Men Quotes

The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.

A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.

I would have every man write what he knows and no more.

Men throw themselves on foreign assistances to spare their own, which, after all, are the only certain and sufficient ones.

A man must not always tell all, for that be folly; but what a man says should be what he thinks.

Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!

A man may be humble through vainglory.

A man should keep for himself a little back shop, all his own, quite unadulterated, in which he establishes his true freedom and chief place of seclusion and solitude.

I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.

I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.

Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.

The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.

A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them.

Wine is the benevolent god, who gives back gaiety to men and restores youth to the old.

Now there cannot be first principles for men, unless the Divinity has revealed them; all the rest--beginning, middle, and end--isnothing but dreams and smoke.

The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty, according to their power.

Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.

A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents; but as to death, we can experience it but once, and are all apprentices when we come to it

A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.

Oh these foolish men! They could not create so much as a worm, but they create gods by the dozens.

But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes.

Examples teach us that in military affairs, and all others of a like nature, study is apt to enervate and relax the courage of man, rather than to give strength and energy to the mind.

A well-bred man is always sociable and complaisant.

Men are nothing until they are excited.

Man is forming thousands of ridiculous relations between himself and God.

A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men; for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.

Man will rise, if God by exception lends him a hand; he will rise by abandoning and renouncing his own means, and letting himselfbe raised and uplifted by purely celestial means.

No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.

Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.

He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.

Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterward forms itself into laws.

And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who judge a man by his bow, his bearing and his boots.

Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.

..a man may live long, yet live very little. Satisfaction in life depends not on the number of your years, but on your will.

The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.

There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.

No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.

How many worthy men have we known to survive their own reputation, who have seen and suffered the honor and glory most justly acquired in their youth, extinguished in their own presence?

Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.

We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.

When we see a man with bad shoes, we say it is no wonder, if he is a shoemaker.

An ancient father says that a dog we know is better company than a man whose language we do not understand.

The general order of things that takes care of fleas and moles also takes care of men, if they will have the same patience that fleas and moles have, to leave it to itself.

Not because Socrates said so,... I look upon all men as my compatriots.

There is a huge gulf between the man who follows the conventions and laws of his country and the man who sets out to regiment them and to change them.

How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!

The great and glorious masterpiece of men is to live to the point. All other things-to reign, to hoard, to build-are, at most, but inconsiderable props and appendages.

What a man hates, he takes seriously.

Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and uniform judgment.

Travelling through the world produces a marvellous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose.