Men Quotes
A man is free in proportion to the measure of his virtues, and the extent to which he is free determines what his virtues can accomplish.
When I heard that Hitler had problems with flatulence, it's funny. What - does that make him a funny man? No. It means he had funny moments when his rear end was speaking louder than his mouth.
When we have communion with God in the doctrine we contend for-then shall we be garrisoned by the grace of God against all the assaults of men.
Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth.
Let not that man think he makes any progress in holiness who walks not over the bellies of his lusts. He who doth not kill sin in this way takes no steps toward his journey's end.
To kill sin is the work of living men; where men are dead (as all unbelievers, the best of them, are dead), sin is alive, and will live.
The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.
If you have one volcano in the world, that one volcano puts out more carbon dioxide than everything man puts out.
Calvin: I'm a genius, but I'm a misunderstood genius. Hobbes: What's misunderstood about you? Calvin: Nobody thinks I'm a genius. Corfu? It's just a poor man's Pensacola.
The Training which Makes Men Happiest in themselves ... also Makes Them Most Serviceable to Others
A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.
Religion is like the fashion, one man wears his doublet slashed, another lashed, another plain; but every man has a doublet; so every man has a religion. We differ about the trimming.
However the Southern man may have been master of the negro, there were compensatory processes whereby certain negroes were masters of their masters' children.
The camera need not be a cold mechanical device. Like the pen, it is as good as the man who uses it. It can be the extension of mind and heart.
I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.
One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter, "Beware. You will never get out of this world alive."
When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.
We know these men are professionals whose services are up for bid and whose bags are packed, and yet we call them our own and take personal, even civic pride in their accomplishments.
Of some calamity we can have no relief but from God alone; and what would men do, in such a case if it were not for God?
Take away God and religion, and men live to no purpose, without proposing any worthy end of life to themselves.
A little wit and a great deal of ill-nature will furnish a man for satire; but the greatest instance of wit is to commend well.
Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves.
No man's body is as strong as his appetites, but Heaven has corrected the boundlessness of his voluptuous desires by stinting his strength and contracting his capacities.
Some things will not bear much zeal; and the more earnest we are about them, the less we recommend ourselves to the approbation of sober and considerate men.
Of all parts of wisdom, the practice is the best. Socrates was esteemed the wisest man of his time because he turned his acquired knowledge into morality, and aimed at goodness more than greatness.
Surely modesty never hurt any cause; and the confidence of man seems to me to be much like the wrath of man.
When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast, and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood.
The gospel chargeth us with piety towards God, and justice and charity to men, and temperance and chastity in reference to ourselves.
Whether religion be true or false, it must be necessarily granted to be the only wise principle and safe hypothesis for a man to live and die by.
Many men are more faithful to their golf partners than to their wives and have stuck with them longer.
There are some women that don't do it for some men. That's why they turn out so many models.
Man studied birds for centuries, trying to learn how to make a machine to fly like them. He never did do the trick; his final success came when he broke away entirely and tried new methods.
Nothing can be more readily disproved than the old saw, "You can't keep a good man down." Most human societies have been beautifully organized to keep good men down.
That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.
The scientific study of Nature tends not only to correct and ennoble the intellectual conceptions of man; it serves also to ameliorate his physical condition.
The care of a wise and good man for his only son is inferior to the regard of the great Parent of the universe for his creatures.
Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's?
I often say if men were meant to fly we would have been born with either feathers and wings or at the very least parachutes that pop out of our butts.
Women rule the world. It's not really worth fighting because they know what they're doing. Ask Napoleon. Ask Adam. Ask Richard Burton or Richie Sambora. Many a man has crumbled.
Someone once said "Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man, and let history make its own judgements."
So what's the most atrocious thing you've seen?" He waved his hand: "Man, of course!
It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery
