Men Quotes

It is part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees.

I'm not the man to baulk at a low smell, I'm not the man to insist on asphodel. This sounds like a He-fellow, don't you think? It sounds like that. I belch, I bawl, I drink.

The ghost of the heart of manred Cain And the more murderous brain Of Man, still redder Nero that conceived the death Of his mother Earth, and tore Her womb, to know the place where he was conceived.

A man does not fight to win; it is better to fight in vain.

The exercise of freedom invariably results in some choices that are unwise or wrong. But, by living with the consequences of his foolish choices a man learns to choose more wisely next time.

No man is competent to manage another.

Man is by his constitution a religious animal.

Thank God, men that art greatly guilty are never wise.

Man is an animal that cooks his victuals.

Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic.

The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of an abandoned spirit to have no regard to it.

Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.

Men have no right to what is not reasonable, and to what is not for their benefit.

Man is by his constitution a religious animal; atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts.

Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures.

There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.

Man acts from adequate motives relative to his interest, and not on metaphysical speculations.

Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and a series of unconnected arts. Though just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature.

The critic's first labor is the task of distinguishing between men, as history and their works display them, and the ideals which one and another have conspired to urge upon his acceptance.

Lo, as I gaze, the statured man, Built up from you large hand appears: A type that nature wills to plan But once in all a people's years.

It is too often seen, that the wiser men are about the things of this world, the less wise they are about the things of the next.

Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit!

For that which all men then did virtue call, Is now called vice; and that which vice was hight, Is now hight virtue, and so used of all: Right now is wrong, and wrong that was is right

The man whom nature's self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.

For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.

What use of oaths, of promise, or of test, where men regard no God but interest?

To man, that was in th' evening made, Stars gave the first delight; Admiring, in the gloomy shade, Those little drops of light.

There was I, devouring books and yet allowing a man who had never read a book to walk me home for a bit of harmless fumbling on the front steps.

Life must go on, Though good men die.

But she was not made for any man, and she will never be all mine.

Satan is cunning and man is weak, but God rules the heart of his faithful, and does what he will.

Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness - the work.

A man´s level of dignity must always be above his level of fear.

There are those who believe destiny rests at the feet of the gods, but the truth is that it confronts the conscious of man with a burning challenge.

A man without passion would be like a body without a soul. Or even more grotesque, like a soul without a body.

Women truly are better than men. Otherwise, they'd be intolerable.

I have been a lucky man. But someone has to be.

I find more and more, as I grow older, that I prefer women to men, children to adults, animals to humans.... And rocks to living things? No, I'm not that old yet.

In everything but brains and brawn, women are vastly superior to men. A different race.

You can't belay a man who's falling in love.

The love of a man for his wife, his child, of the land where he lives and works, is for me the real meaning of mystical experience.

Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so.

A man is not aware of his virtues (if any). Nevertheless, one hopes that they exist.

For this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good enough.

Once upon a time, I dreamed of becoming a great man. Later, a good man. Now, finally, I find it difficult enough and honor enough to be -- a man.

We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.

Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.

Every man should be his own guru; every woman her own gurette.

Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy.

For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end. For a man, it is an end in itself.