Men Quotes

The thoughtful man becomes a hermit in the thoroughfares of the marketplace.

Man flows at once to God when the channel of purity is open.

I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.

A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.

A good man therefore is a standing lesson to us all.

The man who is too set to change is dead already. The funeral is a mere detail.

No unemployment insurance can be compared to an alliance between a man and a plot of land.

We try to pay a man what he is worth and we are not inclined to keep a man who is not worth more than the minimum wage.

An inch in a man's nose is much.

England always seems to me like a man swimming with his clothes on his head.

As a man passes into middle life, or beyond it, autumn, it has been said, whispers more to his soul than any other season of the natural year. It is not difficult to see why this should be.

The Bible teaches that God owns the world. He distributes to every man according to His own good pleasure, conformably to general laws.

O gift of God! O perfect day: Whereon shall no man work, but play; Whereon it is enough for me, Not to be doing, but to be!

I will be a man among men; and no longer a dreamer among shadows.

When a man can look upon the simple wild-rose, and feel no pleasure, his taste has been corrupted.

There is so much that is deaf and dumb in man, and so much that is paralyzed, so much that is shrunken, that nothing short of a miraculous touch of re-creation can make them at death perfect beings.

The word of God tends to make large-minded noble-minded men.

Only as a grand gesture of defeat will men creep into the arms of the state and seek refuge in its power rather than their own courage.

Man is on earth as in an egg.

To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right.

War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free.

May you have plenty of wealth, you men of Ephesus, in order that you may be punished for your evil ways

The gods are immortal men, and men are mortal gods.

Man, like a light in the night, is kindled and put out.

We are in danger of developing a cult of the Common Man, which means a cult of mediocrity.

Fishing is a constant reminder of the democracy of life, of humility, and of human frailty. The forces of nature discriminate for no man.

I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.

One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.

But I shall follow the endless, winding way, — the flowing river in the cave of man; careless whither I be led, reckless where I land.

All knowledge attains its ethical value and its human significance only by the human sense with which it is employed. Only a good man can be a great physician.

Call no man happy before he dies.

It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.

Women bear Crosses better than Men do, but bear Surprizes - worse.

I believe that marriage is not just a bond but a sacred bond between a man and a woman.

A man who can be provoked by a tweet should not have his fingers anywhere near the nuclear codes.

The man who acts the least, upbraids the most.

If any man obeys the gods, they listen to him also.

For afterwards a man finds pleasure in his pains, when he has suffered long and wandered long. So I will tell you what you ask and seek to know.

All my life I've been an obese man trapped inside a fat man's body.

No trust is to be placed in women.

The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it.

I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make the men who love them ignore the ordinary rules of common-sense.

Many men nourish a pride which urges them to conceal their struggles and show themselves only as conquerors.

The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.

No man is born without faults.

Let every man find pleasure in practising the profession he has learnt.

Man is never watchful enough against dangers that threaten him every hour. [Lat., Quid quisque vitet nunquam homini satis Cautum est in horas.]

All men do not admire and delight in the same objects.