Men Quotes

Life is a problem; mortal man was made to solve the solemn problem right or wrong.

The imagination of a eunuch dwells more and longer upon the material of love than that of man or woman ... supplying, so far as he can, by speculation, the place of pleasures he can no longer enjoy.

Man does what he can, and God what he will.

Young men do not want to have to take a consent form and a lawyer on a date, just as young women have every right to go on a date and to say 'No', having it respected.

The great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than the furnace blast, is all in very deed for this -- that we manufacture everything there except men.

The constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others.

To yield reverence to another, to hold ourselves and our lives at his disposal, is not slavery; often, it is the noblest state in which a man can live in this world.

Multitudes think they like to do evil; yet no man ever really enjoyed doing evil since God made the world.

The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.

It is a matter of the simplest demonstration, that no man can be really appreciated but by his equal or superior.

How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty.

Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.

Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health, power, and pleasure.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

Whether we force the man's property from him by pinching his stomach, or pinching his fingers, makes some difference anatomically; morally, none whatsoever.

Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made great man.

The gambling supply house catalog is distinctly not the safest place to learn about cheating devices, beware of catalog men.

To succeed as a lawyer, a man must work like a horse and live like a hermit.

What? Men dodging this way for single bullets? What will you do when they open fire along the whole line? I am ashamed of you. They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance.

To preach long, loud, and Damnation, is the way to be cried up. We love a man that damns us, and we run after him again to save us.

Humility is a virtue all preach, none practise, and yet every body is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine for his servant, the laity for the clergy, and the clergy for the laity.

No man is the wiser for his learning

When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.

The trash and litter of nature disappears into the ground with the passing of each year, but man's litter has more permanence.

Men really need sea-monsters in their personal oceans. An ocean without its unnamed monsters would be like a completely dreamless sleep.

There is no term comparable to green thumbs to apply to such a mechanic, but there should be. For there are men who can look, listen, tap, make an adjustment, and a machine works.

If I was alone I could live so easy. I could go get a job an' work, an' no trouble.

A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one, that he is the most effectual and compulsive of all schools.

Man is a substance clad in shadows.

The highest art is always the most religious; and the greatest artist is always a devout man. A scoffing Raphael or Michael Angelo is not conceivable.

The wise man of Miletus thus declared the first of things is water

In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.

A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.

With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.

Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread.

Men and governments must act to the best of their ability. There is no such thing as absolute certainty but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life.

Our duty is to preach the gospel to all men.... This is what God expects of us

Adherence to men, is often disloyalty to principles.

When men live as if there were no God, it becomes expedient for them that there should be none.

There is no man that is knowingly wicked but is guilty to himself; and there is no man that carries guilt about him but he receives a sting in his soul.

It's one thing to tell a front man to drop off and fill in the hole behind, but if they don't know why they are doing it, it is not an easy thing to teach. But Rooney's just got it.

At fifty you realize that you are no longer a kid. I ignored forty. It was like I was almost at middle age. Maybe it's the baby boomer thing. But undeniably, I am a man. I have to accept [mortality].

No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law.

I like old men. They can be wonderful bastards because they have nothing to lose. The only people who can be themselves are babies and old bastards.

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Fierce and poisonous animals were created for terrifying man, in order that he might be made aware of the final judgment in hell.

Men of learning began to set experiments aside...to form theories...and to substitute these in the place of experiments.

They say I killed six or seven men for snoring. Well, it ain't true. I only killed one man for snoring.

Thou hidden love of God, whose height, Whose depth unfathomed no man knows, I see from far thy beauteous light, Only I sigh for thy repose.

It is an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes, that men should give soft words and hard arguments; that they should not so much strive to vex as to convince each other.