Men Quotes

Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?

Never put a man in the wrong. He will hold it against you forever.

If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children.

Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.

Wherever men do things, other men will arise who will explain to them how things should be done.

One of the evils of democracy is, you have to put up with the man you elect whether you want him or not.

Women are not the weak, frail little flowers that they are advertised. There has never been anything invented yet, including war, that a man would enter into, that a woman wouldn't, too.

Every time we have an election, we get in worse men and the country keeps right on going. Times have proven only one thing and that is you can't ruin this country even with politics.

A man who dies without adequate life insurance should have to come back and see the mess he created.

Asking Europe to disarm is like asking a man in Chicago to give up his life insurance.

One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.

I never bought a man who wasn't for sale.

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

If any foes of mine are there, I pardon every one: I hope that man and womankind will do the same by me.

Whatever a man seeks, honors, or exalts more than God is the god of his idolatry.

The real giants have always been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas.

You cannot sell a man who isn't listening; word of mouth is the best medium of all; and dullness won't sell your product, but neither will irrelevant brilliance.

Every man who is not an artist is a traitor to his own nature.

Angels are happier than men and devils, because they are not always prying after good and evil in one another, and eating the tree of knowledge for Satan's gratification.

Nothing is real beyond imaginative patterns men make of reality.

What is it men in women do require: The lineaments of gratified desire. What is it women do in men require: The lineaments of gratified desire.

Man was made for joy and woe, and when this we rightly know through the world we safely go. Joy and woe are woven fine, a clothing for the soul to bind.

The man who is successful is the man who is useful.

Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?

What can books of men that wive In a dragon-guarded land, Paintings of the dolphin-drawn Sea-nymphs in their pearly wagons Do, but awake a hope to live...?

Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

It is difficult to get the news from poetry, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.

So different, this man And this woman: A stream flowing In a field.

Win hearts, and you have all men's hands and purses.

I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.

If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.

O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?

For works of the mind really great there is no old age, no decrepitude. It is inconceivable that a time should come when Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, should not ring in the ears of civilized man.

Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.

A man is the sum of his misfortunes.

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

I decline to accept the end of man.

The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.

Make a better friend of every man with whom you come in contact

Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it.

The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already.

Most men remember obligations, but not often to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.

Who is the Forgotten Man? He is the clean, quiet, virtuous, domestic citizen, who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard of out of his little circle.

Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.

I deem it established, then, that the Constitution does not recognize property in man, but leaves that question, as between the states, to the law of nature and of nations.

But I deny that the Constitution recognizes property in man.

The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.

The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace.

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

I think his greatest fault is his failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done. This is a great weakness in any man.