Men Quotes
Professor Ian McDonald of Guy's hospital in London...has found that, in young men, sugar raises the level of cholesterol in the blood, and especially...tri-glycerides.
A marine protozoan is an aqueous salty system in an aqueous salty medium, but a man is an aqueous salty system in a medium in which there is but little water and most of that poor in salts.
He drank his first strong liquor then to calm his shaking hand, and tried to tell himself at last he had become a man.
I can't sing. Never been able to sing. I can't do voices very well. Every impression I do sounds the same. I can't dunk. Man, would I give anything to dunk. Just once.
Have you not observed that there is a lower kind of discretion and regularity, which seldom fails of raising men to the highest station in the court, the church, and the law?
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time.
It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.
Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays.
When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.
In like manner, the disbelief of a Divine Providence renders a man uncapable of holding any public station; for, since kings avow themselves to be the deputies of Providence.
It is an uncontrolled truth, that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them.
There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them.
A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.
Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.
Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.
I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself.
The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.
The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-satisfied man."
The wise man contents himself with what he has, until such time as he invents something better.
A writer is a man like any other: he dreams. And my dream was to be able to say of this book, when I finished: 'This is a book about Alentejo.'
To realize the relative validity of one's convictions and yet stand for them unflinchingly is what distinguishes a civilized man from a barbarian.
It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
A contemplation of God's works, a generous concern for the good of mankind, and the unfeigned exercise of humility only, denominate men great and glorious.
It is observed by Cicero, that men of the greatest and most shining parts are most actuated by ambition.
The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as the Italian proverb says, "The man that lives by hope, will die by despair.
Government mitigates the inequality of power, and makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow-subjects.
Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.
A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts
