Men Quotes

Man and nature belong together in their created glory – in their tragedy and in their salvation.

In Calvinism and sectarianism man became more and more transformed into an abstract moral subject, as in Descartes he was considered an epistemological subject.

Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This is a precious gift.

I used to write things that might have sounded better coming out of an older person's voice or vision. Hence, "grandpa-boy." I'm an old man, but I'm a boy. A really old boy!

A man is at his strongest when he is willing to accept his vulnerability

Because true love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny

I have been told that beauty is the great seducer of men.

God created the visible world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of his wisdom

It's not what enters men's mouth that is evil," said the alchemist. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.

Our bodies can be mobilized by law and police and men with guns, if necessary-but where shall we find that which will make us believe in what we must do, so that we can fight through to victory?

Belief is involuntary; nothing involuntary is meritorious or reprehensible. A man ought not to be considered worse or better for his belief.

For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man's face. I now Say what I think.

Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.

The true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about it.

It is only too clear that man is not at home within this universe, and yet that he is not good enough to deserve a better.

I do think men fear female intuition.

Men get it. I think us men need you women to help us survive.

I do not like to see men walk away from women in late middle age.

The fault is in the system and not in the men.

The pretence that numbers are not the humble creation of man, but are the exacting language of the Universe and therefore possess the secret of all things, is comforting, terrifying and mesmeric.

Do we elect a man because of what he stands for, because of where he stands on the issues, because how he makes the nation feel?

Saints have to be tough as well as tender because saints are like Christ, and Christ was the toughest and the tenderest man who ever lived.

Educated men - "civilized," as Fourier used to say with disdain - tremble at the idea that society might some day be without judges, police, or gaolers.

What do men know? Because they have seen no unicorns for a while does not mean we have all vanished.

When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly off-hand manner, and the man has died long before.

The young need old men. They need men who are not ashamed of age, not pathetic imitations of themselves. ... Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

I am just a man, not fit to do the work of God... or the Devil.

I hate being moved. I hate that man who came in. So self-righteous, so cruel. He made fun of me, that's why I cried. You never did that. You led me into temptation by your - politeness.

Woe to the man who tries to stretch the imagination of man He shall be mocked he shall be scourged by the blinkered guardians of morality.

Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?

I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there.

Everyone will find what he's looking for. Nothing pleases everyone: this man gathers thorns, that one roses.

I do not believe that one can become rich without being a shark; a sensitive man will never amass wealth.

As an actor, I felt I couldn't compete. I wasn't as cute as the leading man; I wasn't as brilliant as Robin Williams.

I'm one of those that believes you can't be one kind of a man and another kind of president.

In the town of Bethlehem many years ago, a man got religion and he changed the status quo.

A just man is not one who does no ill, But he, who with the power, has not the will.

As there is no pleasure in military life for a soldier who fears death, so there is no independence in civil existence for the man who has an overpowering dread of solitude.

The beautiful are never desolate; But some one alway loves them--God or man. If man abandons, God himself takes them.

True faith nor biddeth nor abideth form, The bended knee, the eye uplift; is all Which men need render; all which God can bear. What to the faith are forms? A passing speck, A crow upon the sky.

For any man to match above his rank is but to sell his liberty.

But married once, a man is stak'd or pown'd, and cannot graze beyond his own hedge.

And, to all married men, be this a caution, Which they should duly tender as their life, Neither to doat too much, nor doubt a wife.

What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring?

There is no man suddenly either excellently good or extremely evil, but grows either as he holds himself up in virtue or lets himself slide to viciousness.

Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.

Common man has at long last got himself so far out of gear with nature and his environment that he is beginning to see the shape of extinction, whether he recognizes it as such or not.

When we play the part of a great man too much, we seem very small.