Men Quotes
Insane!... Ask the tyrant who is his most dangerous foe, the sane man or the insane?
We have reason to be grateful for celestial phenomena, for they chiefly answer to the ideal in man.
We are accustomed to say, that the mass of men are unprepared; but improvement is slow, because the few are not materially wiser or better than the many.
Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towardsrecognizing and organizing the rights of man?
The improvements of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of man's existence: as our skeletons, probably, are not to be distinguished from those of our ancestors.
I think the fall from the farmer to the operative as great and memorable as that from the man to the farmer.
There is considerable danger that a man will be crazy between dinner and supper; but it will not directly answer any good purposethat I know of, and it is just as easy to be sane.
If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.
It behooves every man to see that his influence is on the side of justice, and let the courts make their own characters.
I have seen more men than usual, lately; and, well as I was acquainted with one, I am surprised to find what vulgar fellows they are.
We seem to think that the earth must go through the ordeal of sheep-pasturage before it is habitable by man.
A fortified town is like a man cased in the heavy armor of antiquity, with a horse-load of broadswords and small arms slung to him, endeavoring to go about his business.
It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men.
The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact.
The prosaic man sees things badly, or with the bodily sense; but the poet sees them clad in beauty, with the spiritual sense.
There are continents and seas in the moral world, to which every man is an isthmus or inlet, yet unexplored by him.
A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.
I am amused to see from my window here how busily a man has divided and staked off his domain. God must smile at his puny fences running hither and thither everywhere over the land.
Wherever you may seek solitude, men will ferret you out and compel you to belong to their desperate company of oddfellows.
Men spend the best parts of their lives earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it.
A man's whole life is taxed for the least thing well done. It is its net result.
When I would go a-visiting, I find that I go off the fashionable street,--not being inclined to change my dress,--to where man meets man, and not polished shoe meets shoe.
What is chastity? How shall a man know if he is chaste? He shall not know it. We have heard of this virtue, but we know not what it is.
A man cannot wheedle nor overawe his Genius. It requires to be conciliated by nobler conduct than the world demands or can appreciate.
Some, it seems to me, elect their rulers for their crookedness. But I think that a straight stick makes the best cane, and an upright man the best ruler.
What are men celebrating? They are all on a committee of arrangements, and hourly expect a speech from somebody. God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator.
We go on dating from Cold Fridays and Great Snows; but a little colder Friday, or greater snow would put a period to man's existence on the globe.
One who knew how to appropriate the true value of this world would be the poorest man in it. The poor rich man! all he has is whathe has bought.
It would surpass the powers of a well man nowadays to take up his bed and walk, and I should certainly advise a sick one to lay down his bed and run.
We could not help contrasting the equanimity of Nature with the bustle and impatience of man. His words and actions presume alwaysa crisis near at hand, but she is forever silent and unpretending.
To say that God has given a man many and great talents frequently means that he has brought his heavens down within reach of his hands.
Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. He'll be as dumb as if his lips were stone.
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am constantly doing by being what I am.
If labor mainly, or to any considerable degree, serves the purpose of a police, to keep men out of mischief, it indicates a rottenness at the foundation of our community.
A man may grow rich in Turkey even, if he will be in all respects a good subject of the Turkish government.
To speak impartially, the best men that I know are not serene, a world in themselves. For the most part, they dwell in forms, andflatter and study effect only more finely than the rest.
A man who has to go to the village to get the news hasn't heard from himself in a long time.
The man whose horse trots a mile in a minute does not carry the most important messages.