Men Quotes

The lazy man does not, will not, cannot pray, for prayer demands energy.

The only man who can't change his mind is a man who hasn't got one

A woman, no matter the age, is always learning, always becoming. But a man . . . stops learning at fourteen or so.

Earth bears no balsams for mistakes; Men crown the knave, and scourge the tool That did his will: but thou, O Lord, Be merciful to me, a fool.

Man makes a death which Nature never made. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.

The soul of man was made to walk the skies.

Men are but men; we did not make ourselves.

Men should press forward, in fame's glorious chase; Nobles look backward, and so lose the race.

Men before you have quit smoking - you can too!

All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.

A foe to God ne'er was true friend to man, Some sinister intent taints all he does.

The man that makes a character, makes foes.

Wouldst thou be famed? have those high acts in view, Brave men would act though scandal would ensue.

The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.

Let no man trust the first false step of guilt; it hangs upon a precipice, whose steep descent in last perdition ends.

Ah, how unjust to Nature and himself Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man!

Man wants little, nor that little long.

There is nothing of which men are more liberal than their good advice, be their stock of it ever so small; because it seems to carry in it an intimation of their own influence, importance or worth.

Where Nature's end of language is declin'd, And men talk only to conceal the mind.

The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away.

The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze.

When men once reach their autumn, sickly joys fall off apace, as yellow leaves from trees

Man wants but little, nor that little long; How soon must he resign his very dust, Which frugal nature lent him for an hour!

This vast and solid earth, that blazing sun, Those skies, thro' which it rolls, must all have end. What then is man? The smallest part of nothing.

Old men love novelties; the last arriv'd Still pleases best; the youngest steals their smiles.

A Christian is the highest style of man.

Angels are men of a superior kind; Angels are men in lighter habit clad.

A man of pleasure is a man of pains.

A man I knew who lived upon a smile, And well it fed him; he look'd plump and fair, While rankest venom foam'd through every vein.

Body and soul, like peevish man and wife, United jar, and yet are loth to part.

Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man.

Affliction is the good man's shining scene; prosperity conceals his brightest ray; as night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.

I never thought about that ever throughout the entire course of my career about choosing a specific role because it would make me seem more man-like.

Freedom is one of the principal goals of human endeavor, but the best use man can make of his freedom is to place limitations upon it.

For soon, very soon do men forget Their friends upon whom Death's seal is set.

Physically, man is but an atom in space, and a pulsation in time. Spiritually, the entire outward universe receives significance from him, and the scope of his existence stretches beyond the stars.

Humanity is so constituted that the basest criminal represents you and me, as well as the most glorious saint that walks on high. We are reflected in all other men; all other men are embodied in us.

Many a man who might walk over burning ploughshares into heaven stumbles from the path because there is gravel in his shoes.

Most men are less afraid of ghosts than of facts.

Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.

A man can no more be a Christian without facing evil and conquering it than he can be a soldier without going to battle, facing the cannon's mouth, and encountering the enemy in the field.

God's work is freedom. Freedom is dear to his heart. He wishes to make man's will free, and at the same time wishes it to be pure, majestic, and holy.

No great truth bursts upon man without having its hemisphere of darkness and sorrow.

And for a sucker play a man gets sucker pay; for the paymaster is on the job and never losses the pay envelope that is coming to you.

When the man who ought to want a stock doesn't want it, why should I want it?

A woman's uniqueness is her greatest appeal to a man - and his greatest challenge.

Men tend to feel threatened; women tend to feel guilty.

Lincoln, the Man of the People

That in the human plan nothing is worth the making if it does not make the man.

Mr. Rihani is a man of ardent poetic temperament, a clever poet, and a man of unworldly ideals.