Men Quotes

For, rightly, every man is a channel through which heaven floweth, and, whilst I fancied I was criticising him, I was censuring orrather terminating my own soul.

In all things I would have the island of a man inviolate. Let us sit apart as the gods, talking from peak to peak all round Olympus. No degree of affection need invade this religion.

We are such lovers of self-reliance, that we excuse in a man many sins, if he will show us a complete satisfaction in his position, which asks no leave to be, of mine, or any man's good opinion.

The finished man of the world must eat of every apple once.

A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.

With most men, scarce a link of memory holds yesterday and to-day together.

When a man meets his make, society begins.

It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.

The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.

Let a man behave in his own house as a guest.

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks Greek architecture is the perfect flowering of geometry.

Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty.

Every man is a new method.

The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men.

For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world.

In every man's memory, with the hours when life culminated are usually associated certain books which met his views.

If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular thing, and every thing, and every man.

It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual wants, never to please his fancy.

Think me not unkind and rude That I walk alone in grove and glen; I go to the god of the wood To fetch his word to men.

The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic importance of their contents to the constant mind of man.

Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his design;--and posterity seem to follow his steps as a train of clients.

I quote another man's saying; unluckily, that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me.

Again, the great number of cultivated men keep each other up to a high standard. The habit of meeting well-read and knowing men teaches the art of omission and selection.

Fashion which affects to be honor, is often, in all men's experience, only a ballroom-code.

A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful, and, however he may serve as a pin or rivet in the social machine, cannot be saidto have arrived at self-possession.

When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen.

Is not, indeed, every man a student, and do not all things exist for the student's behoof?

All forms of government symbolize an immortal government, common to all dynasties and independent of numbers, perfect where two men exist, perfect where there is only one man.

A man in a cave or in a camp, a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves.

A true man belongs to no other time or place, but is the center of things.

Every man is the inlet and may become the outlet of all there is in God.

All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.

There are men who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race.

What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects.

There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.

If I see one dilemma with Western man, it's that he can't accept how beautiful he is. He can't accept that he is pure light, that he's pure love, that he's pure consciousness, that he's divine.

A man said to me, "You talk to your dead guru?" And I said, "Yeah." He said, "That's in your imagination." And I said, "Yeah!" Because my guru is in my imagination anywhere. Anywhere.

Yes, Simone, he is mentally unstable for being attracted to you. call the men in white suits.

Is an institution always a man's shadow shortened in the sun, the lowest common denominator of everybody in it?

Carl Becker has defined a professor as a man who thinks otherwise; a scholar is a man who otherwise thinks.

The usual criticism of a novel about an artist is that, no matter how real he is as a man, he is not real to us as an artist, since we have to take on trust the works of art he produces.

I would like to say that I helped out our men in uniform, but the truth is I probably just grumbled at the noise.

The repentant man rightfully loses trust in himself. He recognizes his self-dependence as the source of his problems, not the solution.

My other Main Man is Muhamed Ali, for the obvious reasons.

I always wanted to be a leading man!

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the definition of a marriage as between one man and one woman.

There's a million white people better qualified than a black man to be president of America.

I am half a man, holy Jesus, what a drag.

I'd like to explain why you fine young men had to be blown apart to defend this mud hole.