Men Quotes

With words we govern men.

Whenever you see a man who is successful in society, try to discover what makes him pleasing, and if possible adopt his system.

A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.

He was one of these men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.

What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.

Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honors or of wealth.

It is the lot of man to suffer; it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as darkness and light divide the course of time.

The question is this - Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories.

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

The conduct of men depends upon their temperament, not upon a bunch of musty maxims.

It is the lot of man to suffer.

Fame has eagle wings, and yet she mounts not so high as man's desires.

Turtle makes all men equal.

The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man.

I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.

"As for that," said Waldenshare, "sensible men are all of the same religion." "Pray, what is that?" inquired the Prince. "Sensible men never tell."

I may fall here in the Senate chamber, but I will. never make any compromise with any such men.

I am amazed at the facility with which some men follow in the wake of slavery.

I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road.

An old young man, will be a young old man.

The honest Man takes Pains, and then enjoys Pleasures; the knave takes Pleasure, and then suffers Pains.

A man is sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through fear of being thought to have but little.

The wise man draws more advantage from his enemies than the fool from his friends

A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.

Men take more pains to mask than mend.

The poor man must walk to get meat for his stomach, the rich man to get a stomach to his meat.

Some men grow mad by studying much to know, But who grows mad by studying good to grow.

If any man flatters me, I'll flatter him again; tho' he were my best Friend.

Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows.

At the working man’s house, hunger looks in but dares not enter.

A man separated from his reflective belt is no man at all.

In the old legend the wise men finally boiled down the history of mortal affairs into a single phrase: 'This too will pass.'

Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.

Jowett, in his day, did probably more than any other single man to let some fresh air into the exhausted atmosphere of the [Oxford] common rooms, and to widen the intellectual horizons of the place.

All men are born equal, but quite a few eventually get over it.

Men who get on well with women are usually those who know how to get on without them.

No man is bound to be rich or great, - no, nor to be wise; but every man is bound to be honest.

Prayer among men is supposed a means to change the person to whom we pray; but prayer to God doth not change him, but fits us to receive the things prayed for.

Commanded love of all men indiscriminately is an obliteration of distinction between love and hate, and therefore is not love at all.

Religion is ... being as much like God as man can be.

Society can progress if men's labors show a profit - if they yield more than is put in. To produce at a loss must leave less for all to share.

The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.

Free men stick their necks out.

The free man is not he who defies the rules ... but he who, recognizing the compulsions inherent in his being, seeks rather to read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest each day's experience.

Nature intends that, at fixed periods, men should succeed each other by the instrumentality of death. We shall never outwit Nature; we shall die as usual.

There are three distinct comings of the Lord of which I know: His coming to men, His coming into men, and His coming against men.

A truly obedient man does not discriminate between one thing and another, since his only aim is to execute faithfully whatever may be assigned to him.

For it seems that long before the first enterprising man bent some twigs into a leaky roof, many animals were already accomplished builders.