Men Quotes
Technology plows through history at an accelerating rate, shifting the burden of production off labor into the nonhuman factor because man uses his highest ingenuity to avoid servile labor.
Like the whale who swallowed Jonah, we have engulfed all national dishes known to civilized man and made them in delight, if not in name our own.
I was thinking what a curious thing love is; only a sentiment, and yet it has power to make fools of men and slaves of women.
... because I have fallen in love with so many pretty girls and never once the least bit with any man.
No love or pity, pardon or excuse should soften the sharp pang of reparation for the guilty man.
For the wise old man was universally beloved, and ministered so beautifully to his flock that many of them thanked him all their lives for the help given to both hearts and souls.
Now we are expected to be as wise as men who have had generations of all the help there is, and we scarcely anything.
I feel that women 'and men,' but I mean the 'individual,' can be totally feminine and still be totally powerful.
The question arises as to whether it is possible not to live in the world of men and still to live in the world.
What men call adventures usually consist of the stoical endurance of appalling daily misery.
To sew is to pray. Men don't understand this. They see the whole but they don't see the stitches. They don't see the speech of the creator in the work of the needle.
How in the hell could God take the black earth and make himself a white man out of it?
Our errors and our controversies, in the sphere of morality, arise sometimes from looking on men as though they could be altogether bad, or altogether good.
Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame.
A man can hardly be said to have made a fortune if he does not know how to enjoy it.
Men dissimulate their dearest, most constant, and most virtuous inclination from weakness and a fear of being condemned.
Men despise great projects when they do not feel themselves capable of great successes.
The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.
It is unjust to exact that men shall do out of deference to our advice what they have no desire to do for themselves.
A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle.
The falsest of all philosophies is that which, under the pretext of delivering men from the embarrassment of their passions, counsels idleness and the abandonment and neglect of themselves.
In order to protect himself from force, man was obliged to submit to justice. Justice or force: he was compelled to choose between the two masters, so little are we made to be independent.
Learn to overrule minor interest in favor of great ones, and generously to do all the good the heart prompts; a man is never injured by acting virtuously.
I was just watching "So You Think You Can Dance," flipping channels, and I was like man, I could never do that.
With Southern actors you always think you're from the same place. Even if one is from Texas, one is from Georgia, you're like, "oh, you're just down the street, man."
Avarice is a cursed vice: offer a man enough gold, and he will part with his own small hoard of food, however great his hunger.
Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.
If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
For out of doubt In these affairs 'tis each man's will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.
I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.
The outer prisons are made by the community to contain those who have dared break its laws. The inner prisons each man makes for himself because of what he feels are his transgressions.
Ruby Gillis thinks of nothing but young men, and the older she gets the worse she is. Young men are all very well in their place, but it doesn't do to drag them into everything, does it?
A black man, but I feel so blue. So I smoke green and purple to my dreams come true. And my eyes turn red, the sky turns grey.
There are philosophies which are unendurable not because men are cowards, but because they are men.
In order to succeed in business a man does not need a degree from a school of business administration. These schools train the subalterns for routine jobs. They certainly do not train entrepreneurs.