Men Quotes

For still the new transcends the old In signs and tokens manifold; Slaves rise up men; the olive waves, With roots deep set in battle graves!

Unto each man comes a day when his favorite sins all forsake him, And he complacently thinks he has forsaken his sins.

The tide tarrieth no man.

The wise man sayth, store is no sore.

The genius of poetry must work out its own salvation in a man; it cannot be matured by law and precept, but by sensation and watchfulness in itself. That which is creative must create itself.

The uttered part of a man's life, let us always repeat, bears to the unuttered, unconscious part a small unknown proportion. He himself never knows it, much less do others.

Much of the world's work, it has been said, is done by men who do not feel quite well. Marx is a case in point.

Consciousness is the perception of what passes in man's own mind.

It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.

Children (nay, and men too) do most by example.

The difference, so observable in men's understandings and parts, does not arise so much from their natural faculties, as acquired habits.

Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.

MEN being, as has been said, by nature, all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, without his own consent.

Men are more helped by sympathy than by service.

Whatsoever is in the heart of the sober man, is in the mouth of the drunkard.

By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.

I do know that the world knows or thinks that I have money and lots of it. They perceive me as an old weak man and an easy target.

And sing to those that hold the vital shears; And turn the adamantine spindle round, On which the fate of gods and men is wound.

Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?

Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational.

You have not converted a man, because you have silenced him.

The mountains are fountains not only of rivers and fertile soil, but of men.

They tell us that plants are not like man immortal, but are perishable-soul -less. I think that is something that we know exactly nothing about.

The call of God does what the call of man cannot. It raises the dead.

Many people are willing to be God-centered as long as they feel that God is man-centered

A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections.

Human work must be done honourably and thoroughly, because we are now Men; whether we ever expect to be angels, or were ever slugs, being practically no matter.

If free men refused to look at dead bodies then brave men will have died in vain.

I see too many men delay their exits with a sickly, slow reluctance to leave the stage. It's bad theater as well as bad living.

I know this... a man got to do what he got to do.

... a man is a very important thing-maybe more important than a star.

And this you can know- fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept, for this one quality is man, distinctive in the universe.

Sometimes a kind of glory lights up the mind of a man.

A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers.

In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved.

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.

The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.

The principles which men profess on any controverted subject are usually a very incomplete exponent of the opinions they really hold.

All errors which a man is likely to commit against advice are far outweighed by the evil of allowing others to constrain him for his good.

It is unethical for any man to tax another man's home to fund his social agenda. Friends don't do that, your enemies will.

The true ground of most men's prejudice against the Christian doctrine is because they have no mind to obey it.

Every man hath greater assurance that God is good and just than he can have of any subtle speculations about predestination and the decrees of God.

We don't man-mark anybody. I have never, ever done it in 27 years as a manager and I would never do it.

I would rather be seated between any two women than any two men at a dinner party.

If so men's memories not a monument be, None shalt thou have. Warm hearts, and not cold stone, Must mark thy grave, or thou shalt lie, unknown. Marbles keep not themselves; how then, keep thee?

To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning.

Out here a man settles his own problems.

I'm the stuff men are made of!

I never killed a man I didn't have to.

Any man who'd make an X-rated movie ought to have to take his daughter to see it.