Men Quotes

It is time the clergy are told that thinking men, after a close examination of that doctrine, pronounce it to be subversive of true moral development and, therefore, positively noxious.

I trust you as holy men trust God; you could do nought that was not pure and loving, though the deed might pierce me unto death.

autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes called 'Memoirs.

It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us; as if life were not sacred too.

In the ages since Adam's marriage, it has been good for some men to be alone, and for some women also.

Opinions: men's thoughts about great subjects. Taste: their thoughts about small ones: dress, behavior, amusements, ornaments.

When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book.

If you are to rule men, you must rule them through their own ideas.

... we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance.

Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning.

Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow men beyond the bounds of our personal lot.

Education is an asset no man can take away.

Women are like pictures: of no value in the hands of a fool till he hears men of sense bid high for the purchase.

It is a maxim that man and wife should never have it in their power to hang one another.

The man who hates war more than he hates the Nazis is a wicked man.

In a way, we can have a much easier discussion about the future of technology than we can about why a young man kills another man in a war.

To every man it is decreed: Thou shalt live alone. Happy they who imagine that they have escaped the common lot; happy, whilst they imagine it.

Literature nowadays is a trade... the successful man of letters is your skilful tradesman. He thinks first and foremost of the markets.

The school depends not on man, or any set of men. God planted it, and we are but gardeners to take care of it.

Christianity has nothing to offer a happy man living in a natural, intelligible universe.

It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how comfortable or sacred that falsehood may appear.

Ozone Man, Ozone. He's crazy, way out, far out, man.

Their (Liverpool) fans are being man-marked by the Italian police.

Man can become purified, and with divine vision he can see God. You get pure by chanting, then you see Him.

It is not enough that a man has clearness of vision, and reliance on sincerity, he must also have the art of expression, or he will remain obscure.

A man must be himself convinced if he is to convince others. The prophet must be his own disciple, or he will make none. Enthusiasm is contagious: belief creates belief.

A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.

When God at first made man, Having a glass of blessings standing by, 'Let us,'said he,'pour on him all we can: Let the world's riches, which disperse' d lie, Contract into a span'.

If a good man thrive, all thrive with him.

The best remedy against an ill man is much ground betweene both. [The best remedy against an ill man is much ground between both.]

The healthfull man can give counsell to the sick.

Every ill man hath his ill day.

Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing unto him. [Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing to him.]

Shewa good man his errour and he turnes it to a vertue, but an ill, it doubles his fault.

Some men plant an opinion they seem to erradicate.

Speake not of a dead man at the table.

Take heed of the wrath of a mighty man, and the tumult of the people.

The cholerick man never wants woe.

The corne hides it self in the snow, as an old man in furrs.

The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.

The life of man is a winter way.

The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence. [The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence.]

The Philosophy of Princes is to dive into the Secrets of men, leaving the secrets of nature to those that have spare time.

The sight of a man hath the force of a Lyon.

The singing man keepes his shop in his throate.

There are more men threatned then stricken. [There are more men threatened than stricken.]

There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.

There is no man, though never so little, but sometimes he can hurt.

They that hold the greatest farmes, pay the least rent (applyed to rich men that are unthankful to God).

Though you see a Church-man ill, yet continue in the Church still.