Men Quotes
When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?
Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man's art would also be wild or natural in a good sense.
I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark, though the witches are all hung.
The ears were made, not for such trivial uses as men are wont to suppose, but to hear celestial sounds.
Man needs to know but little more than a lobster in order to catch him in his traps.
Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.
Whatever has not come under the sway of man is wild. In this sense original and independent men are wild - not tamed and broken by society.
There are two classes of men called poets. The one cultivates life, the other art,... one satisfies hunger, the other gratifies the palate.
If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose.
As naturally as the oak bears an acorn and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done.
Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
Good poetry seems so simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.
Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties.
Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.
A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity him.
We are ashamed of our fear; for we know that a righteous man would not suspect danger nor incur any. Wherever a man feels fear, there is an avenger.
How rarely I meet with a man who can be free, even in thought! We all live according to rule. Some men are bedridden; all world-ridden.
How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.
I do not judge men by anything they can do. Their greatest deed is the impression they make on me.
Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.
I do not know at first what it is that harms me. The men and things of to-day are wont to be fairer and truer in to-morrow's memory.
But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.
Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society.
In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed.
Pity the man who has a character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is silent poor indeed.
There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.
There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man--the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.
There is nothing a Man of good Sense dreads so much in a Wife, as her having more Sense than himself.
Considering the unforeseen events of this world, we should be taught that no human condition should inspire men with absolute despair.
It is admirably remarked, by a most excellent writer, that zeal can no more hurry a man to act in direct opposition to itself than a rapid stream can carry a boat against its own current.
Why should I clutter my mind with general information when I have men around me who can supply any knowledge I need?
The time will come when man will know even what is going on in the other planets and perhaps be able to visit them.
The average man won't really do a day's work unless he is caught and cannot get out of it. There is plenty of work to do if people would do it.
There is a subtle danger in a man thinking that he is "fixed" for life. It indicates that the next jolt of the wheel of progress is going to fling him off.
The question who ought to be boss is like who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tunor.
You take all the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it.
