Men Quotes
That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature, but to the injustice of man.
No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.
The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
What is merit? The opinion one man entertains of another.
I was an economics major in college, and every summer after school, I would drive my car from California, from Claremont men's college at the time, to New York. And I worked on Wall Street.
The President so far has struck me as a man who is trying hard to keep his balance. He certainly has been very receptive to all my efforts in these directions.
Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.
My father was the funniest man I ever met. He made Redd Foxx look like an undertaker.
While men define themselves by deeds, women simply "are" beauty, grace, faith and goodness. Men tend to be rational and objective, women subjective, intuitive and emotional.
Certainly paradise, whatever, wherever it be, contains flaws. (Paradisical flaws, if you like.) If it did not, it would be incapable of drawing the hearts of men or angels.
The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.
The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a fool, the artist an escapist, the man of vision a criminal.
No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.
The life of man is made up of action and endurance; the life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in noble action or in patient perseverance.
How do I know that there is a God? In the same way that I know, on looking at the sand, when a man or beast has crossed the desert - by His footprints in the world around me.
Prayer is the act by which man, detaching himself from the embarrassments of sense and nature, ascends to the true level of his destiny.
Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.
I feel close to people like Jimi Hendrix because I connect with his music. Not the man but what he did.
To converse with historians is to keep good company; many of them were excellent men, and those who were not, have taken care to appear such in their writings.
There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel.
The man who becomes a critic by trade ceases, in reality, to be one at all.
Deeds not Words: I say so too! And yet I find it somehow true, A word may help a man in need, To nobler act and braver deed.
Man is the shuttle, to whose winding quest And passage through these looms God ordered motion, but ordained no rest.
Dear, beauteous death, the jewel of the just! Shining nowhere but in the dark; What mysteries do lie beyond thy dust, Could man outlook that mark!
Every man is in some sort a failure to himself. No one ever reaches the heights to which he aspires.
The true poet is a friendly man. He takes to his arms even cold and inanimate things, and rejoices in his heart.
A spirit of criticism, if indulged in, leads to a censoriousness of disposition that is destructive of all nobler feeling. The man who lives to find faults has a miserable mission.
Even the blackest of them all, the crow, Renders good service as your man-at-arms, Crushing the beetle in his coat of mail. And crying havoc on the slug and snail.
Mercy more becomes a magistrate than the vindictive wrath which men call justice.
A solid man of Boston; A comfortable man with dividends, And the first salmon and the first green peas.
Some poems are like the Centaurs--a mingling of man and beast, and begotten of Ixion on a cloud.
God is not dead; nor doth He sleep; ... The wrong shall fail, The right prevail, With peace on earth, good will to men.
The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but, if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that.
We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.
In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.
