Men Quotes

Common sense is a phrase employed to denote that degree of intelligence, sagacity, and prudence which is common to all men.

No doubt solitude is wholesome, but so is abstinence after a surfeit. The true life of man is in society.

One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason.

Why do you wear a mask and hood?" I think everybody will in the near future," was the man in black's reply. "They're terribly comfortable.

I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation.

Men educated in [the critical habit of thought]are slow to believe. They can hold things as possible or probable in all degrees, without certainty and without pain.

Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare.

The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its 'debt' in the penitentiary or the poor house.

Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect.

A minister, without boldness, is like a smooth file, a knife without an edge, a sentinel that is afraid to let off his gun. If men will be bold in sin, ministers must be bold to reprove.

Therefore tremble, O man, at any power thou hast, except thou usest it for God. Art thou strong in body; who hath thy strength? God, or thy lusts?

We must admit that it is quite common that people do have affairs with their leading ladies and men.

The more a man writes, the more he can write.

A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man.

No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

When you find out a man's ruling passion, beware of crossing him in it.

Men are in numberless instances qualified for certain things, for no other reason than because they are qualified for nothing else.

The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame.

The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.

The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.

Men of gravity are intellectual stammerers, whose thoughts move slowly.

A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof.

And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.

When men are so busy making money that they have no time for anything else, then the day is not far off when they will have no money for anything else.

Man lives by habits indeed, but what he lives for is thrill and excitements. ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement.

A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.

Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.

There is no more reason to believe that man descended from an inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.

If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?

In France the men all live in cafes, the children are all put out to nurse, and the women, saving the respect of mademoiselle -- well, the less said about them the better.

All our liberties are due to men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken the laws of the land.

The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs.

Shouldn't Democrats insist that Sen. Durbin step down as their whip, the number two man in their leadership?

A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.

Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while. Maybe the only gift is a chance to inquire, to know nothing for certain. An inheritance of wonder and nothing more.

A man who couldn't make things go right could at least go. He could quit trying to get out of the way of life. Chuck routine. Live the real jeopardy of circumstance. It was a question of dignity.

Men ardently pursue truth, assuming it will be angels' bread when found.

Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?

There is no man that can teach us to be gentlemen better than Joseph Addison.

As if the ray which travels from the sun would reach me sooner than the man who blacks my boots.

It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.

In the world a man lives in his own age; in solitude in all ages.

Unless a man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous.

Richard Meier told me, 'Young man, solar energy has nothing to do with architecture.'

To commiserate is sometimes more than to give, for money is external to a man's self, but he who bestows compassion communicates his own soul.

There is no entering into the secret thoughts of a man's heart.

What a man thinks is no concern of the government.

Absolute discretion is a ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any of man's other inventions.

The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and their griefs.