Men Quotes

The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see: and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions, government, in short, under the same conditions?

Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men. [Lat., Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt, quam salutem hominibus dando.]

Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.

Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.

All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union, and are connected, if I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one another.

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than #‎ agriculture

He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately.

By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men.

Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent.

A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not seen before, he calls it a prodigy.

Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.

Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober. [Lat., Non est ab homine nunquam sobrio postulanda prudentia.]

I have heard that a man might be his own lawyer, but you can't be your own judge.

Man's most human characteristic is not his ability to learn, which he shares with many other species, but his ability to teach and store what others have developed and taught him.

All really nice girls wonder when men don't try to kiss them. They know they shouldn't want them to and they know they must act insulted if they do, but just the same, they wish the men would try.

God help the man who ever really loves you.

Conventions which camouflage a man's true feelings are a spiritual lie which help him adapt himself to the organized deviations of society.

There cannot be too many glorious women.

How foolish it would be if women did not obey men. The world would be all confusion!

Whoever believes in a man is very foolish.

Fortune does not change men; it only unmasks them. [..by how they choose to react to it.]

Beware of the virtue which a man boasts is his.

Where would the power of women be, were it not for the vanity of men?

It is unfortunate that superior talent and superior men are so seldom united.

A man with lofty ideas is an uncomfortable neighbor.

I got to know Sterling Hayden fairly well. He was a quiet man, who got more complicated as the years went on.

I was told that when you hit forty men stop looking at you. It's true, until you slip on a mini-skirt.

I've found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

The man upstairs is pushing the buttons, and if your name happens to be on that button, well, thank you.

It was from this experience came his oft-repeated belief that every man has but one destiny.

I have a chest full of all the insults, villainies, and infamies a man is capable of withstanding. . . . If you become famous, you will have to go through that.

The ultimate form of love for God and men is forgiveness.

Well, so it must be, for as man saw reality, so it became.

And I must believe that man has the power to know the right, to choose between good and evil and know that his choice has made a difference.

I realized that I was more of a sprinter than a marathon man. With a long, long project, I get bored easily.

There is nothing that puts a man more in your debt than that he owes you nothing.

One man's fish is another man's poisson.

Benedict is bumbly, sweet, affable; the nicest man you've met.

Man has wants deeper than can be supplied by wealth or nature or domestic affections. His great relations are to his God and to eternity.

Christianity alone inspires and guides progress; for the progress of man is movement toward God. and movement toward God wili ensure a gradual unfolding of all that exalts and adorns man.

There's a road to hell that is paved with good intentions but it's a long route. The quicker path is paved with the kind of ignorance that clever men who just don't want to know are best at.

A strange thing — nails will hold a building together, but there's nothing better for taking a man apart.

The senator's actions in the hours and days after emerging from that pond tell us something ugly about Kennedy the man. That he got away with it tell us something ugly about American public life.

Cherimoya, the most delicious fruit known to men.

It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth.