Men Quotes

The drive behind life has lost none of its power; proof that, impelled by that drive, man can build as well as destroy; that in his nature is more of Vishnu the Creator than of Siva the Destroyer.

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.

It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.

The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.

Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species.

In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god : everybody worships him and nobody does his will.

The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians.

Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse.

I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to find that men of ordinary capacity can learn Sanskrit in less time that it takes me to buy a German Dictionary

How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool.

A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing.

Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.

Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours.

I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.

Some persons, by hating vice too much, come to love men too little. Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred is the cowards revenge for being intimidated.

When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.

Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very reluctant to undertake the work of governing.

When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.

Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned?

In the arts of peace Man is a bungler.

Man, only - rash, refined, presumptuous man, Starts from his rank, and mars creation's plan.

There are battered husbands. Apparently this happens when the woman is real big, the man is very small, and they each drink a quart of whiskey a day.

There's this man who lives in the sky, and he has ten things he doesn't want you to do, and you'll burn for a long time if you do them. But he loves you.

A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure; the greater part of the men being six feet high.

Oh, Conscience! Conscience! man's most faithful friend, Him canst thou comfort, ease, relieve, defend; But if he will thy friendly checks forego, Thou art, oh! woe for me, his deadliest foe!

In general satire, every man perceives A slight attack, yet neither fears nor grieves.

That all men would be cowards if they dare, Some men we know have courage to declare.

When a man has been intemperate so long that shame no longer paints a blush upon his cheek, his liquor generally does it instead.

It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.

Some men give as little light in the world as a farthing tallow candle, and when they expire, leave as bad an odor behind them.

It seems no more than right that men should seize time by the forelock, for the rude old fellow, sooner or later, pulls all their hair out.

The school of life embodies a compulsory education that no man escapes.

I love not to be choked with other men's thoughts.

But what is opportunity to the man who can't use it?

What to one man is the virtue which he has sunk below the possibility of aspiring to, is to another the backsliding by which he forfeits his spiritual crown.

One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted.

But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.

A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.

Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his life.

There is no feeling, perhaps, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music,--that does not make a man sing or play the better.

Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority.

The vainest woman is never thoroughly conscious of her beauty till she is loved by the man who sets her own passion vibrating in return.

Man cannot choose his duties.

Those old stories of visions and dreams guiding men have their truth; we are saved by making the future present to ourselves.

One meal a day is enough for a lion, and it ought to be for a man.

The truth of it is that women are far more logical than men.

To some men popularity is always suspicious. Enjoying none themselves, they are prone to suspect the validity of those attainments which command it.