Men Quotes

Yeah, I don't think you can live anywhere else - it's such a great city [New York]. L.A. is kind of a necessary evil, but man, I love going back to New York.

Everyone wants to vote for the best and most qualified man, but he never runs for office.

It's almost worth the Great Depression to learn how little our big men know.

You can't tell what a man is like or what he is thinking when you are looking at him. You must get around behind him and see what he has been looking at.

Football is a violent game. We are violent men.

[Mark Twain] is still the rough, awkward, good-natured boy who swore at the deck hands when he was three years old. Thoroughly likeable as a good fellow, but impossible as a man of letters.

An idea in man is first impressed upon him and afterwards expressed in things, but in God it is only expressed, not impressed, because it does not come from anywhere else.

The passive receiving of Christ is the process by which a spiritual principle of grace is generated in the will of man.

The Christian man must aim at that complete obedience to God in which life finds its highest happiness, its greatest good, its perfect consummation, its peace.

The Christian is called upon to be the partner of God in the work of the conversion of men.

The creative man with an insight into human nature, with the artistry to touch and move people, will succeed. Without them he will fail.

Is creativity some obscure, esoteric art form? Not on your life. It's the most practical thing a business-man can employ.

I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care / Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go! put off holiness, / And put on intellect.

The Errors of a Wise Man make your Rule Rather than the Perfections of a Fool.

The Whole Business of Man is The Arts, & All Things Common.

Naught can deform the human race Like to the armor's iron brace.

Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; they are truly himself. The man who says that we have no innate ideas must be a fool and knave, having no conscience or innate science.

The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking by cowards.

Evil comes to us men of imagination wearing as its mask all the virtues.

Man has survived hitherto because he was too ignorant to know how to realise his wishes- Now that he can realise them, he must either change them or perish

You've got to appreciate the things that come from the art of the Negro and from the heart of the man farthest down.

There is nothing more unbecoming a man of quality than to laugh ... 'tis such a vulgar expression of the passion!

God never meant that man should scale the Heavens By strides of human wisdom. In his works, Though wondrous, he commands us in his word To seek him rather where his mercy shines.

Washington possessed the superb self-confidence that comes only to men whose inner life is faint, for the inner life is full of nameless doubts.

All men are just accumulations dolls stuffed with sawdust swept up from the trash heaps where all previous dolls had been thrown away.

Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.

Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.

Problems always appear big when incompetent men are working on them.

The wise man seeks little joys, knowing that life is long and that his quota of great joys is distinctly limited.

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Confidence gives a fool the advantage over a wise man.

Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied in himself.

A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.

As I was going up the stair I met a man who wan't there He wasn't there again today Oh I wish he'd go away!

Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.

Geniuses are commonly believed to excel other men in their power of sustained attention . . . But it is their genius making them attentive, not their attention making geniuses of them.

An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.

Any human love a man gets he can make fill his life. It's like the grain of mustard-seed.

A man who does not make mistakes does not make anything

If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.

One of the greatest of a great man's qualities is success; 't is the result of all the others; 't is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.

A gentleman doesn't have one set of manners for the house of a poor man and another for the house of someone with an income incomparable to his own.

The Working Man's Creed: "A short day is better than a short dollar" .

A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!

Let men be good, and the Government cannot be bad.

Levity of behavior, always a weakness, is far more unbecoming in a woman than a man.

If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not tell them to him.

Don't believe the man who tells you there are two sides to every question. There is only one side to the truth.

In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.

The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other; and even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is habitable.