Men Quotes

The greatest act of faith takes place when a man finally decides that he is not God.

Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.

Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.

Man believes himself always greater than he is, and is esteemed less than he is worth.

Man is a simple being, and however rich, varied, and unfathomable he may be, the cycle of his situations is soon run through.

Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him! [Ger., Du bist noch nicht der Mann den Teufel festzuhalten.

Astronomy would not provide me with bread if men did not entertain hopes of reading the future in the heavens.

We must not then depend alone upon the love of liberty in the soul of man for its preservation.

I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize man than any other nation.

Did you ever see a portrait of a great man without perceiving strong traits of pain and anxiety?

Individuals have conquered themselves. Nations and large bodies of men, never.

You can't be a part-time man of principle.

Fit men walking around and bathing, it would be just like being in Ancient Rome [on a footballers dressing room

In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.

A man must pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra often had to be subsidized.

All men are loyal, but their objects of allegiance are at best approximate.

Lovers of Norfolk churches can never agree which is the best and I think one is either a Salle or a Cawston man.

I saw a man clothed with rags . . . a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back.

I am now a man of despair, rejected, abandoned, shut up in this iron cage from which there is no escape.

Care, mad to see a man sae happy, E'en drouned himsel amang the nappy.

Yet my great-grandfather was but a water-man, looking one way and rowing another: and I got most of my estate by the same occupation.

Breathes there a man, whose judgment clear Can others teach their course to steer, Yet run himself life's mad career Wild as the wave?

The fuel in the earth will be exhausted in a thousand or more years, and its mineral wealth, but man will find substitutes for these in the winds, the waves, the sun's heat, and so forth.

Culture means the perfect and equal development of man on all sides.

There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.

To be pure in heart is to take no delight in cunning, but converse sincerely with men, and express nothing, by word or look, which is not felt in the heart.

Men are idol factories.

There is no inconsistency in saying that God rewards good works, provided we understand that nevertheless men obtain eternal life gratuitously.

Not as men of science , not as critics , not as philosophers , but as little children , shall we enter into the kingdom of heaven .

Peter Norman's a man's man.

Way back in the '70s, I was approached to talk about the story I'd write for a Spider-Man movie. They also talked to me about Batman. I had to think about it, but that was way, way back when.

A man is what he does with his attention and mine is not for sale.

Each man dreams his own heaven.

For decades, the violence in the Middle East has claimed a multitude of innocent civilian victims: Men, women and children, Arab and Israeli.

The oceans are the planet's last great living wilderness, man's only remaining frontier on earth, and perhaps his last chance to produce himself a rational species.

When a man has accumulated a sum of money, accumulated it within the law, the Government has no right to share in its earnings.

There is a lot of amiable fantasy written about trout fishing, but the truth is that few men know much if anything about the habits of trout and little more about the manner of taking them.

I went over to the Charlestown Navy Yard yesterday and saw some big men of war, one over 100 guns.

The greater the man, the more he is soaked in the atmosphere of his time; only thus can he get a wide enough grasp of it to be able to change substantially the pattern of knowledge and action.

A man can be prevented from breaking into other persons' houses by shutting him up, but shutting him up may not alter his disposition to commit burglary.

When men think and believe in one set of symbols and act in ways which are contrary to their professed and conscious ideas, confusion and insincerity are bound to result.

I have always been a House of Commons man.

Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste.

Be more than man, or thou'rt less than an ant.

A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .

God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it and made fit for God.

In best understandings, sin began, Angels sinned first, then Devils, and then Man.

From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, Much pleasure, then from thee much more, must flow, And soonest our best men with thee do go, Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.

O how feeble is man's power, that if good fortune fall, cannot add another hour, nor a lost hour recall!