Men Quotes
...it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man if he will make a business of it.
That man alone loves himself rightly who procures the greatest possible good to himself through the whole of his existence and so pursues pleasure as not to give for it more than it is worth.
Men's minds do not die with their bodies but are made more happy or miserable after this life according to their actions.
We have no poor houses in the Colonies, and if we had, we would have no one to put in them, as in the Colonies there is not a single unemployed man, no poor and no vagabonds.
The greatest inventions are those inquiries which tend to increase the power of man over matter.
When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death.
The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively.
Men differ daily about things which are subject to sense, is it likely then they should agree about things invisible.
Men of genius are often considered superstitious, but the fact is, the fineness of their nerve renders them more alive to the supernatural than ordinary men.
How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness!
If men would only take the chances of doing right because it is right, instead of the immediate certainty of the advantage of doing wrong, how much happier would their lives be.
I love to dance and I'd love to be saying goodbye to my friends while the band was playing and they were dancing...I want them to remember I was a dancing man in my day.
Nothing enlarges the gulf of atheism more than the wide passage that lies between the faith and lives of men pretending to teach Christianity.
You think of George Washington, this man who was larger than life, and in some ways he was. But at the same time, he's just a person.
Will, without reason, is a blind man's motion; will, against reason, is a madman's motion.
None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.
It is impossible for a man to be made happy by putting him in a happy place, unless he be first in a happy state.
Every man is born with the faculty of reason and the faculty of speech, but why should he be able to speak before he has anything to say?
Such an explication of Grace as sets men at liberty in morals, makes void the Law through Faith.
It is hypocrisy for man to make any other use of his religion, or the credit of it, than to sanctify and save his soul.
If a man will be righteous and equal, let him see, with his neighbour's eyes, in his own case; and with his own eyes, in his neighbour's case.
Repentance doth alter a man's case with God: and therefore repentance should alter the case between one man and another.
An idol is what man makes and then has to carry. God makes a man and then carries him.
Being a man is bullshit; maybe trying to be a man had been the problem all along. At a certain point you just have to trust someone. Even if it’s only yourself.
Names have power. In certain cultures, just speaking a man's name gives you mastery over him.
The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.
Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.
