Men Quotes

When men cease to be faithful to their God, he who expects to find them so to each other will be much disappointed.

A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.

Men measure not only other men, but all other things, by themselves.

The power of a man is his present means to obtain some future apparent good.

If I had read as much as other men I would have known no more than they.

Prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

No man is bound by the words themselves, either to kill himselfe, or any other man.

Let a man (as most men do) rate themselves as the highest Value they can; yet their true Value is no more than it is esteemed by others.

When he is forsaken, Withered and shaken, What can an old man do but die?

There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured to him.

Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice.

The Declaration of Independence . . . [is the] declaratory charter of our rights, and the rights of man.

God grant that men of principle shall be our principal men.

Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission.

The moral sense, or conscience, is as much part of a man as his leg or arm. It is given to all in a stronger or weaker degree.. It may be strengthened by exercise.

We ought not to schismatize on either men or measures. Principles alone can justify that.

Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain combinations of the head. Nature laid their foundation, therefore, in sentiment, not in science.

Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he knows nothing but what has passed under his own eyes.

The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.

The moral sense is the first excellence of well-organized man.

I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.

I... [am] convinced [man] has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.

There is an eternal conflict between the school-room and the bar-room. The school-room makes men, the bar-room destroys them.

In a bowl to sea went wise men three, On a brilliant night of June: They carried a net, and their hearts were set On fishing up the moon.

For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.

Fill the seats of justice with good men, not so absolute in goodness as to forget what human frailty is.

No flattery, boy! an honest man cannot live by it; it is a little, sneaking art, which knaves use to cajole and soften fools withal.

It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt

That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true.

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.

And to read the Bible without horror, we must undo everything that is tender, sympathizing and benevolent in the heart of man.

Of more worth is one honest man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.

And this manner of speaking of the Almighty, as one would speak of a man, is consistent with nothing but the stupidity of the Bible.

War ought to be no man's wish.

The animals to whom nature has given the faculty we call cunning know always when to use it, and use it wisely; but when man descends to cunning he blunders and betrays.

The times that tried men's souls are over-and the greatest and completest revolution the world ever knew, gloriously and happily accomplished.

All men can understand what representation is; and that it must necessarily include a variety of knowledge and talents.

He, who survives his reputation, lives out of despite himself, like a man listening to his own reproach.

For, until the wisdom of men bear some proportion to the wisdom of God, their attempts to find out the structure of his works, by the force of their wit and genius, will be vain.

No one has learned the meaning of living until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow man. Service to others is akin to duty, the fulfillment of which brings true joy.

When we safeguard (the heavenly virtue of freedom), when we honor it, when we protect it, we will walk with Washington, we will pray with patriots, and we shall have peace on earth, good will to men.

[Con] men have long known . . . that their job is not to convince skeptics but to enable the gullible to continue to believe what they want to believe.

All false practices and affections of knowledge are more odious to God, and deserve to be so to men, than any want or defect of knowledge can be.

It is always esteemed the greatest mischief a man can do to those whom he loves, to raise men's expectations of them too high by undue and impertinent commendations.

If joining IBM was commitment, not employment, and the company engaged in something more than business, it had a right to demand of its men unconditional loyalty, Watson believed.

Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit.

In our modern world today, we may seem like drowning men because of the loss of much of our spiritual tradition.

I was an old man when I was 12; and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID!

The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.

still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design.