Men Quotes
One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and those below us.
Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.
Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.
Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.
Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men.
The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.
If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.
To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when obtained, would be sufficient to deter a man from so vain a pursuit.
Cunning is only the mimic of discretion, and may pass upon weak men in the same manner as vivacity is often mistaken for wit, and gravity for wisdom.
This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.
An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.
Our secret thoughts are rarely heard except in secret. No man knows what conscience is until he understands what solitude can teach him concerning it.
We must judge religious movements, not by the men who make them, but by the men they make.
The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited.
Indeed, I am sometimes inclined to doubt whether some men consider youth as rational and intelligent beings, with minds capable of expansion, and talents formed for usefulness.
No man can receive the Holy Ghost without receiving revelations. The Holy Ghost is a revelator.
Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.
An abundance of some good things is perfectly compatible with the scarcity of others; that life is everywhere precarious, man everywhere small.
One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.
If a man is right, he can't be too radical; if he is wrong, he can't be too conservative.
Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if there wasn't anything but contentment in his world, man wouldn't be any more of a success than an angleworm is
Most men had rather say a smart thing than do a good one. John P. Kotter, Leading Change.
The man who gets bit twice by the same dog is better adapted for that kind of business than any other.
I never had a man come to me for advice yet, but what I soon discovered that he thought more of his own opinion than he did of mine.
If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
I've been the type of guy, I've always been very forthcoming with how I feel. And that it doesn't make you less of a man to like go and be like, 'This is how I feel about you. This is the truth.'
No consensus of men can make an error erroneous. We can only find or commit an error, not create it. When we commit an error, we say what was an error already.
We've turned into a nation of mothers to our men. I think it's a dreadful mistake that doesn't benefit anybody.
It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.
If a man goes into business with only the idea of making money, the chances are he won't.
The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.
It is more difficult to be an honorable man for a week than to be a hero for fifteen minutes.
