Men Quotes

Man should be judged by the deeds done to help his fellow man.

If by some magic, autism had been eradicated from the face of the Earth, then men would still be socializing in front of a wood fire at the entrance to a cave.

As many opinions as there are men; each a law to himself.

The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed.

There's drama in everything. That's why I love movies. Like Welcome to the Dollhouse, I'm a 350-pound black man, and I could understand what it was like to be a little white girl.

Everything is valuable under the right conditions. To a man dying of thirst, water be more precious than gold. To a drowning man, water be of little worth and great trouble.

The enemy isn’t men, or women, it’s bloody stupid people and no-one has the right to be stupid.

When a man is tired of Ankh-Morpork, he is tired of ankle-deep slurry.

If the men of property will not support us, they must fall. Our strength shall come from that great and respectable class, the men of no property

It is generally admitted, and very frequently proved, that virtue and genius, and all the natural good qualities which men possess, are derived from their mothers.

It appears to me that men are trying to speak for God instead of letting God speak for himself.

If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base and sordid creature, no matter how successful.

To every man who faces life with real desire to do his part in everything, I appeal for a study of the Bible.

For man plans, but God arranges.

Trust not to friends and kindred, neither do thou put off the care of thy soul's welfare til hereafter; for men will sooner forget thee than thou art aware of.

May not be your peace in the mouth of the men; since no matter if they thing good or bad about you, you should not be a different man because of that.

No man ruleth safely but he that is willingly ruled.

Such as every man is inwardly so he judgeth outwardly.

No man is safe above but he that will gladly be beneath.

A man of peace does more good than a very learned man.

No man doth safely rule, but he that hath learned gladly to obey.

All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.

Sloth is sluggishness of the mind which neglects to begin good...it is evil in its effect, if it so oppresses man as to draw him away entirely from good deeds.

It is a sin directly against one's neighbour, since one man cannot over-abound in external riches, without another man lacking them.

There is another man within me that's angry with me.

Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious.

All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him; if he front it not bravely, it will keep its word.

A man perfects himself by working.

A man shall never be enriched by envy.

Women accept their destiny more readily than men.

A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to.

Whatsoever is the object of any man's Appetite or Desire; that is it which he for his part calleth Good: and the object of his Hate and Aversion, evil.

For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.

Men had better be without education than be educated by their rulers.

Gambling makes boys selfish and cruel as well as men.

What men of science want is only a fair day's wages for more than a fair day's work.

I would rather be the offspring of two apes than be a man and afraid to face the truth.

I can never join Calvin in addressing his god. He was indeed an Atheist, which I can never be; or rather his religion was Daemonism. If ever man worshipped a false god, he did.

A man's moral sense must be unusually strong if slavery does not make him a thief.

Men, in teaching others, learn themselves.

To be ordinary is not a choice: It is the usual freedom of men without visions.

A humble man is not afraid of failure. In fact, he is not afraid of anything, even himself, since perfect humility implies perfect confidence in the power of God.

The only influence that can really upset the injustice and iniquity of men is the power that breathes in the Christian tradition, renewing our participation in the Life that is the Light of men.

The man who lives in division is living in death. He cannot find himself because he is lost; he has ceased to be a reality. The person he believes himself to be is a bad dream.

Every other man is a piece of myself, for I am a part and a member of mankind.

Man was made for the highest activity, which is, in fact, his rest.

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

A man does not serve God when he prays, for it is himself he is trying to serve

There is existing in man, a mass of sense lying in a dormant state. The construction of government ought to be such as to bring forward, by a quiet and regular operation, all that extent of capacity.

I have experienced a lot in my life - some good, some bad ­­ - but all of those experiences make up the man I am today.