Men Quotes

Man is a biped without feathers.

The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man.

Man is the plumeless genus of bipeds, birds are the plumed.

If you ask: What is the good of education? The answer is easy: Education makes good men and good men act nobly.

Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man.

What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns to skip, dance, and kneel

The only difference between them and my girls is that my girls gave a man his money's worth.

Man's life comes from God: it is his image and imprint, as sharing in his breath of life. God therefore is the sole Lord of this life: Man cannot do with it as he wills.

In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity, of the heights to which he is raised, of the surpassing worth of his own humanity, and of the meaning of his existence.

Furthermore, in this one Church of Christ no man can be or remain who does not accept, recognize and obey the authority and supremacy of Peter and his legitimate successors.

Machines can only find what ignorant men have programmed them to find.

We will not return No one must leave here and so carry to the world, together with the sign impressed on his skin, the evil tidings of what man's presumption made of man in Auschwitz

Let each man pass his days in that endeavor wherein his gift is greatest.

To each man at his birth nature has given some fault.

You, O money, are the cause of a restless life! Because of you we journey toward a premature death; you provide cruel nourishment for the evils of men; the seed of our cares sprouts from your head.

When men find they must inevitably perish, they willingly resolve to die with their comrades and with their arms in their hands.

I'm the definition of half man, half drugs.

Assist a man in raising a burden; but do not assist him in laying it down.

Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.

Avoid taking a definite stand on great public issues either in the Senate or before the people. Bend your energies towards making friends of key men in all classes of voters.

There are a few editor men with whom I am privileged to come in contact. It has not been long since it was their habit to come in contact with me. There is a difference.

Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat - seamy on both sides.

History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.

I was one man and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could.

If there be one man, more than another, who deserves to succeed in flying through the air, that man is Mr. Laurence Hargrave, of Sydney, New South Wales.

A husband is a man who two minutes after his head touches the pillow is snoring like an overloaded omnibus.

The dog is man's best friend. He has a tail on one end. Up in front he has teeth. And four legs underneath.

Men endured so much for war, but for peace they dared nothing.

Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities, are the greatest cozenage men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretences to break known rules by.

Whatever be the motives which induce men to write,--whether avarice or fame,--the country becomes more wise and happy in which they most serve for instructors.

The truth is that the whole system of beliefs which comes in with the story of the fall of man ... is gently falling out of enlightened human intelligence.

Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.

Deep-seated preferences cannot be argued about - you cannot argue a man into liking a glass of beer.

Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

I can say I love working with women. Film is a man's world, and I really appreciate the opportunity to collaborate with women, especially young women.

I think that women are more sensitive to emotional infidelity than men. I think men are more scared of physical infidelity.

A thing which fades With no outward sign - Is the flower Of the heart of man In this world!

I know ours is a world made by men for men, their dictatorship is so ancient it even extends to language.

Some men are great enough that they can love a whole woman, and not just part of her.

The world is always a democracy in times of flux, and the man with the best voice will win.

I'm a self-made man. Who else would help?

What is said of man is nothing; the point is, who says it.

When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.

Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.

When I see a spade, I call it a spade. I'm glad to say I have never seen a spade. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use it. It's the only thing he's fit for.

In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.

As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.

There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.

It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in private life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees.

Men of thoughts should have nothing to do with action.