Men Quotes

Someday a computer will give a wrong answer to spare someone's feelings, and man will have invented artificial intelligence.

Beauty is the highest of all these occult influences, the quality of appearances that thru' the sense wakeneth spiritual emotion in the mind of man.

I hold that a man should strive to the uttermost for his life's set prize.

In this world, who can do a thing, will not; And who would do it, cannot, I perceive: Yet the will's somewhat — somewhat, too, the power — And thus we half-men struggle.

Men are not angels, neither are they brutes.

Mothers, wives and maids, These be the tools with which priests manage men.

Man seeks his own good at the whole world's cost.

The only fault's with time; All men become good creatures: but so slow!

What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets: May learn a thousand things, not twice the same.

One wise man's verdict outweighs all the fools'.

A man in armour is his armour's slave.

A man in armor is his armor's slave.

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so; life's business being just the terrible choice.

I, painting from myself and to myself, Know what I do, am unmoved by men's blame Or their praise either.

Stand still, true poet that you are! I know you; let me try and draw you. Some night you'll fail us: when afar You rise, remember one man saw you, Knew you, and named a star!

Women hate a debt as men a gift.

Tis Man's to explore up and down, inch by inch, with the taper his reason.

When a man's busy, why leisure Strikes him as wonderful pleasure: 'Faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy.

Now a' is done that men can do, And a' is done in vain.

There's no drug that'll make a stupid man smart.

Some pious men may find this truth unorthodox and bitter: But Nature, Chance, and Time ensure survival of the fitter!

John Scalzi is a fresh and appealing new voice, and Old Man's War is classic SF seen from a modern perspective—a fast-paced tour of a daunting, hostile universe.

The eternal Son of God became the sinless son of Man that the sinful sons of men might become the beloved sons of God.

Oh well, I will say here, knowing each man, let you find a good wife too, and love her as hard as you can.

Are there times in our lives when we think we have been forsaken by God, or by our fellow men, or by our families? Those are moments when we have to turn to Christ and endure.

[Emerson] was interested not in the bookworm, not even in the thinker, only in Man Thinking.

I'm a man without a corporation.

Sometimes directors will hire you and say, 'Oh, we love your work.' And then they start to tell you how to do it. I say, 'Hey, man, back off. You hired me to do it. Let me do it.'

Men are but men, and the greatest men are they who soonest learn the simpler things.

The sea-road is good for wanderers and landless men. There is quenching of thirst on the grey paths of the winds, and the flying clouds to still the sting of lost dreams.

What shall a man say when a friend has vanished behind the doors of Death? A mere tangle of barren words, only words.

No man can be convinced when he will not.

It is an ill thing to meet a man you thought dead in the woodland at dusk.

Perhaps you see, therefore, why I think taste must come before nutrition? Our infatuation for the quasi-scientific has left us easy marks for con men and tin fiddle manufacturers.

Man was made to lead with his chin; he is worth knowing only with his guard down, his head up and his heart rampant on his sleeve.

More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.

Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.

Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.

Men work together, whether they work together or apart.

Not to sink under being man and wife, But get some color and music out of life?

A man has got to keep his extrication. The important thing is not to get bogged down In what he has to do to earn a living.

I am assured at any rate Man's practically inexterminate. Someday I must go into that. There's always been an Ararat Where someone someone else begat To start the world all over at.

Kaisers and Czars will strut the stage Once more with pomp and greed and rage; Courtly ministers will stop At home and fight to the last drop; By the million men will die In some new horrible agony.

Every sect is a certificate that God has not plainly revealed his will to man. To each reader the Bible conveys a different meaning.

If we should put god in the Constitution there would be no room left for man.

If there be gods we cannot help them, but we can assist our fellow men. We cannot love the inconceivable, but we can love wife and child and friend.

At thirty most men have prejudices rather than opinions-that is to say, rather than judgments-and few men have lived to be sixty without materially modifying the opinions they held at thirty.

Nothing is greater than to break the chains from the bodies of men, nothing nobler than to destroy the phantom of the soul.

The greatest superstition now entertained by public men is that hypocrisy is the royal road to success.

We must remember that we have to make judges out of men, and that by being made judges their prejudices are not diminished and their intelligence is not increased.