Men Quotes

You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.

What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity.

The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death.

The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him.

The domestic career is no more natural to all women than the military career is natural to all men.

There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.

I occasionally swank a little because people like it; a modest man is such a nuisance.

I am very subtle; but Man is deeper in his thought than I am. The woman knows that there is no such thing as nothing: the man knows that there is no such day as tomorrow. I do well to worship them.

That's what children do - throw food. That's not fighting. We were real men. We'd have chinned them.

Biographies by preachers are of no value. If they admire a man they always make him a saint, while if they dislike one, they always make him a demon.

It's legal for men to be floorwalkers and illegal for women to be streetwalkers.

An art thief is a man who takes pictures.

Meanwhile, followers of Eastern religions are sitting in the middle of their minds, experiencing a bliss and a level of consciousness that Western man can't begin to approach.

There is a nick in Fortune's restless wheel For each man's good.

Who hath no faith to man, to God hath none.

Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err.

Man is a torch borne in the wind; a dream But of a shadow, summed with all his substance.

Tis immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven.

Life's a lottery, and man should make up his mind to the blanks.

Oh! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead, To find such numbers who will serve instead: And in whatever state a man be thrown, 'Tis that precisely they would wish their own.

Some men's ugliness is hard to beat.

What holy cities are to nomadic tribes — a symbol of race and a bond of union — great books are to the wandering souls of men: they are the Meccas of the mind.

I believe that ideal character in its perfection is potentially in every man who is born into the world.

What faith in man must in our new world beat, Thinking how once he saw before his face The west and all the host of stars retreat Into the silent infinite of space!

It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream.

There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles.

There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.

It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.

but very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings.

The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.

If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else.

A child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts." —WORDSWORTH.

A man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it to-morrow.

The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.

Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.

There are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence.

Husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order.

I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom that has not done it, in the beginning.

Human longings are perversely obstinate; and to the man whose mouth is watering for a peach, it is of no use to offer the largest vegetable marrow.

To men who only aim at escaping felony, nothing short of the prisoner's dock is disgrace.

That sort of reputation which precedes performance [is] often the larger part of a man's fame.

In the love of a brave and faithful man there is always a strain of maternal tenderness; he gives out again those beams of protecting fondness which were shed on him as he lay on his mother's knee.

Who can know how much of his most inward life is made up of the thoughts he believes other men to have about him, until that fabric of opinion is threatened with ruin?

There are but two sorts of government: one where men show their teeth at each other, and one where men show their tongues and lick the feet of the strongest.

The soul of man, when it gets fairly rotten, will bear you all sorts of poisonous toad-stools, and no eye can see whence came the seed thereof.

When we are dead : it is the living only who cannot be forgiven the living only from whom men's indulgence and reverence are held off, like the rain by the hard east wind .

Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.