Men Quotes

The really happy man never laughs - seldom - though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension - and the happy are not over strung.

In revenge a man is but even with his enemy; for it is a princely thing to pardon, and Solomon saith it is the glory of a man to pass over a transgression.

Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.

Simplicity of manner is the last attainment. Men are very long afraid of being natural, from the dread of being taken for ordinary.

Man only blames himself in order that he may be praised.

To be a great man it is necessary to turn to account all opportunities.

The great interests of man: air and light, the joy of having a body, the voluptuousness of looking.

A man often thinks he rules himself, when all the while he is ruled and managed; and while his understanding directs one design, his affections imperceptibly draw him into another.

Most men, like plants, possess hidden qualities which chance discovers.

The man whom no one pleases is much more unhappy than the man who pleases no one.

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

A man, in order to establish himself in the world, does everything he can to appear established there.

There is scarcely any man sufficiently clever to appreciate all the evil he does.

No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.

He is a truly virtuous man who wishes always to be open to the observation of honest men.

It is more difficult for a man to be faithful to his mistress when he is favored than when he is ill treated by her.

What men call friendship is no more than a partnership, a mutual care of interests, an exchange of favors - in a word, it is a sort of traffic, in which self-love ever proposes to be the gainer.

It is easier for a man to be thought fit for an employment that he has not, than for one he stands already possessed of, and is exercising.

Few men know all the ill they do.

Men sometimes think they hate flattery, but they hate only the manner of flattering.

A fool has not stuff enough to make a good man.

Perseverance is neither praiseworthy nor blameworthy; for it seems to be only the enduring of certain inclinations and opinions which men neither give themselves nor take away from themselves.

That which occasions so many mistakes in the computations of men, when they expect return for favors, is that the giver's pride and the receiver's cannot agree upon the value of the kindness done.

It is safer to do most men harm than to do them too much good.

A man is ridiculous less through the characteristics he has than through those he affects to have.

We exaggerate the glory of some men in order to detract from that of others.

Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste.

The good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune.

A man's wits are better employed in bearing up under the misfortunes that lie upon him at present than in foreseeing those that may come upon him hereafter.

Silence is the best security to the man who distrusts himself.

A man is perhaps ungrateful, but often less chargeable with ingratitude than his benefactor is.

All wars are civil ones; for it is still man spilling his own blood, tearing out his own bowels.

Men only go for skinny women because they're too weak to argue - and salads are cheap.

Advertising is a business within a business and the man who neglects it will soon find himself with a business without a business.

A man's flesh is his own; the water belongs to the tribe.

I always wanted to be the strongest man on the field. Most of the time, they said I was lifting too much but I didn't believe in that at all.

We must recognize the fundamental rights of man. There can be no true national life in our democracy unless we give unqualified recognition to freedom of religious worship and freedom of education.

Feeling and thinking are actually the blind man who carries the lame.

Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.

Distinctly different as a child, as an adolescent, in his prime and in his old age, man considers himself as one, not because he acts, but because he knows.

The noble woman is half a man, even a complete one. Only their imperfections make them women.

The whole visible world is perhaps nothing more than the rationalization of a man who wants to find peace for a moment.

I'm going to Boston to see my doctor. He's a very sick man.

Without men, civilization would last until the oil needed changing.

Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.

Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.

It was useless to try to corner a man who told stories. It was like trying to drink all the water in a lake to get at a bright pebble on the bottom of it.