Men Quotes

Human nature is so weak that the honest men who have no religion make me fret with their perilous virtue, as rope-dancers with their dangerous equilibrium.

A man cannot be comfortable spiritually who is in bondage financially.

Every man carries with him the world in which he must live.

The active part of man consists of powerful instincts.

Truth is congenial to man. Moral truth is then most consummate when, like beauty, it commends itself without argument. The righteous not only does right, but loves to do right.

Few things are needful to make the wise man happy, but nothing satisfies the fool; - and this is the reason why so many of mankind are miserable.

A man of understanding finds less difficulty in submitting to a wrong-headed fellow, than in attempting to set him right.

A man cannot please long who has only one kind of wit.

Gratitude, in most men, is only a strong and secret hope of greater favors.

Most men expose themselves in battle enough to save their honor, few wish to do so more than sufficiently, or than is necessary to make the design for which they expose themselves succeed.

No man can love a second time the person whom he has once truly ceased to love.

There are no events so disastrous that adroit men do not draw some advantage from them, nor any so fortunate that the imprudent cannot turn to their own prejudice.

In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly.

Being for every man the touchstone of faith and love, the Eucharist, like on the Cross, divided the minds as soon as it was announced... Nothing engages a man as much as does the Eucharist

Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.

I feel sorry for men. They have more problems than women, because they now have to compete with women.

When a man eats his words, that's recycling.

The wisest man I have ever known once said to me: 'Nine out of every ten people improve on acquaintance,' and I have found his words true.

No man can be satisfied with his attainment, although he may be satisfied with his circumstances.

A man up in front of a judge says "I don't recognise this court." "Why not?" "It's been redecorated since the last time I was here."

I am accusing him of stealing my best material, he was a very funny man.

Life is strange. Every so often a good man wins.

There exists no separation between gods and men; one blends softly casual into the other.

Money shows [man] new ways to cheat life. Power becomes exterior instead of interior. In these circumstances architecture becomes too difficult, building too easy.

Always blame conditions, not men

The most likely cause of a man's depression is his failure to be the man he thinks he should be

Religion, by teaching man his relationship to God, gives the individual a sense of his own dignity and teaches him to respect himself by respecting his neighbors.

The gains in education are never really lost. Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth, like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men.

Newspaper men, perhaps more than any other class, are rated by ability.

For Europe, for ourselves and for humanity, comrades, we must turn over a new leaf, we must work out new concepts, and try to set afoot a new man.

Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.

Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.

The whole visible world is perhaps nothing other than a motivation of man's wish to rest for a moment an attempt to falsify the fact of knowledge, to try to turn the knowledge into the goal.

The creation of new capital always... releases... labor. Its actual effect [though] is not to make jobs scarce, but to free men's labor for other jobs.

Shields Green was not one to shrink from hardships or dangers. He was a man of few words, and his speech was singularly broken; but his courage and self-respect made him quite a dignified character.

To make a man happy, fill his hands with work.

In football a man was asked to do a difficult and brutal job, and he either did it or got out.

What is spiritual experience? A snowflake melting, a bee sucking honey, a fat man at a traffic light. Trivia.

Men fearing their innate power, pushed woman back into slavery.

I'm not blaming men, I'm not blaming women. What's gone by has already gone by. It's history. It's done. There is no right or wrong in higher spirituality.

Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation.

One need not be a prophet to be aware of impending dangers. An accidental combination of experience and interest will often reveal events to one man under aspects which few yet see.

... that order generated without design can far outstrip plans men consciously contrive

The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves.

A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.

One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.

And it is the great noon when man stands at the midpoint of his course between beast and superman and celebrates his way to the evening as his highest hope: for it is the way to a new morning.

There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species.

Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself.

In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops.