Men Quotes

When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.

If you know how a man deals with his money, how he gets it, spends it, keeps it, shares it, you know one of the most important things about him.

The art of walking is at once suggestive of the dignity of man. Progressive motion alone implies power, but in almost every other instance it seems a power gained at the expense of self-possession.

Death, and darkness get you packing, Nothing now to man is lacking, All your triumphs now are ended, And what Adam marred, is mended.

I cannot believe any man can be perfectly well in body, who has much labor of the mind to perform.

Every man has a paradise around him till he sins, and the angel of an accusing conscience drives him from his Eden.

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.

There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans ... and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.

A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.

It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.

We go to the grave of a friend saying, "A man is dead," but angels throng about him saying, "A man is born."

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.

Mountains of gold would not seduce some men, yet flattery would break them down.

A man without ambition is worse than dough that has no yeast in it to raise it.

It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature.

Many men build as cathedrals are built-the part nearest the ground finished, but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete.

No man can tell another his faults so as to benefit him, unless he loves him.

God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.

A man's religion is himself. If he is right-minded toward God, he is religious; if the Lord Jesus Christ is his schoolmaster, then he is Christianly religious.

Ambassadors are honest men sent abroad to lie for their countries.

Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars.

A drunk man, staggering and mindless, must be led home by his son, so wet is his psyche... Water brings death to the psyche, as earth brings death to water... The psyche lusts to be wet.

God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man you try to conciliate him, because he may knock you down.

It [freedom] is a thing of the spirit. Men must be free to worship, to think, to hold opinions, to speak without fear. They must be free to challenge wrong and oppression with the surety of justice.

The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.

How those holy men of old could storm the battlements above! When there was no way to look but up, they lifted up their eyes to God who made the hills, with unshakable confidence.

Never educate a child to be a gentleman or lady alone, but to be a man, a woman.

Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.

There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.

There is no Champollion to decipher the Egypt of every man's and every being's face. Physiognomy, like every other human science,is but a passing fable.

Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves

It is hardly possible to estimate how many marriages fail to prosper or are actually ruined because the man lacks any inkling of the art of love.

A sparing tongue is the greatest treasure among men.

For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.

It is a hard thing for a man to be righteous, if the unrighteous man is to have the greater right.

If one will fix his heart in such a way and assist the world and its people, he will have the devotion of the men who see and hear him.

No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.

How delicate her feet who shuns the ground, Stepping a-tiptoe on the heads of men.

There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.

The man does better who runs from disaster than he who is caught by it.

Is he not sacred, even to the gods, the wandering man who comes in weariness?

No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born.

A man's life breath cannot come back again-- no raiders in force, no trading brings it back, once it slips through a man's clenched teeth.

A man can't hit a woman and stay a man. He becomes a loathsome thing, even to himself. But the woman who stays with such a man panders to his darkness. They both risk their souls.

No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.

A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.

Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her.

Man judges of nature in relation to itself; the angelic spirit judges of it in relation to heaven. In short, to the spirits everything speaks.