Men Quotes

LADY BRACKNELL: Do you smoke? JACK: Well, yes, I must admit I smoke. LADY BRACKNELL: I'm glad to hear it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind.

To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.

LADY STUTFIELD I adore silent men. MRS ALLONBY Oh, Ernest isn't silent. He talks the whole time. But he has got no conversation. What he talks about I don't know. I haven't listened to him for years.

We preach to men as if they were conscious they were dying sinners, they are not; they are having a good time.

The man who prays ceases to be a fool

Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which to pray where no one knows you are praying, shut the door, and talk to God in secret.

It is better to enter into life maimed but lovely in God’s sight than to appear lovely to man’s eyes but lame to God’s.

One man or woman called of God is worth a hundred who have elected to work for God.

The men with God's 'go' in them have these three characteristics-a saving experience, the evidence of supernatural power at work, and the spiritual efficacy of success in prayer.

Our Lord did not say it was wrong to pray in the corners of the street, but He did say it was wrong to have the motive to "be seen of men".

Satan tried to put Jesus Christ on the way to becoming King of the world and Savior of men in a way other than that predetermined by God.

To understand a man is really to be that man.

The number of different aspects that the face of a man has assumed may be taken almost as a physiognomical measure of his ... genius.

It is the north wind that lashes men into Vikings; it is the soft, luscious south wind which lulls them to lotus dreams.

There is no applause that so flatters a man as that which he wrings from unwilling throats.

Opposition to a man in love is like oil to fire.

Women hope that the dead love may revive; but men know that of all dead things none are so past recall as a dead passion.

A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.

I have known men who have been sold and bought a hundred times, who have only got very fat and very comfortable in the process of exchange.

Bring a lawsuit against a man who can pay; the poor man's acts are not worth the expense

Haste is productive of injury, and so is too much hesitation. He is the wisest man who does everything at the proper time.

The wit of man has devised cruel statutes, And nature oft permits what is by law forbid.

Thy destiny is only that of man, but thy aspirations may be those of a god.

Heavens! what thick darkness pervades the minds of men. [Lat., Pro superi! quantum mortalia pectora caecae, Noctis habent.]

Fair peace is becoming to men; fierce anger belongs to beasts.

Riches too increase, and the maddening craving for gold, So that men ever seek for more, that they may have the most.

There is a good deal in a man's mode of eating.

The more highminded a man is the more easily is his anger appeased.

O ye gods! what thick encircling darkness blinds the minds of men!

The glow of inspiration warms us; this holy rapture springs from the seeds of the Divine mind sown in man.

Man looks aloft, and with erected eyes Beholds his hereditary skies.

To be thoroughly imbued, with the liberal arts refines the manners, and makes men to be mild and gentle in their conduct.

Here Jove with Hermes came; but in disguise Of mortal men conceal'd their deities; One laid aside his thunder, one his rod

There are as many characters in men As there are shapes in nature.

No man provokes me with impunity.

It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul.

The earth yields up her stores, of every ill The instigators; iron, foe to man, And gold, than iron deadlier.

The applause and the favour of our fellow-men Fan even a spark of genius to a flame.

Tis on the living Envy feeds. She silent grows When, after death, man's honor is his guard. So I, when on the pyre consumed I lie, Shall live, for all that's noblest will survive.

Man's last day must ever be awaited and none to be counted happy until his death, until his last funeral rites are paid.

Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.

All men will be Peters in their bragging tongue, and most men will be Peters in their base denial; but few men will be Peters in their quick repentance.

It is a most unhappy state to be at a distance with God: man needs no greater infelicity than to be left to himself.

That man is but of the lower part of the world that is not brought up to business and affairs.

The irresolute man flecks from one egg to another, so hatches nothing.

He that always waits upon God is ready whenever He calls. Neglect not to set your accounts even; he is a happy man who to lives as that death at all times may find him at leisure to die.

I wish I didn't have to perform 'Iron Man' every night.

Be good and honest to your fellow man and try to do something good for somebody.

Mick Jagger, the greatest of all front men I've ever met in my life.

I'm not the kind of person you think I am, I'm not the anti-Christ, or the iron man.