Men Quotes

The Rich Man's Banquet, which was to last for a decade, had now begun: the feast, it was recognised, went to the greediest.

Fools give you reasons, wise men never try.

The touch of reality is salvation for the man who smothers amid forms and shadows. A blind man would rejoice in sight though his eyes opened on the carnage of a battlefield.

All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own.

I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.

The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there.

There is no such thing as a heterosexual male, only men who haven't met Oscar Wilde yet.

It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it

The fatal errors of life are not due to man's being unreasonable: an unreasonable moment may be one's finest moment. They are due to man's being logical.

No man should have a secret from his wife. She invariably finds it out.

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.

Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it

When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.

Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.

If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.

And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive.

It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.

We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes.

Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.

The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.

Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him! -- hang him!

By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void.

Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.

A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.

LADY BRACKNELL Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire?

There is nothing attractive about the gospel to the natural man; the only man who finds the gospel attractive is the man who is convicted of sin.

We have to keep letting go, and slowly and surely the great full life of God will invade us in every part, and men will take knowledge of us that we have been with Jesus.

Every man is made to reach out beyond his grasp.

The emphasis to-day is being put on the fact that we have to save men; we have not. We have to exalt the Saviour Who saves men, and then make disciples in His Name.

A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.

Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.

It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts. [Lat., Candida pax homines, trux decet ira feras.]

According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear on account of his deeds arise in his mind.

The deeds of men never escape the gods. [Lat., Acta deos nunquam mortalia fallunt.]

The swallow is not ensnared by men because of its gentle nature. [Lat., At caret insidiis hominum, quia mitis, hirundo.]

Every man should stay within his own fortune. [Lat., Intera fortunam quisque debet manere suam.]

It is rare to see a rich man religious; for religion preaches restraint, and riches prompt to unlicensed freedom.

Pleasures can undo a man at any time, if yielded to.

A sentence well couched takes both the sense and understanding. I love not those cart-rope speeches that are longer than the memory of man can fathom.

He that despairs degrades the Deity, and seems to intimate that He is insufficient, or not just to His word; and in vain hath read the scriptures, the world, and man.

We pick our own sorrows out of the joys of other men, and from their sorrows likewise we derive our joys.

The boundary of man is moderation. When once we pass that pale our guardian angel quits his charge of us.

There is no detraction worse than to overpraise a man, for if his worth proves short of what report doth speak of him, his own actions are ever giving the lie to his honor.

... reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.

Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.