Men Quotes

The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle

The man of the true religious tradition understands two things: liberty and obedience. The first means knowing what you really want. The second means knowing what you really trust.

A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.

When it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity.

Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion.

Every man speaks of public opinion, and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion.

When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.

Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.

The English are no nearer than they were a hundred years ago to knowing what Jefferson really meant when he said that God had created all men equal.

The men of the East may spell the stars, And times and triumphs mark, But the men signed of the cross of Christ Go gaily in the dark.

The comedy of man survives the tragedy of man.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman.

Humour is meant, in a literal sense, to make game of man; that is, to dethrone him from his official dignity and hunt him like game.

Architecture is the alphabet of giants; it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of men. A tower stands up like a sort of simplified stature, of much more than heroic size.

He who has no sympathy with myths has no sympathy with men.

Obviously if any actions, even a lunatic's, can be causeless, determinism is done for. If the chain of causation can be broken for a madman, it can be broken for a man.

If a man says that he is Jesus Christ, it is no answer to tell him that the world denies his divinity; for the world denied Christ's.

To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.

If the common man in the past had a grave respect for property, it may conceivably have been because he sometimes had some of his own.

We ought to be interested in that darkest and most real part of a man in which dwell not the vices that he does not display, but the virtues that he cannot.

If you know what a man's doing, get in front of him; but if you want to guess what he's doing keep behind him.

The truth is that there are no things for which men will make such herculean efforts as the things of which they know they are unworthy.

All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.

And it is always the humble man who talks too much; the proud man watches himself too closely.

Ingratitude is surely the chief of the intellectual sins of man. He takes his political benefits for granted, just as he takes the skies and the seasons for granted.

No man must be superior to the things that are common to men.... Not only are we all in the same boat, but we are all seasick.

Every man who will not have softening of the heart must at last have softening of the brain

Instead of the machine being a giant to which the man is the pygmy, we must at last reverse the proportions until man is a giant to whom the machine is the toy.

You never know the best about men until you know the worst about them.

Only poor men get hanged.

Oh, most unhappy man,' he cried, 'try to be happy! You have red hair like your sister.' My red hair, like red flames, shall burn up the world,' said Gregory.

Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.

Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. But what does he do if there is no forest? He grows a forest to hide it in.

if a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small.

I am more than a devil; I am a man. I can do the one thing which Satan himself cannot do— I can die.

A man cannot deserve adventures; he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.

A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.

There is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth

Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred.

A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.

Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.

By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men.

Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.

It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them.

All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor man just stout enough to do the work and just thin enough to have to do it.

When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything.

Man is at his tallest when he bows.

The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun; it is imagination.

The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction, just as each man is alone in a dream.