Men Quotes

God giving man life and taking it away is not nearly so bad as God taking away childhood and giving him life.

[T]he one indispensable ingredient of science fiction [is] a belief in a world being changed by man's intellect, a conviction that what was being written could really happen.

In its amplest meaning History includes every trace and vestige of everything that man has done or thought since first he appeared on the earth.

The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian.

It's very important for men to look downward, to the next generation

Remembering that the man who always fights one more round is never whipped.

Man is lonely mainly because he has been disconnected from the Divine presence.

When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flown at it to hold it back from flight.

Save the trees of Ireland for the future men of Ireland on the fair hills of Eire, O.

It seems to me you do not care what banality a man expresses so long as he expresses it in Irish.

The Irish are people who will never have leaders, for at the great moment they always desert them. They have produced one skeleton--Parnell--never a man.

General Taylor is, I have no doubt, a well-meaning old man. He is, however, uneducated, exceedingly ignorant of public affairs, and I should judge, of very ordinary capacity.

Tell the men to fire faster and not to give up the ship; fight her till she sinks.

My hunch is that probably men are doing more both outside the home and inside the home

As soon as you can say what you think and not what some other person has thought for you, you are on the way to being a remarkable man.

Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him.

Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night.

I have always found that the man whose second thoughts are good is worth watching.

Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men.

There never was an assembly of men, charged with a great and arduous trust, who were more pure in their motives, or more exclusively or anxiously devoted to the object committed to them.

The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man; and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees of activity, according to the different circumstances of civil society.

The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man.

We have seen the mere distinction of color made in the most enlightened period of time, a ground of the most oppressive dominion ever exercised by man over man.

I engaged in an adult consensual affair with another man.

Free men set themselves free.

The fact is, if a young man is naturally indolent, the spur of necessity will drive him but a very little way, while the having enough to live upon is often the means of preserving his self-respect.

It was not a mere man he was holding, but a giant; or a block of granite. The pull was unendurable. The pain unendurable.

I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.

What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings.

All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves.

Faith in God, faith in man, faith in work: this is the short formula in which we may sum up the teachings of the founders of New England,--a creed ample enough for this life and the next.

It is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, how patient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does them no injury, while the other may be their ruin.

It is not without reason that fame is awarded only after death. The cloud-dust of notoriety which follows and envelops the men who drive with the wind bewilders contemporary judgment.

Never did Poesy appear So full of heaven to me, as when I saw how it would pierce through pride and fear To the lives of coarsest men.

Be NOBLE! and the nobleness that liesIn other men, sleeping, but never dead,Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.

How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies.

The rich man's sons inherits cares; The bank may break, the factory burn, A breath may burst his bubble shares, And soft, white hands could hardly earn A living that would serve his turn.

The herald, earth-accredited, of heaven,--which when men hear, they think upon heaven's king, and run the items over of the account to which he is sure to call them.

A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find.

If a western is a good western, it gives you a sense of that world and some of the qualities those men had - their comradeship, loyalty, and physical courage.

Everyone agrees that our ultimate goal is to establish a free, open and democratic Iraqi government and bring our men and women in uniform home as soon as possible.

A man is a fabulous nuisance in space right now. He's not worth all the cost of putting him up there and keeping him comfortable and working.

Man is immortal till his work is done.

The cheap drama brings cause and effect, will power and action, once more into relation and gives a man the thrilling conviction that he may yet be master of his fate.

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.

One man's style must not be the rule of another's.

I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.

A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her.

That is what I like; that is what a young man ought to be. Whatever be his pursuits, his eagerness in them should know no moderation, and leave him no sense of fatigue.