Men Quotes

As Unto the bow the the cord is , So unto the man is woman; Though she bends him, she obeys him, Though she draws him , yet she follows: Useless each without the other.

God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.

God puts the excess of hope in one man, in order that it may be a medicine to the man who is despondent.

All the wide world is but the husbandry of God for the development of the one fruit-man.

The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.

A man's ledger does not tell what he is, or what he is worth. Count what is in man, not what is on him, if you would know what he is worth-whether rich or poor.

To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.

A man without a vote is in this land like a man without a hand.

I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance I have ever known of a man signing his name and forgetting to write the letter.

Many men are stored full of unused knowledge. Like loaded guns that are never fired off, or military magazines in times of peace, they are stuffed with useless ammunition.

Some men think that the globe is a sponge that God puts into their hands to squeeze for their own garden or flower-pot.

That state of mind in which a man is impressed with invisible things is faith.

Men will let you abuse them if only you will make them laugh.

Good men are not those who now and then do a good act, but men who join one good act to another.

I am but a gatherer and disposer of other men's stuff, at my best value.

Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

Every man may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible with the possession of like liberties by every other man.

Be it or be it not true that Man is shapen in iniquity and conceived in sin, it is unquestionably true that Government is begotten of aggression, and by aggression.

In the supremacy of self-control consists one of the perfections of the ideal man.

So long as selfishness makes government needful at all, it must make every government corrupt, save one in which all men are represented.

As a human being, I'm concerned about the world that I live in.So, I'm concerned about peace.I'm concerned about man's inhumanity to man. I'm concerned about the environment.

You know it's hard to hear what a bearded man is saying. He can't speak above a whisker.

Man and boy, I have lived ever since I can remember.

Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver, but less daring. Thus with seamen: he who goes the oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly.

Nature has not implanted any power in man that was not meant to be exercised at times, though too often our powers have been abused.

That mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true--not true, or undeveloped.

I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans.

Chances rule men and not men chances.

The man who procrastinates is always struggling with misfortunes.

Diligence increaseth the fruit of toil. A dilatory man wrestles with losses.

The machine does not control the mind of man, though it affects the mind of man; it is the mind of man that can and should control the machine.

We cannot make owners by merely giving men something to own. And, I repeat, whether there be sufficient desire for property left upon which we can work, only experience can decide.

A man you can bait with a Tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons.

There were so few black men who were successful and who successfully conveyed black male fear - how America can make you feel crazy, and how America can create interesting levels of contradiction.

For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.

It is truly regrettable that a person will treat a man who is valuable to him well, and a man who is worthless to him poorly.

The great revolution of the future will be Nature's revolt against man.

Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.

The god of war is impartial: he hands out death to the man who hands out death.

It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.

We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.

Victory passes back and forth between men.

Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him.

For never, never, wicked man was wise.

Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help.

To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.

The same (hated) man will be loved after he's dead. How quickly we forget.

Every man's life is a plan of God.

The devil tempts men through their ambition, their cupidity, or their appetite, until he comes to the profane swearer, whom he clutches without any reward.