Men Quotes

If all history is only an amplification of biography, the history of science may be most instructively read in the life and work of the men by whom the realms of Nature have been successively won.

Without guilt / What is a man? An animal, isn't he? / A wolf forgiven at his meat, / A beetle innocent in his copulation.

Running is never fun. Running is something that you do when there's a man chasing you with a knife.

Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one.

The angry man wishes the object of his anger to suffer in return; hatred wishes its object not to exist.

Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is therefore preferable to any individual.

Wicked men obey out of fear. good men, out of love

There are some jobs in which it is impossible for a man to be virtuous.

No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not flatter them.

If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like that - agent and patient at once.

Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.

The avarice of mankind is insatiable; at one time two obols was pay enough; but now, when this sum has become customary, men always want more and more without end.

Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in office.

Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man.

Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.

The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.

The high-minded man is fond of conferring benefits, but it shames him to receive them.

Legislative enactments proceed from men carrying their views a long time back; while judicial decisions are made off hand.

...for all men do their acts with a view to achieving something which is, in their view, a good.

Man by nature wants to know.

All men desire by nature to know.

The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp, for they are farthest removed from the senses.

Brethren, the just man shall scarcely be saved. What, then, will become of the sinner?

War for most men is not fighting or marching in parades. It is sitting around somewhere wondering what the hell you are supposed to be doing.

Well the frog men finally got Rosie.

Old men declare war because they have failed to solve complex political and economic problems.

The prevailin' weakness of most public men is to Slop Over!.... G. Washington never slopt over.

If there are any gods whose chief concern is man, they can't be very important gods.

Where there's more of singing and less of sighing, Where there's more of giving and less of buying, And a man makes friends without half trying That's where the West begins.

No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.

The most enthusiastic man in a cause is rarely chosen as the leader.

A little man makes a mistake and they hang him by the thumbs; the big ones become ambassadors.

A happy life is impos­si­ble; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life.

For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it.

[T]he appropriate form of address between man and man ought to be, not monsieur, sir, but fellow sufferer, compagnon de miseres.

The man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror's booth at a fair, and sees the same tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.

What a man is: that is to say, personality, in the widest sense of the word; under which are included health, strength, beauty, temperament, moral character, intelligence, and education.

Life is a task to be done. It is a fine thing to say defunctus est; it means that the man has done his task.

Sin is more than an act or a series of acts; it is a man's make-up.

By then Esthappen and Rahel had learned that the world had other ways of breaking men. They were already familiar with the smell. Sicksweet. Like old roses on a breeze.

Nothing is worth anything to dead men.

The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.

Women have a level of outward compassion that a lot of men don't necessarily have. Guys feel as deeply as women, but they don't share it as much.

All men fall. It's but time and method that differ.

A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.

Every wise man lives in an observatory.

It is part of the unceasing human endeavor to prove that the spirit of man can transcend the flaws of his own nature.

Some men are like a church-organ -- you can play on them for a lifetime and always find new harmonies; others are like a music-box -- they have four or five thin jingles.

Some men are like a clock on the roof; they are useful only to the neighbors.

A disciplined conscience is a man's best friend. It may not be his most amiable, but it is his most faithful monitor.