Men Quotes

As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.

In the principle of equality I very clearly discern two tendencies; one leading the mind of every man to untried thoughts, the other prohibiting him from thinking at all.

I know of no other country where love of money has such a grip on men's hearts or where stronger scorn is expressed for the theory of permanent equality of property

The more alike men are, the weaker each feels in the face of all.

He [Napoleon] was as great as a man can be without morality.

The taste which men have for liberty and that which they feel for equality are, in fact, two different things...among democratic nations they are two unequal things.

An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.

The man who gives his own decisions priority over society is a criminal.

A man is robbed on the Stock Exchange, just as he is killed in a war, by people whom he never sees.

The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme peril .

Ah, when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro' all the circle of the golden year?

The sin That neither God nor man can well forgive.

Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new.

That man's the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away.

Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land; Ring in the Christ that is to be.

Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever.

This world was once a fluid haze of light, Till toward the centre set the starry tides, And eddied into suns, that wheeling cast The planets: then the monster, then the man.

What are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend?

I hold it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.

No man can describe to another convincingly wherein lies the magic of the woman who ensnares him.

When fate has allowed to any man more than one great gift, accident or necessity seems usually to contrive that one shall encumber and impede the other.

While three men hold together, the kingdoms are less by three.

Swords were given to men, that none might be Slaves, but such as know not how to use them.

He who loves best his fellow-man, is loving God the holiest way he can.

When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man.

The landlord of colonial days may not have been the greatest man in town, but he was certainly the best-known, often the most popular, and ever the most picturesque and cheerful figure.

The world is changing. It is no longer a world just for boys and men

Well that's actually happened to me a couple of times... but I really think that men, when it comes to falling in love, are less... I guess you could say less aggressive.

Well, I think it's because I'm an only daughter. I have four brothers, a bunch of guy cousins, and so it's like I was raised amongst men. So I've always gotten along really well with men.

Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.

Being alone for a woman is probably much more scary than for a man. I'm all for getting over our fears by facing them head-on.

[A]ny notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared. Leisure became entertainment.

Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war.

I wouldn't be surprised to see a lot of guns going off, you know, guns held by white men acting as vigilantes, cops who feel more free to open fire against African Americans.

I can tell when men are threatened by my height.

Men worry about childcare with their wallets, women feel it in their wombs.

Hey anyone who thinks a non-military–grade rappelling cable can support the weight of two grown men and a miniature donkey deserves to fall off a cliff.

Every man's disease is his personal property.

The photographer will never replace the painter; one is a man, the other a machine. Let us compare them no longer. (1848)

Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold.

Man, man, is thy brother, and thy father is God.

O God-Man present in this sacrament for me - what a comfort, what a privilege to know I kneel before God! And to think that this God loves me!... Mary, my mother, help me to love him in return

The heart of man is, so to speak, the paradise of God.

Mary being destined to negotiate peace between God and man, it was not proper that she should be an accomplice in the disobedience of Adam.

The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong. Nor can it pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men.

This will be the fourth time I've seen this film. I'm very proud of it and I think it's a great movie for women of any age. And almost every single man I've talked to has admitted to crying.

CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time remains to him.

Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.

The poor man's price of admittance to the favor of the rich is his self-respect.

A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.