Men Quotes

No man can see his own prejudices.

The condition of women affords in all countries the best criterion by which to judge the character of men.

I'm going to give you God's truth, little girl. All men want to do is hurt you. Once you give them your heart, they tear it to shreds." ~Francine Rivers; Redeeming Love

If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.

No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.

A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.

Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.

Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.

Great riches have sold more men than they have bought.

It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.

One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the great break through.

In mathematics I can report no deficiency, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of Pure Mathematics.

More dangers have deceived men than forced them.

He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry? 'A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.'

One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men.

Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.

When any of the four pillars of government-religion, justice, counsel, and treasure-are mainly shaken or weakened, men had need to pray for fair weather.

For behavior, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another.

Medical men do not know the drugs they use, nor their prices.

Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?

Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.

For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.

If a man's wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores, splitters of hairs.

I knew a wise man that had it for a by-word, when he saw men hasten to a conclusion, "Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner."

Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, is limited in act and understanding by his observation of the order of nature; neither his understanding nor his power extends further.

I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.

Atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.

The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions.

He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.

Vices of the time; vices of the man.

The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man.

Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences.

Mark what a generosity and courage (a dog) will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a God

The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.

But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this-that men despair and think things impossible.

Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.

When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

The world's a bubble, and the life of man, Less than a span.

There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances.

The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.

Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.

The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer.

Come home to men's business and bosoms.

A lie faces God and shrinks from man.

The more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth.

Men ought to find the difference between saltiness and bitterness. Certainly, he that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid of his wit, so he had need be afraid of others' memory.

Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical.

The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he more readily believes.