Men Quotes
Things do change. The only question is that since things are deteriorating so quickly, will society and man's habits change quickly enough?
During the century after Newton, it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by 1800, this had become entirely impracticable.
No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him.
The proper work of man, the grand drift of human life, is to follow reason, that noble spark kindled in us from heaven.
When a day passes, it is no longer there. What remains of it? Nothing more than a story. If stories weren't told or books weren't written, man would live like the beasts, only for the day.
The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.
Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.
To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius-the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.
A woman tries to get all she can out of a man, and a man tries to get all he can into a woman.
The soul that loves God has its rest in God and in God alone. In all the paths that men walk in in the world, they do not attain peace until they draw nigh to hope in God.
The Lord bears all the weaknesses of men, but He does not bear a man who is always murmuring, and does not leave Him without chastisement.
As a man may be eating all day, and for want of digestion is never nourished, so these endless readers may cram themselves in vain with intellectual food.
Ah, God! what trances of torments does that man endure who is consumed with one unachieved revengeful desire. He sleeps with clenched hands; and wakes with his own bloody nails in his palms.
The vulgar herd catches at the gross apparent fact, but the man of insight knows what lies on the surfaces does lie.
Everyone remembers his past with greater vividness as the present becomes more important. Dying men in their last delirium are supposed to see their whole life spread out before them.
Man is afraid to attain what he longs for, just as subconsciously he longs for what he is afraid of.
We see but the outside of a rich man's happiness; few consider him to be like the silkworm, that, when she seems to play, is at the very same time consuming herself.
I think it's very much a men's thing to be able to have that fantasy to kill the beast.
Man, you can come see me six or seven times in a row and you'll never see the same show twice, because I don't like to be robotic onstage. I like to perform for that particular audience.
He that has trained his children for heaven, rather than for earth- for God rather than for man- he is the parent who will be called wise at the last.
She had once said that she believed the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies was actually a ploy by men to get women to do more.
I admire the linear and decisive way a certain kind of man thinks, to my curlicue boundless overthinking.
A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not begun to comprehend the real nature of religion.
The theological systems of men and schools of men are determined always by the character of their ideal of Christ, the central fact of the Christian system.
It is better to be a self-made man,--filled up according to God's original pattern,--than to be half a man, made after some other man's pattern.
Almost everywhere men have become the particular things which their particular work has made them.
A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn.
There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin.
The idle man stands outside of God's plan, outside of the ordained scheme of things; and the truest self-respect, the noblest independence, and the most genuine dignity, are not to be found there.
A man in whom religion is an inspiration, who has surrendered his being to its power, who drinks it, breathes it, bathes in it, cannot speak otherwise than religiously.
Christian minds have been conformed to the modern spirit: the spirit, that is, that spawns great thoughts of man and leaves room for only small thoughts of God.
The American people rightly look to their military leaders to be not only skilled in the technical aspects of the profession of arms, but to be men of integrity
Congress should know how to levy taxes, and if it doesn't know how to collect them, then a man is a fool to pay the taxes.
It is ever so with the things that Men begin: there is a frost in Spring, or a blight in Summer, and they fail of their promise.
Gandalf: Three hundred lives of men I have walked this earth and now I have no time.
