that's the usual way.
Flattery is like wine, which exhilarates a man for a moment, but usually ends by going to his head and making him act foolishly.
In Plains, I saw Jimmy Carter as he really is - a nice, decent man... in terms of compassionate contribution to society, he certainly has proven to be our best past president.
In a blackout, a Polish man was stuck on an escalator for two hours. I asked him, "Why didn't you walk down?" He said, "because I was going up!"
A woman was taking a shower. There is a knock on the door. Who is it? Blind man! The woman opens the door. Where do you want these blinds, lady?
There is no power like oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears, Cicero by . . . swaying their passions. The influence of the one perished; that of the other continues to this day.
A man must be a born fool who voluntarily engages in controversy with Mr. Adams on a question of fact. I doubt whether he was ever mistaken in his life.
There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion.
That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.
Men talk about Bible miracles because there is no miracle in their lives. Cease to gnaw that crust. There is ripe fruit over your head.
It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience, but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.
Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.
Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
They were pleasant spring days, in which the winter of man's discontent was thawing as well as the earth, and the life that had lain torpid began to stretch itself.
Most men cry better than they speak. You get more nurture out of them by pinching than addressing them.
Most men I do not meet at all, for they seem not to have time; they are busy about their beans.
It is said that a rogue does not look you in the face, neither does an honest man look at you as if he had his reputation to establish.
What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life.
If anything ail a man, so that he does not perform his functions, if he have a pain in his bowels even,- for that is the seat of sympathy,-he forthwith sets about reforming the world.
A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!
Machines were devised not to do a man out of a job, but to take the heavy labor from man's back and place it on the broad back of the machine.
Since we do not take a man on his past history, we do not refuse him because of his past history. I never met a man who was thoroughly bad. There is always some good in him if he gets a chance.
The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will.
Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man.
Men are guided less by conscience than by glory; and yet the shortest way to glory is to be guided by conscience.
Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a man in whom good work has become a habit.
It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being, that our calamities can be borne in the manner which becomes a man.
If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.
The only difference between the Adamic man and the man of today is that the one was born to Paradise and the other has to create it.