Men Quotes

In merest prudence men should teach . . . That science ranks as monstrous things Two pairs of upper limbs; so wings-- E'en Angel's wings!--are fictions.

Nature is a part of our humanity, and without some awareness and experience of that divine mystery man ceases to be man.

When I first met my girlfriend, I was super intimidated. I wanted to impress her. I was thinking, Don't mess this up, man. You've gotta play your cards exactly right.

To enable men to exercise that power is the object of protection.

It is my experience that the short path to the simple and precise English needed by a man of science lies thorough the tongues of Homer and Vergil.

If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show him . . he will be surrounded by grandeur.

The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies.

Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.

The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.

The artist and his work are not to be separated. The most willfully foolish man cannot stand aloof from his folly, but the deed and the doer together make ever one sober fact.

It makes no odds where a man goes or stays, if he is only about his business.

As a man thinks of himself, so he is.

The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.

Truly the stars were given for a consolation to man.

That man is richest who's pleasure are cheapest.

The virtues of a superior man are like the wind; the virtues of a common man are like the grass; the grass, when the wind passes over it, bends.

Nature has left nothing to the mercy of man.

One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one.

A man can suffocate on courtesy.

Let a slight snow come and cover the earth, and the tracks of men will show how little the woods and fields are frequented.

How sweet it would be to treat men and things, for an hour, for just what they are!

The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies.

But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little have been tried.

The mason asks but a narrow shelf to spring his brick from; man requires only an infinitely narrower one to spring his arch of faith from.

It is the man determines what is said, not the words.

Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.

Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage.

All that man has to say or do that can possibly concern mankind is in some shape or other to tell the story of his love-to sing, and, if he is fortunate and keeps alive, he will be forever in love.

The foul slime stands for the sloth and vice of man, the decay of humanity; the fragrant flower that springs from it, for the purity and courage which are immortal.

I fear that he who walks over these fields a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples. Ah, poor man, there are many pleasures which he will not know!

Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man.

With a little more deliberation in the choice of their pursuits, all men would perhaps become essentially students and observers, for certainly their nature and destiny are interesting to all alike.

Since all things are good, men fail at last to distinguish which is the bane and which the antidote.

Every man has to learn the points of the compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction.

When a man dies he kicks the dust.

Cold and hunger seem more friendly to my nature than those methods which men have adopted and advise to ward them off.

A man had better starve at once than lose his innocence in the process of getting his bread.

It is remarkable that there are few men so well employed, so much to their minds, but that a little money or fame would commonly buy them off from their present pursuit.

There are some things which a man never speaks of, which are much finer kept silent about. To the highest communications we only lend a silent ear.

Nothing can shock a brave man but dullness.

In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.

Tough times don't last but tough people do. No matter how slow you go, you are still lapping everybody on the couch. Men are born to succeed, not fail.

You can hardly convince a man of an error in a lifetime, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of science is slow. If he is not convinced, his grandchildren may be.

Men are as innocent as the morning to the unsuspicious.

Is it not possible that an individual may be right and a government wrong? Are laws to be enforced simply because they were made? Or declared by any number of men to be good, if they are NOT good?

It is very rare that you meet with obstacles in this world, which the humblest man has not faculties to surmount.

The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as a cat does a mouse.

Men talk of freedom! How many are free to think? Free from fear, from perturbation, from prejudice? Nine hundred and ninety-nine in a thousand are perfect slaves.

The mass of men are very easily imposed on. They have their runways in which they always travel, and are sure to fall into any pit or box-trap set therein.

The question is whether you can bear freedom. At present the vast majority of men, whether white or black, require the discipline of labor which enslaves them for their own good.