Men Quotes

Nature is a frugal mother, and never gives without measure. When she has work to do, she qualifies men for that and sends them equipped.

That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual.

Every man contemplates an angel in his future self.

For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?

Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.

Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply,- "'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die."

There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment.

As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.

No man gains credit for his cowardly courtesies.

The great majority of men grow up and grow old in seeming and following.

It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in his life. Our temperaments differ in capacity of heat, or

There is no eloquence without a man behind it.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.

The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.

If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.

Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior.

Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State.

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous or when they are most luxurious-they are conservatives after dinner.

Life is comic or pitiful as soon as the high ends of being fade out of sight, and man becomes near-sighted, and can only attend towhat addresses the senses.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine.

Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise beforea man, and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison.

So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth whispers, 'I can.

Far off, men swell, bully, and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are feeble folk.

Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.

The walking of Man is falling forwards.

Genius seems to consist merely in trueness of sight, in using such words as show that the man was an eye-witness, and not a repeater of what was told.

We flee away from cities, but we bring The best of cities, these learned classifiers, Men knowing what they seek, armed eyes of experts.

I think no virtue goes with size;The reason of all cowardiceIs, that men are overgrown,And, to be valiant, must come downTo the titmouse dimension.

The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome.

Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds: Men live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which yet they never enter, and with their hand on the doorlatch they die outside.

The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.

Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.

A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.

If a man prays to Thee with a yearning heart, he can reach Thee, through Thy grace, by any path.

Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do.

Though how nature works is way beyond man's ability to comprehend, I have found that observing how nature works offers innumerable lessons that can help us understand the realities that affect us.

I'm scared of one man, one vote because it suggests that everybody has an equal ability at making decisions, and I think that's dangerous.

He sounded like a man who had slept well and didn't owe too much money.

A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.

No man surely has so short a memory as the American.

It has happened to me to meet many of the men of my day whom the world agreed to call great.

Where else but in America can a poor black man like Michael Jackson grow up to be a rich white woman?

Men rise through the ranks because of potential, but women have to prove themselves - while trying to have children and having no family leave.

Especially in this industry, women challenge men much more now because we're saying, 'We can do it, too.'

Man is both strong and weak, both free and bound, both blind and far-seeing. He stands at the juncture of nature and spirit; and is involved in both freedom and necessity.

There must be equality of all men before God and in a democratic society. Now that's one of the great achievements.

That is the truth about man - that he has a curious kind of dignity, but also a curious kind of misery, and that these forms of agnosticism don't understand.