Men Quotes

Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry. If he has charged you with anything, you had better look it up.

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

The reason that men are so slow to confess their vices is because they have not yet abandoned them.

A man that has lost moral sense is like a man in battle with both of his legs shot off: he has nothing to stand on.

A man has no more religion than he acts out in his life.

Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it.

No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion.

Our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning.

The poor man with industry is happier than the rich man in idleness.

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

Some men are, in regard to ridicule, like tin-roofed buildings in regard to hail: all that hits them bounds rattling off; not a stone goes through.

No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth.

It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in.

Many a man has been dined out of his religion, and his politics, and his manhood, almost.

The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences.

It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.

Sharp men, like sharp needles, break easy, though they pierce quick.

Men are not put into this world to be everlastingly played on by the harping fingers of joy.

No cradle for an emperor's child was ever prepared with so much magnificence as this world has been made for man. But it is only his cradle.

A man who does not love praise is not a full man.

Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.

A man is a great bundle of tools. He is born into this life without the knowledge of how to use them. Education is the process of learning their use.

A man's true estate of power and riches is to be in himself; not in his dwelling or position or external relations, but in his own essential character.

A man without ambition is like a beautiful worm - it can creep, but it cannot fly.

He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.

Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.

When flowers are full of heaven-descended dews, they always hang their heads; but men hold theirs the higher the more they receive, getting proud as they get full.

A man should fear when he only enjoys what good he does publicly. Is it not the publicity rather than the charity he loves? Is it not vanity, rather than benevolence, that gives such charities?

A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging perfume from every little censer it holds up in the air.

Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled.

There are some men's souls that are so thin, so almost destitute of what is the true idea of soul, that were not the guardian angels so keen-sighted, they would altogether overlook them.

No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.

When a man has no longer any conception of excellence above his own, his voyage is done, he is dead,--dead in trespasses and sin of blear-eyed vanity.

When men enter into the state of marriage, they stand nearest to God.

Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

John Wesley quaintly observed that the road to heaven is a narrow path, not intended for wheels, and that to ride in a coach here and to go to heaven hereafter, was a happiness too much for man.

No man knows what he will do till the right temptation comes.

As we sit here and idly chat, there are woman, female human beings, rolling around in strange beds with strange men, and we are making money from that.

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

The illogical man is what advertising is after. This is why advertising is so anti-rational; this is why it aims at uprooting not only the rationality of man but his common sense.

There is but one world common for those who are awake, but when men are asleep, each turns away into a world of his own.

I'm the only man with a Dallas Cowboys Super Bowl ring who doesn't wear it. I'm a Green Bay Packer.

Man tends to treat all his opinions as principles.

A man never knows what a fool he is until he hears himself imitated by one.

A committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent.

Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humour: he will always use it in evidence against you.

No public man can be just a little crooked.

We cannot change ideas in the minds of men and races with machine guns or battle ships.

The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus every boy is a challenge to his elders.