Men Quotes

Through the Young Men's Christian Association and principally in Australia and North America, as well as in South America, I came into contact with families of these countries.

You deny that man is really so prejudiced as I suppose him; talk to him then of some foreign country, ask him what religion he is of.

Man is incurably curious.

For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe?

In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilt for another's sin. There is no isolated sin.

Every man needs a place to go to.

But what are years, what are months!" he would exclaim. "Why count the days, when even one day is enough for man to know all happiness.

There is nothing more alluring to man than freedom of conscience, but neither is there anything more agonizing.

How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much stupider than what remains inside him?

Man is stupid, phenomenally stupid.

But what can a decent man speak of with most pleasure? Answer: Of himself. Well, so I will talk about myself.

"I love mankind," he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular."

I am a ridiculous man. They call me a madman now. That would be a distinct rise in my social position were it not that they still regard me as being as ridiculous as ever.

Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends.

Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact.

You cannot be a man of faith and live in a day. You do not live in a day if you are a man of faith.

Kids, man, they're way too honest. They're like mini-alcoholics.

Surround yourself with supportive people. All the negative people, man you have to push them aside.

A good man never fights with a woman.

For one who has not lived even a single lifetime, you are a wise man, Van Helsing.

The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying his wastes before releasing them.

Papa loved Mama, Mama loved men, Mama's in the graveyard, Papa's in the pen.

You know a one eyed woman, she do the best she can. She search the world over trying to find her a one eyed man.

A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.

Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.

No, he is not a ghost; he is a man of Heaven and earth, that is all.

why do you condemn a man whom you have never met, whom no one knows and about whom even you yourself know nothing?

Those who are ashamed of what they ought not to be ashamed; and are not ashamed of what they ought to be - such men, embracing erroneous views, enter the woeful path.

Full of love for all things in the world, practicing virtue, in order to benefit others, this man alone is happy.

If a man's thoughts are muddy, If he is reckless and full of deceit, How can he wear the yellow robe? Whoever is master of his own nature, Bright, clear and true, He may indeed wear the yellow robe.

If a man offend a harmless, pure, and innocent person, the evil falls back upon that fool, like light dust thrown up against the wind.

If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current - how can he help others across?

I love a man who loves his mama, which is one of the many reasons I'm crazy about Justin Timberlake.

Beat a man with what he doesn't know.

The man who has allowed his body to deteriorate cuts a pitiful figure - chest collapsed, stomach protruding.

Man is an historical animal, with a deep sense of his own past; and if he cannot integrate the past by a history explicit and true, he will integrate it by a history implicit and false.

Yet do not miss the moral, my good men. For Saint Paul says that all that’s written well Is written down some useful truth to tell. Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still.

Nowhere so busy a man as he there was And yet he seemed busier than he was.

The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.

A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.

Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.

Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.

That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.

With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.

If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.

The highest point to which a weak but experienced mind can rise is detecting the weakness of better men.

I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.

Prayer is the chief thing that man may present unto God.

Opportunity knocks once at every man's door and then keeps on knocking.