Men Quotes

Poor Knight! he really had two periods, the firsta dull man writing broken English, the seconda broken man writing dull English.

It is strange that the tactile sense, which is so infinitely less precious to men than sight, becomes at critical moments our main, if not only, handle to reality.

Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities.

Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right.

The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness

The superstitious man is to the rogue what the slave is to the tyrant.

Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred different ways.

Just like my Uncle Charlie used to say, just before he sprung the trap: He said, "You can't cheat and honest man! Never give a sucker an even break or smarten up a chump!

It is as though nature must needs make men narrow in order to give them force.

We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness.

Without discipline a body of men becomes rabble. Rabble dies, either on the battlefield or in a POW camp.

A man is a form of life that dreams in order to act and acts in order to dream.

The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience.

Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk.

The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.

A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden.

No man in his heart is quite so cynical as a well-bred woman.

By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.

I think there is a period of esthetic discovery that happens to a man and he can do all sorts of things at white heat.

No possible combination of circumstances can keep a man down, if he makes his personal attitude right and determines to rise.

The man who is wise enough to know the right thing to do, who is good enough to wish to do only the right thing, and who is able and strong enough to do the right thing is a truly great man.

The 'advancing man' in medicine, who holds to a clear mental image of himself as successful, and who obeys the laws of faith, purpose, and gratitude, will cure every curable case he undertakes.

Nothing that is possible in spirit is impossible in flesh and blood. Nothing that man can think is impossible. Nothing that man can imagine is impossible of realization.

The average person's idea of a great man, rather than one who serves, is of one who succeeds in getting himself served.

It is the abiding concern of thinking people to preserve what keeps men human-to save our contact with nature of which we are a part.

The night Makes everything grotesque. Is it because Night is the nature of man's interior world?

Tinsel in February, tinsel in August. There are things in a man besides his reason.

The resources of this earth are inexhaustible, because God made man's mind inexhaustible.

A man can be a hero in any profession

And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

The shallow, as intimated, consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise see in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

Many a good man I have seen go under.

A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

I think somebody ought to do a survey as to how many great, important men have quit to spend time with their families who spent any more time with their family. Probably less.

Be kind to an old man.

If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder.

The play of sunlight is amusement enough for a lazy man.

Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smoky Joe Wood.

The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepen his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.

Words signify man's refusal to accept the world as it is.

Neither does man have gills for living in a water environment; yet it is not sinful to explore the depths of the oceans in search of food or other blessings.

We agree that man was not created to survive in space.

In places where men are used to differences they inevitably become tolerant.

A more conscious life is one in which a man is conscious not only of what he sees, but of the prejudices with which he sees it.

The true speech of man is idiomatic, if not of the earth and sky, then at least of the saloon and the bleachers.

Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool of silence.

Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

A man cannot sleep in his cradle: whatever is useful must in the nature of life become useless.

Men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice.