Men Quotes
Some fearful sights there be that creep By night - I mean that harass sleep; But tenfold more alarming seem these when They brave the day, to breathe the air like men.
To claim, therefore, inerrancy for the King James Version, or even for the Revised Version, is to claim inerrancy for men who never professed it for themselves.
Let the men do their duty & the women will be such wonders; the female life lives from the light of the male: see a man's female dependants, you know the man.
Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed or governed their passions, but because they have cultivate their understandings.
I once knew a man out of courtesy help a lame dog over a stile, and he for requital bit his fingers.
Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.
Man knows so little about his fellows. In his eyes all men or women act upon what he believes would motivate him if he were mad enough to do what the other man or woman is doing.
An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.
A man's ideal, like his horizon, is constantly receding from him as he advances toward it.
He is the greatest influence in the world today. There is... a fifth Gospel being written - the work of Jesus Christ in the hearts and lives of men and nations.
Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote.
Truth from the mouth of an honest man and severity from a good-natured man have a double effect.
Perpetual spring, the flare of adventure in the blood, the impulse of men who packed Virgil with their bean-bags on the overland journey, conspired~ to make San Francisco a city of artists.
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
Fishing, Danny boy, is purely a state of mind. Some men, when they are fishing, are after fish. Me, I'm after things you could never set a barbed hook in.
A fair feeld ful of folk fond I ther bitwene -Of alle manere of men, the meene and the riche,Werchynge and wandrynge as the world asketh.
For my part, I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses,--the very easiest to be deadened when wakened, and in some never wakened at all.
As with the acquisition, so with the use of money; they way in which a man spends it is often one of the surest tests of character.
No man pays double or twice for the same thing, forasmuch as nothing can be spent but once.
I hope no man takes what I said about the living and dieing of men for mathematical demonstration.
Christianity promises to make men free; it never promises to make them independent.
Man must get away from verbal forms to attain the consciousness, that which is there to be perceived at hand.
The world wasn't a more tolerant place when I was a young man. Rather, they simply sidestepped all the issues.
The genius of America is production; and a large percentage of our productive enterprises are headed by men who have come up from the worker's bench.
Every man is correct in asking God why he is stuck with himself, and his rotten luck.
My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient.
No matter where; of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth
They are fairies; he that speaks to them shall die. I'll wink and couch; no man their works must eye.
It may do good; pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, for supple knees Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees.
Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice And could of men distinguish her election, Sh'ath sealed thee for herself.
You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age; wretched in both.