Men Quotes

... can life be made undignified by any act of man?

The mass of men live lives of quiet exasperation.

I am he / Who champions total liberty - / Intolerance being, ma'am, a state / No tolerant man can tolerate.

One solution might be to impose the duty on admissions officers to arbitrarily admit only half women and half men.

The true science and study of mankind is man.

The proper Science and Subject for Man's Contemplation is Man himself. [Fr., La vraie science et le vrai etude de l'homme c'est l'homme.]

[Envy not for...] Whatever difference there may appear to be in men's fortunes, there is still a certain compensation of good and ill in all, that makes them equal.

Every brave man is a man of his word; to such base vices he cannot stoop, and shuns more than death the shame of lying.

Ah, though a Roman, I am not less a man.

If you love a man, immediately you will reduce your intake of food - it's automatic.

I lost two of the greatest men I've ever known to assassination - and a son to suicide.

From an evolutionary point of view, man has stopped moving, if he ever did move.

Who is it that said that 'you have not converted a man because you have silenced him?' This is true of the use of the military on people.

I feel religion is basically and essentially a communication between a man and his God and I think it is the most personal thing of all and I don't think it concerns too many people.

If every man's internal care Were written on his brow, How many would our pity share Who raise our envy now?

Success abides longer among men when it is planted by the hand of God.

Man's pleasure is a short time growing And it falls to the ground As quickly.

Rich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death.

If any man thinks to swindle God, he is wrong.

Skills vary with the man. We must tread a straight path and strive by that which is born in us.

My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.

He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.

I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse.

Those who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.

The wisdom of men is worth little or nothing.

No one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.

Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you.

Of all the things which a man has, next to the gods his soul is the most divine and most truly his own.

It is a great plague to be too handsome a man. [Lat., Nimia est miseria nimis pulchrum esse hominem.]

Man is no man, but a wolf

It is not without a purpose when a rich man greets a poor one with kindness.

Women have many faults, but the worst of them all is that they are too pleased with themselves and take too little pains to please the men.

That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family.

The gods play games with men as balls.

The gods give that man some profit to whom they are propitious. [Lat., Cui homini dii propitii sunt aliquid objiciunt lucri.]

Man is not man, but a wolf to those he does not know.

No man has perpetual good fortune. [Lat., Nulli est homini perpetuum bonum.]

How great in number are the little minded men

I've seen many men avoid the region of good advice before they were really near it.

Man's fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable. [Lat., Actutum fortunae solent mutarier; varia vita est.]

Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.

Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.

A man with courage has every blessing.

In wondrous ways do the gods make sport with men. [Lat., Miris modis Di ludos faciunt hominibus.]

It is common to forget a man and slight him if his good will cannot help you.

The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.

We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.

A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.

Man naturally yearns for novelty.

No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.