Men Quotes

The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.

There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character; and to try to alter this is like training a sheep for draught purposes.

Is it so unjust that a man should leave the world by the same gate through which he entered it?

Man is perhaps half mind and half matter in the same way as the polyp is half plant and half animal. The strangest creatures are always found on the border lines of species.

Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.

Propositions on which all men are in agreement are true: if they are not true we have no truth at all.

A good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

God creates the animals, man creates himself.

A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.

Truly, men make too little use of their lives; and so it is no wonder that the world should still be in such a poor way.

True love does not paralyze, but doubles the high qualities of man.

Christianity had ceased to be the creed of the poor. He spoke with pompous exaggeration. Whether man were the best or the worst of created beings.

History teaches us that man learns nothing from history

Jesus Christ tells us that a man cannot be wrong if he argues towards God from what he finds best in himself.

A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words.

The only literary men are those who have to work at it.

Society is the master, and man is the servant.

It is an error to suppose that a man belongs to himself. No man does. He belongs to his wife, or his children, or his relations, or to his creditors, or to society in some form or other.

A tall young man sped swiftly up the wide stone steps leading to the doorway of a mansion in one of Chicago's most fashionable avenues.

Faith in to-morrow, instead of Christ, is Satan's nurse for man's perdition.

You can lose a man like that by your own death, but not by his.

Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.

I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.

If a man is indolent, let him be poor. If he is drunken, let him be poor.... Also--somewhat inconsistently--blessed are the poor!

What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.

Life is a disease; and the only difference between on man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.

The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man.

Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.

A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.

When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.

God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit.

You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.

Have you no morals, man?' 'Can't afford them,Governor.

A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.

It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it.

A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.

Most married couples spend the whole day apart, the woman in the house, the man in the office or study or workshop.

Has fear ever held a man back from anything he really wanted?

A man's behaviour may be quite harmless and even beneficial, when he ismorally behaving like a scoundrel. And he may do great harm when he is morally acting on the highest principles.

HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.

A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.

Get married, but never to a man who is home all day.

Men are always thinking that they are going to do something grandly wicked to their enemies; but when it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.

Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor; and the doctor is a specially dangerous man when poor.

It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.