Men Quotes

Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction.

The whole force of the State is at your back if you should need it. I'm afraid that all the queen's horses and all the queen's men cannot avail in this matter.

It is a fool's plan to teach a man to be a cur in peace, and think that he will be a lion in war.

The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.

It is the small men and not the great who hold their noses in the air.

I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being.

If my future were black, it was better surely to face it like a man than to attempt to brighten it by mere will-o’-the-wisps of the imagination.

A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the theory of reincarnation.

I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who’s half a man, Or the man who’s half a boy.

I love and am loved by a better man than he.

Perhaps, when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand.

Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.

Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.

What we makes of the world must be largely dependent on the sense-organs that we happen to possess. How the world must have changed since the man came to rely on his eyes rather than his nose.

As an American man of the 1990s writing about a Japanese woman of the 1930s, I needed to cross three cultural divides - man to woman, American to Japanese, and present to past.

And when I raised myself to look at the man who'd spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me there on the stone wall.

A geisha has studied a man's moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms.

The stones that critics hurl with harsh intent, a man may use to build his monument.

Obviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on which he bases it

Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.

The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.

It has been said with some meaning that if men would but rest in silence, they might always hear the music of the spheres.

The thing which makes one man greater than another, the quality by which we ought to measure greatness, is a man's capacity for loving.

The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege.

Men of much depth of mind can bear a great deal of counsel; for it does not easily deface their own character, nor render their purposes indistinct.

Old things need not be therefore true, O brother men, nor yet the new; Ah! still awhile the old thought retain, And yet consider it again!

Dance on, dance on, we see, we see Youth goes, alack, and with it glee, A boy the old man ne'er can be; Maternal thirty scarce can find The sweet sixteen long left behind.

Does any sane man imagine that the church could cease to be missionary and remain the church?

A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another.

History had a slow pulse; man counted in years, history in generations

Hitherto man had to live with the idea of death as an individual; from now onward mankind will have to live with the idea of its death as a species.

The 'missing link' between ape and man will probably never be found- because it was an embryo.

Man generally is entangled in insoluble problems; history is consequently a tragedy in which we are all involved, whose keynote is anxiety and frustration, not progress and fulfilment.

Brave men earn the right to shape their own destiny.

The Incarnation is the medicine of the soul, undoing the Fall and bringing man to the Tree of Life, and the office of a priest is to administer this medicine in the sacraments.

It is time that we, who are without kings, took up this bright thread of our history and followed it to the only place it can possibly lead in our time-the heart and spirit of the average man.

Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small.

A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.

Most men are so thoroughly subjective that nothing really interests them but themselves.

To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.

A man of correct insight among those who are duped and deluded resembles one whose watch is right while all the clocks in the town give the wrong time.

It is only when a man is alone that he is really free.

To expect a man to retain everything that he has ever read is like expecting him to carry about in his body everything that he has ever eaten.

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.

Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.

there are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?

A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of applying the maxim, Know Thyself.

In truth the most striking figure for the relation of the two is that of the strong blind man carrying the sighted lame man on his shoulders.

The conviction that the world and man is something that had better not have been, is of a kind to fill us with indulgence towards one another.

The progress of life shows a man the stuff of which he is made.