Men Quotes

A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die.

Of course, no man is entirely in his right mind at any time.

When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface

Man is kind enough when he is not excited by religion

Nature makes the locust with an appetite for crops; man would have made him with an appetite for sand

A man can be a Christian or a patriot, but he can't legally be a Christian and a patriot - except in the usual way: one of the two with the mouth, the other with the heart.

How stunning are the changes which age makes in a man while he sleeps!

If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.

When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.

Where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible.

The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad of these conscience-soothing falsities

Sum all the gifts that man is endowed with, and we give our greatest share of admiration to his energy. And today, if I were a heathen, I would rear a statue to Energy and fall down and worship it!

No temperance society which is well officered and which has the real good of our fellow-men in view, will ever get drunk save in the seclusion of its temperance hall.

It now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one...the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.

A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.

Conscience, man's moral medicine chest.

They all laid their heads together like as many lawyers when they are gettin' ready to prove that a man's heirs ain't got any right to his property.

Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is wrong. There is no other time.

A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps in and takes the matter off his hands.

Few of us stand prosperity; another man's I mean.

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose.

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies.

A man may have no bad habits and have worse

...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars.

Let me tell you, Barack Obama is the most down dude in the world, but he's so smart so articulate, such an amazing speaker such a passionate man. He's humble.

The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions.

The literate man is a sucker for propaganda...You cannot propagandize a native. You can sell him rum and trinkets, but you cannot sell him ideas.

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Nowadays there is no conversation at all. Teachers distrust talk as much as business men.

No man can claim to usurp more than a few cubic feet of the audibilities of a public room. . . .

it was a sly trick of God's to give a man work to do - it kept him from asking questions that God couldn't answer.

What's a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.

Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name. [Lat., Nolo virum facili redimit qui sanquine famam; Hunc volo laudari qui sine morte potest.]

For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in the soul, but it is not possible to uproot it

God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.

The salvation of man does not lie in his holding himself far removed from the worldly, but in consecrating it to holy, to divine meaning.

The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.

A man too careful of danger liveth in continual torment, But a cheerful expecter of the best hath a fountain of joy within him.

Extravagance is the rich man's pitfall.

Labour is good for a man, bracing up his energies to conquest, And without it life is dull, the man perceiving himself useless.

Hate furroweth the brow; and a man may frown till he hateth.

Humility mainly becometh the converse of man with his Maker.

Faith may rise into miracles of might, as some few wise men have shown; faith may sink into credulities of weakness, as the mass of fools have witnessed.

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

If you want to interpret well and confidently, set Christ before you, for He is the man to whom it all applies, every bit of it.

Every man [human being] is an heir to a legacy of dignity and worth

We can either walk the highroad of brotherhood or the low road of man's inhumanity to man.

Man must never be treated as a means to the end of the state, but always as an end within himself.

Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace.