Men Quotes

Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need.

That man is the most immortal who has done the most and the best praying. They are God heroes, God's saints, God's servants, God's vicegerents.

Your great employment is to bring the individual souls of men to Christ.

As we say in the sewer, time and tide wait for no man.

Language is one of the greatest gifts man has devised for himself. It ranks, alongside the discovery of fire and the wheel, as a major influence in making modern man what he is today.

At the punch-bowl's brink, let the thirsty think, what they say in Japan: first the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man!

In our educational institutions applied science may almost be described as a "no-man's land."

There is in man a conscience which outlives the sensations the sensations, resolutions, and emotions of the hour, and rises above them all.

For the obvious reason that nature - unadulterated and unimproved by man - is simply chaos. In fact, the camera proves that nature is crude and lacking in arrangement.

Titles are marks of honest men, and wise; The fool or knave that wears a title lies.

Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, "That all men are about to live."

Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.

The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.

The wild bird that flies so lone and far has somewhere its nest and brood. A little fluttering heart of love impels its wings, and points its course. There is nothing so solitary as a solitary man.

This is the essential evil of vice: it debases a man.

Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening.

Hill and valley, seas and constellations, are but stereotypes of divine ideas appealing to and answered by the living soul of man.

There have been men who could play delightful music on one string of the violin, but there never was a man who could produce the harmonies of heaven in his soul by a one-stringed virtue.

In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of cure.

It is the penalty of fame that a man must ever keep rising. "Get a reputation, and then go to bed," is the absurdest of all maxims. "Keep up a reputation or go to bed, "would be nearer the truth.

A great many men - some comparatively small men now - if put in the right position, would be Luthers and Columbuses.

Is there anything so wretched as to look at a man of fine abilities doing nothing?

A man of letters is often a man with two natures,--one a book nature, the other a human nature. These often clash sadly.

Character is the spiritual body of the person, and represents the individualization of vital experience, the conversion of unconscious things into self-conscious men.

We like the fine extravagance of that philosopher who declared that no man was as rich as all men ought to be.

Women aren't physically afraid of men; women are genetically afraid of men. It's happened for such a long time.

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

The average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one.

The average man plays to the gallery of his own self-esteem.

When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.

Put yourself in the other man's place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds.

The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel.

Men who sit back and pride themselves on their culture haven't any to speak of.

A woman fallen has no future; a man risen has no past.

I didn't want to get married. What I knew of most men was something I didn't want any part of. I just wanted to work on my career.

When you build a memorial, you build it not because the person wanted it, but for the future -- for generations who didn't know the man and didn't know the era in which he lived.

Man, by definition, is born a stranger: coming from nowhere, he is thrust into an alien world which existed before him-a world which didn't need him. And which will survive him.

Man walks the moon but his soul remains riveted to earth. Once upon a time it was the opposite.

What is man? Ally of God or simply his toy? His triumph or his fall?

I'm looking for men who can give me security.

Clergymen have much the same in their breeches as other men.

Most men I know rely on women to do all the literal dirty work.

A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless; That only men incredulous of despair, half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air beat upward to god's throne in loud access of shrieking and reproach

When the dust of death has choked a great man's voice, the common words he said turn oracles, the common thoughts he yoked like horses draw like griffins.

May the good God pardon all good men.

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease.

Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women's affairs!

To know how to say what other people only think, is what makes poets and sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think, makes men martyrs or reformers.