Men Quotes

That profound firmness which enabler a man to regard difficulties but as evils to be surmounted, no matter what shape they may assume.

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

We should have all our communications with men, as in the presence of God; and with God, as in the presence of men.

To be a mere verbal critic is what no man of genius would be if he could; but to be a critic of true taste and feeling is what no man without genius could be if he would.

There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

Any one can give advice, such as it is, but only a wise man knows how to profit by it.

There's a strange something, which without a brain Fools feel, and which e'en wise men can't explain, Planted in man, to bind him to that earth, In dearest ties, from whence he drew his birth.

By different methods different men excel, but where is he who can do all things well?

Men the most infamous are fond of fame, And those who fear not guilt yet start at shame.

Amongst the sons of men how few are known Who dare be just to merit not their own.

I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit which is so remarkable in some clever men, for instance Huxley

Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.

Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.

The main conclusion here arrived at ... is that man is descended from some less highly organized form.

Man is developed from an ovule, about 125th of an inch in diameter, which differs in no respect from the ovules of other animals.

Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.

That man is best Who does his best And leaves the rest, Then-do not worry.

It is well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is and to think himself bound to uphold it and to claim for it the respect it deserves

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you

An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness... played the calm and virtuous old men.

Circumstances may accumulate so strongly even against an innocent man, that directed, sharpened, and pointed, they may slay him.

Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man?

It is my happy privilege to be able to stand here and tell you that if you elect me you will have elected a governor who has made no promises of preferment to any man or group.

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

It takes no genius to observe that a one-man band never gets very big

The selfish man cuts away the sand from under his own feet, he digs his own grave; and every time, from the beginning of the world until now, God Almighty pushes him into the grave and covers him up.

Faith is among men what gravity is among planets and suns.

Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.

It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in general.

A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.

Nothing that man ever invents will absolve him from the universal necessity of being good as God is good, righteous as God is righteous, and holy as God is holy.

I am not aware that payment, or even favors, however gracious, bind any man's soul and conscience in questions of highest morality and highest importance.

I hate the man who eats without knowing what he’s eating. I doubt his taste in more important things.

I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue.

I hate a man who swallows [his food], affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his taste in higher matters.

A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it.

The vices of some men are magnificent.

The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.

Is cruelty a moral judgment if it is fundamental to forms of life? Who is man to say that the workings of nature, and therefore of the divine plan of which he himself is part, are cruel?

What we must seek is a plan by which the men will receive high wages when the employers are receiving high prices for the product.

Men of vision. Oh, I love the fine names men give each other to hide their greed and lust for adventure.

Men of thought and men of action, clear the Way!

Old Tubal Cain was a man of might In the days when earth was young.

I take space to be the central fact to man born in America. I spell it large because it comes large here. Large and without mercy.

Talents give a man a superiority far more agreeable than that which proceeds from riches, birth, or employments, which are all external. Talents constitute our very essence.

Every man is fully satisfied that there is such a thing as truth, or he would not ask any question.

If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust.