Men Quotes

It is not the delicate neurotic person who is prone to angina, but the robust, the vigorous in mind and body, the keen and ambitious man, the indicator of whose engines is always at full speed ahead.

That man can interrogate as well as observe nature was a lesson slowly learned in his evolution.

What man in his right mind would conspire his own hurt? Men are beside themselves when they transgress against their convictions.

If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it. No man is compelled to evil: his consent only makes it his. It is no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.

For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach of Temptation.

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

[I]t is impossible that any people of government should ever prosper, where men render not unto God, that which is God's, as well as to Caesar, that which is Caesar's.

Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.

Religion is nothing else but love of God and man.

To the worldy man Karma is a stern Nemesis, to the spiritual man Karma unfolds itself in harmony with his highest aspirations.

Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.

Their silent wounds have speech More eloquent than men; Their tones can deeper reach Than human voice or pen.

That the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some degree foreshadowed by the older mystical sacrifices.

God raises up such men as John Bunyan and William Huntington but once in a century.

Leisure is the most challenging responsibility a man can be offered.

We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels.

What man art thou that, thus bescreened in night, So stumblest on my counsel? *Who are you? Why do you hide in the darkness and listen to my private thoughts?*

Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.

France is a dog-hole, and it no more merits the tread of a man's foot.

As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters next.

A man cannot make him laugh - but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine.

So distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough.

All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold.

The man that hath no music in himself

There's place and means for every man alive.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed.

When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again.

Two starving men cannot be twice as hungry as one; but two rascals can be ten times as vicious as one.

I am not in the roll of common men.

A good man's fortune may grow out at heels.

To be in anger is impiety, but who is man that is not angry?

Gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it and sets it light.

There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year.

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.

Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice Hath often stilled my brawling discontent.

Base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them.

Every man has business and desire, Such as it is.

Let me have men about me that are fat... Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.

I'll forbear; And am fallen out with my more headier will To take the indisposed and sickly fit For the sound man.

I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life; but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.

Keep time! How sour sweet music is when time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives. I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

Every true man's apparel fits your thief.

There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old.

Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies Which busy care draws in the brains of men; Therefore thou sleep'st so sound.

A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.

I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.

For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men.

When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.

These signs have marked me extraordinary, And all the courses of my life do show I am not in the roll of common men.

Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.