Men Quotes
We hope the day will soon come when every girl will be a member of a great Union of Unmarried Women, pledged to refuse an offer ofmarriage from any man who is not an advocate of their emancipation.
Seldom or never is a poor man honored by the world; however worthy of honor he may be, he is apt rather to be despised by it.
Young man, the games we play are lessons we learn. The assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become.
When men no longer have the least fear of saying something untrue, they very soon have no fear whatsoever of doing something unjust.
Show me a man who makes no mistakes, and I will show you a man who doesn't do things.
We must diligently strive to make our young men decent, God-fearing, law-abiding, honor-loving, justice-doing and also fearless and strong.
War is not merely justifiable, but imperative upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where peace can only be obtained by the sacrifice of conscientious conviction or of national welfare.
The woman has the right to be emancipated from the position of a drudge or a toy. She is entitled to a full equality in rights with man.
If you’re constantly open to inspiration, it will come to you. The worst thing a man can do is pressure himself into an idea.
The more spiritual a man desires to be, the more bitter does his present life become to him; because he sees more clearly and perceives more sensibly the defects of human corruption.
Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.
My mind is incapable of conceiving such a thing as a soul. I may be in error, and man may have a soul; but I simply do not believe it.
Man is closer to God according to his existence in grace than he is according to his existence in nature.
Anger and the like are attributed to God on account of a similitude of effect. Thus, because to punish is properly the act of an angry man, God's punishment is metaphorically spoken of as His anger.
No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original.
Not to be content with Life is the unsatisfactory state of those which destroy themselves; who being afraid to live, run blindly upon their own Death, which no Man fears by Experience.
Whoso has sixpence is sovereign (to the length of sixpence) over all men; commands cooks to feed him, philosophers to teach him, kings to mount guard over him,to the length of sixpence.
God gave you that gifted tongue of yours, and set it between your teeth, to make known your true meaning to us, not to be rattled like a muffin man's bell.
Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend, not the man for your banker, though he may do for a traveling companion.
When greater perils men inviron, Then women show a front of iron; And, gentle in their manner, they Do bold things in a quiet way.
How happy a thing were a wedding, And a bedding, If a man might purchase a wife For a twelvemonth and a day
- the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly with scarce any man.
Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.
Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seeds of religion
By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.
A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad.
For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for him who has the eyes to see them.
The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, in-as-much as he who knows nothing is nearer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehood and errors.
I hope that we have not labored in vain, and that our experiment will still prove that men can be governed by reason.
Against us are all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty We are likely to preserve the liberty we have obtained only by unremitting labors and perils.
The uniform tenor of a man's life furnishes better evidence of what he has said or done on any particular occasion than the word of any enemy.
History has informed us that bodies of men as well as individuals are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny.
I have learnt to expect that it will rarely fall to the lot of imperfect man to retire from this station with the reputation and the favor which bring him into it.
The equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps.
