Men Quotes

If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having.

Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them.

I learned that economics was not an exact science and that the most erudite men would analyze the economic ills of the world and derive a totally different conclusion.

Sickness sensitizes man for observation, like a photographic plate.

All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

Evil succeeds when good men do nothing

There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their lives.

Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not the occasional organs by which they act, and the transitory modes in which they appear.

The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man.

To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty.

No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.

The pride of men will not often suffer reason to have scope until it can be no longer of service.

Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery as by the extremes of prosperity.

Flattery is no more than what raises in a man's mind an idea of a preference which he has not.

I own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please.

Guilt was never a rational thing; it distorts all the faculties of the human mind, it perverts them, it leaves a man no longer in the free use of his reason, it puts him into confusion.

Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.

Men are egotists, and not all tolerant of one man's selfhood; they do not always deem the amities elective.

The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.

The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners.

Man's wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.

Why then should witless man so much misweene That nothing is but that which he hath seene?

How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.

I have seen men march to the wars, and then I have watched their homeward tread, and they brought back bodies of living men, But their eyes were cold and dead.

The proper direction of man's thought is not toward the creation of new laws for government, but toward the acceptance of every person's moral dignity.

I'm tired of hearing you men say that this and that and the other isn't woman's work. Any work is woman's work that a woman can do well.

What terrible fear causes Man to address the Void as Thou?

Man has never been the same since God died.

The most important person to thank is...my mother. She gave me four golden rules to live by: be a proud black man, take care of your family, make education a priority, and try to do the right thing.

Toil to some is happiness, and rest to others. This man can only breathe in crowds, and that man only in solitudes.

Grief alone can teach us what is man.

A man's heart must be very frivolous if the possession of fame rewards the labor to attain it. For the worst of reputation is that it is not palpable or present - we do not feel or see or taste it.

So as grave and learned men may doubt, without any imputation to them; for the most learned doubteth most, and the more ignorant for the most part are the more bold and peremptory.

For a man's house is his castle, et domus sua cuique tutissimum refugium [and one's home is the safest refuge to everyone].

I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.

The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.

Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.

Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.

Man owes his success to his creativity. No one doubts the need for it. It is most useful in good times and essential in bad.

The greatest inheritance that a man hath is the liberty of his person, for all others are accessory to it.

Man is too quick at forming conclusions.

So natural to man is the practice of violence that our indulgence allows the slightest provocation, the most disputable right, as a sufficient ground of national hostility.

That men should kill one another for want of somewhat else to do, which is the case of all volunteers in war, seems to be so horrible to humanity that there needs no divinity to control it.

Mathematics is man's own handiwork, subject only to the limitations imposed by the laws of thought.

Every man must be taken to be cognizant of the law, otherwise there is no saying to what extent the excuse of ignorance may not be Law carried. It would be urged in almost every case.

Prayer is God's plan to supply man's great and continuous need with God's great and continuous abundance.

Prayer in Jesus' name puts the crowning crown on God, because it glorifies Him through the Son and it pledges the Son to give to men 'whatsoever and anything' they shall ask.

Praying men must be strong in hope, and faith, and prayer.

In doing God's work, there is no substitute for praying. The men of prayer cannot be displaced with other kinds of men.