Men Quotes

[R]ights do not belong to men simply as men, but because of the superior qualities, physical, intellectual, moral or political, which are characteristic of certain individuals or races.

The happy married man dies in good stile at home, surrounded by his weeping wife and children. The old bachelor don't die at all — he sort of rots away, like a pollywog's tail.

It had been a perfect nap - the sort a man runs into now and again by chance.

The truly civilized man has no enemies.

It is absurd to suppose, if this is God's world, that men must always be selfish barbarians.

It is a common remark that men talk most who think least; just as frogs cease their quacking when a light is brought to the water-side.

Music is one of the ways that God has of beating in on man.

Toleration in religion was one of the great rights of man, and a man ought never to be deprived of what was his natural right.

I've been a lucky man. I've only faced one real tragedy: the death of my wife, Maggie, from cancer in 1995.

There has never been any 30-hour week for men who had anything to do.

A research problem is not solved by apparatus; it is solved in a man's head.

For men must work and women must weep, And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep.

So fleet the works of men, back to their earth again;Ancient and holy things fade like a dream.

Men must work, and women must weep.

Obama is a man of first-class intellect and first-class temperament. But his character remains highly suspect.

Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works.

Trample not on the ruins of a man.

A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company; everybody is so much more ready to produce his own, than to call for a display of your acquisitions.

Man, while he loves, is never quite depraved.

The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.

The only true time which a man can properly call his own, is that which he has all to himself; the rest, though in some sense he may be said to live it, is other people's time, not his.

The English writer, Charles Lamb, said one day: "I hate that man." "But you don't know him." "Of course, I don't," said Lamb. "Do you think I could possibly hate a man I know?"

Science has succeeded to poetry, no less in the little walks of children than with men. Is there no possibility of averting this sore evil?

There was a little man, and he had a little soul; And he said, Little Soul, let us try, try, try!

It is well if the good man himself does not feel his devotions a little clouded, those foggy sensuous steams mingling with and polluting the pure altar surface.

I can scarce bring myself to believe, that I am admitted to a familiar correspondence, and all the license of friendship, with a man who writes blank verse like Milton.

Nothing perhaps has so retarded the reception of the higher conclusions of Geology among men in general, as ... [the] instinctive parsimony of the human mind in matters where time is concerned.

No matter how skillfully a man play the game of life, there is but one test of his ability--did he win?

I grow aware of various forms of man and of myself. I am form and I am formless, I am life and I am matter, mortal and immortal. I am one and many -- myself and humanity in flux.

Man is a mixture of desires that extend beyond his knowledge and often result in action conflicting with rationality.

As civilization advances, man grows unconscious of the primitive elements of life; he is separated from them by his perfection of material techniques.

Whatever a man imagines he can attain, if he doesn't become too arrogant and encroach on the rights of the gods.

If we can combine our knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness, if we can nurture civilization through roots in the primitive, man's potentialities appear to be unbounded.

I enjoy looking at your face... Whenever I look at your face, a question always comes to my mind... Will man ever succeed in reaching the moon?

The man who counts his hours and kicks about his salary is a self-elected failure.

One of the most successful men I have known never carried a watch until he began to earn ten thousand dollars a year.

I have yet to hear an instance where misfortune hit a man because he worked overtime. I know lots of instances where it hit men who did not.

The man who has done his best has done everything. The man who has done less than his best has done nothing.

It may be in seemingly unimportant things that a man expresses his passion for perfection, yet they will count heavily in the long run.

The man who fails to give fair service during the hours for which he is paid is dishonest. The man who is not willing to give more than this is foolish.

I am sure that few successful men are so-called 'natural geniuses.'

There is not a man in power at our Bethlehem steel works today who did not begin at the bottom and work his way up.

The inventor, the man with a unique, specialized talent, is the only real super-genius. But he is so rare that he needs no consideration.

Aid the dawning, tongue and pen; Aid it, hopes of honest men!

There is no knowing what is in a man's heart.

Still, it will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system.

No man can in any measure resemble the scripture saints.

Sensible men show their sense by saying much in few words. If noble actions are the substance of life, good sayings are its ornament and guide.

No man has a right to do as he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.

Self-approbation, when founded in truth and a good conscience, is a source of some of the purest joys known to man.