Men Quotes
Late one brilliant April afternoon Professor Lucius Wilson stood at the head of Chestnut Street, looking about him with the pleased air of a man of taste who does not very often get to Boston.
Unscientific man is beset by a deplorable desire to have been right. The scientist is distinguished by a desire to be right.
Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
A man who keeps a diary pays, Due toll to many tedious days; But life becomes eventful—then, His busy hand forgets the pen. Most books, indeed, are records less Of fulness than of emptiness.
The inward offer is a kind of spiritual enlightenment, whereby the promises are presented to the hearts of men, as it were, by an inward word.
People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something.
So often we have a kind of vague, wistful longing that the promises of Jesus should be true. The only way really to enter into them is to believe them with the clutching intensity of a drowning man.
A cockle-fish may as soon crowd the ocean into its narrow shell, as vain man ever comprehend the decrees of God!
The Stolen and Perverted Writings of Homer & Ovid, of Plato & Cicero, which all men ought to contemn, are set up by artifice against the Sublime of the Bible
Man's life is thought, And he, despite his terror, cannot cease Ravening through century after century, Ravening, raging, and uprooting that he may come Into the desolation of reality.
An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress.
All think what other people think; All know the man their neighbor knows. Lord, what would they say Did their Catullus walk that way?
Grant me an old man's frenzy, Myself must I remake Till I am Timon and Lear Or that William Blake Who beat upon the wall Till Truth obeyed his call.
Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.
A man in his own secret meditation / Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made / In art or politics.
That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,-- Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.
Everyone in this life is defeated but a man, if he be a man, is not defeated.
Afraid lest he be caught up in a net of words, tripped up, bewildered and so defeated-thrown aside-a man hesitates to write down his innermost convictions.
Passionate expression and vehement assertion are no arguments, unless it be of the weakness of the cause that is defended by them, or of the man that defends it.
A woman only obliges a man to secrecy, that she may have the pleasure of telling herself.
Cheerfulness is the daughter of employment; and I have known a man come home in high spirits from a funeral, merely because he has had the management of it.
God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money, Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
The man that hails you Tom or Jack, and proves by thumps upon your back how he esteems your merit, is such a friend, that one had need be very much his friend indeed to pardon or to bear it.
The success of sainthood is the success attained by struggle and suffering and achieved by faith; a success of honor, of clean hands and pure heart, of service to man and glory to God.
Noble men in the quiet of morning hear Indians singing the continent's violent requiem.
Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds.
I venture to say that every man who is not presumably incapacitated by some consideration of personal unfitness or of political danger is morally entitled to come within the pale of the Constitution.
Twixt devil and deep sea, man hacks his caves; Birth, death; one, many; what is true, and seems; Earth's vast hot iron, cold space's empty waves.
Where men cannot freely convey their thoughts to one another, no other liberty is secure.
And indeed, no man has found his religion until he has found that for which he must sell his goods and his life.
Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished; the others can only be hurt.
any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man
Some men never master anything other than the details of a job. Others master the main idea back of the job.
If a man can make typewriters better than anyone else, let us, in the name of common sense, keep him on the job of making typewriters.