Men Quotes

Many men walk by day; few walk by night. It is a different season.

I want the flower and fruit of a man; that some fragrance be wafted over from him to me, and some ripeness flavor our intercourse.

What is man but a mass of thawing clay?

I will not allow mere names to make distinctions for me, but still see men in herds for all them.

In civilization, as in a southern latitude, man degenerates at length, and yields to the incursion of more northern tribes.

The man who thrusts his manners upon me does as if he were to insist on introducing me to his cabinet of curiosities, when I wished to see himself.

Every man is entitled to come to Cattle-Show, even a transcendentalist; and for my part I am more interested in the men than in the cattle.

A man has not seen a thing who has not felt it.

Still we live meanly like ants, though the fable tells us we were long ago changed into men.

Color, which is the poet's wealth, is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science.

He is the rich man, and enjoys the fruit of his riches, who summer and winter forever can find delight in his own thoughts.

He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behaviour as well as application.

The mission of men there seems to be, like so many busy demons, to drive the forest all out of the country, from every solitary beaver swamp and mountain-side, as soon as possible.

If all were as it seems, and men made the elements their servants for noble ends!

If you are a seer, whenever you meet a man you will see all that he owns, ay, and much that he pretends to disown, behind him.

It is a ridiculous demand which England and America make, that you shall speak so that they can understand you. Neither men nor toadstools grow so.

When one man has reduced a fact of the imagination to be a fact to his understanding, I foresee that all men will at length establish their lives on that basis.

So soon did we, wayfarers, begin to learn that man's life is rounded with the same few facts, the same simple relations everywhere, and it is vain to travel to find it new.

The necessity of labor and conversation with many men and things to the scholar is rarely well remembered.

A man may travel fast enough and earn his living on the road.

Morning work! By the blushes of Aurora and the music of Memnon, what should be man's morning work in this world?

I hardly know an intellectual man, even, who is so broad and truly liberal that you can think aloud in his society.

A man's wealth is measured by what he doesn't need.

When a man's conscience and the laws clash, it is his conscience that he must follow.

Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmie that he can? Let everyone mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made

We saw men haying far off in the meadow, their heads waving like the grass which they cut. In the distance the wind seemed to bend all alike.

Inexpressibly beautiful appears the recognition by man of the least natural fact, and the allying his life to it.

A man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it.

For the most part, the best man's spirit makes a fearful sprite to haunt his grave.

Good religious men, with the love of men in their hearts, and the means to pay their toll in their pockets.

And pray what more can a reasonable man desire, in peaceful times, in ordinary noons, than a sufficient number of ears of green sweet corn boiled, with the addition of salt?

But perhaps a man is not required to bury himself.

The merely political aspect of the land is never very cheering; men are degraded when considered as the members of a political organization.

The man who takes the liberty to live is superior to all the laws, by virtue of his relation to the lawmaker.

I am a good horse to travel, but not from choice a roadster. The landscape-painter uses the figures of men to mark a road. He would not make that use of my figure.

Roads are made for horses and men of business. I do not travel in them much.

How many fine thoughts has every man had! How few fine thoughts are expressed!

To the virtuous man, the universe is the only sanctum sanctorum, and the penetralia of the temple are the broad noon of his existence.

Men have a singular desire to be good without being good for anything, because, perchance, they think vaguely that so it will be good for them in the end.

I never dreamed of any enormity greater than I have committed. I never knew, and never shall know, a worse man than myself.

I learned to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of nature, rather than a member of society.

No man is fit to be a Senator...unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle.

Men who pay for what they eat will insist on gratifying their palates

Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?

To the generality of men you cannot give a stronger hint for them to impose upon you than by imposing upon yourself.

A man given to pride is usually proud of the wrong thing.

Every business is a monarchy with, not a man, but an idea as king.

For most purposes, a man with a machine is better than a man without a machine.

No two men are just alike. Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there has never been anything like it before, and never will be again.

It is a striving to attain the best. To throttle it would mean to stop all progress. Certain men do not need to compete. They are pioneers.