Men Quotes

Labor unions are the worst thing that ever struck the earth because they take away a man's independence.

A business which exists to make one man or one family rich, and whose existence is of no moment when this is achieved, is not solidly founded.

Every man starts with all there is. Everything is here-the essence and substance of all there is.

These men of many nations must be taught American ways, the English language, and the right way to live.

Property in land is as indefensible as property in man.

Man must be doing something, or fancy that he is doing something, for in him throbs the creative impulse; the mere basker in the sunshine is not a natural, but an abnormal man.

Let no man imagine that he has no influence.

In some cities such as Washington, DC, that 75 percent of young black men can expect to serve time in prison.

Young black men in America have an identity ascribed to them that is a direct legacy of slavery.

Young black men are considered dangerous, expendable, threatening and part of a culture of criminality.

Nothing so uncertain as general reputation. A man injures me from humor, passion, or interest; hates me because he has injured me; and speaks ill of me because he hates me.

Even dress is apt to inflame a man's opinion of himself.

Every man, however little, makes a figure in his own eyes.

A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty.

God's creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.

A great man is one who can have power and not abuse it.

The man who will neither play nor do business unless everything is just to his liking and notions, retards rather than contributes to progress.

The Frenchman is first and foremost a man. He is likeable often just because of his weaknesses, which are always thoroughly human, even if despicable.

Each man has his own way of being himself and of saying it so ultimately that he can't be denied.

France may one day exist no more, but the Dordogne will live on just as dreams live on and nourish the souls of men.

Do not be duped by little duties. Do not be a chore man all your days.

Flowers knew how to preach divinity before men knew how to dissect and botanize them.

Again and again the Church of Christ has been all but engulfed, as men might have deemed, in the billows; again and again the storm has been calmed by the Master, Who had seemed for awhile to sleep.

If man looks within himself he must perceive two things: a law of right, and that which it condemns.

Look to the end; and resolve to make the service of Christ the first object in what remains of life, without indifference to the opinion of your fellow men, but also without fear of it.

Nelson Mandela will always be the face of South Africa. The traveler passing through the country will see Mandela's face almost everywhere he looks. Truly, the man is omnipresent.

I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore... like, none.

If it's a man's world, as they say, then men, your world is a poorly run carnage fest.

My father did not rock. He just earned and hated. Don't end up like this man.

The kid who throws his spaghetti from the high chair onto his father's face, he's pushing back. He's sticking it to the man as he sees it. I like that. So that is punk.

Castle Face Records, run by The Oh Sees main man, Johnny Dwyer is always worth checking in with.

Basically, men are afraid of women and can’t handle the fact that they came out of the same thing they spend the rest of their lives trying to get back into.

Somewhere, someone isn’t impressed by your looks. Not all men jump through the hoops of your fire. You’re unbelievably boring to more people than you’ll ever know.

A man came up to me the other day and said he hadn't had a bite in weeks. So you know what I did? I walked by him like he didn't even exist.

A man who thinks too much about his ancestors is like a potato-the best part of him is underground.

I think it indisputable that the distance between the intellectual faculties of different men is greater than that between the same faculties in some men and some other animals.

Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets, for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.

Whenever a man boasts much about [his common sense], you may be pretty sure that he has very little sense, either common or uncommon.

The Bible does not profess to make men omniscient, but simply to tell them enough to make them happy and good, if they will believe it and live up to it.

Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move, And when this dust falls to the urn In that state I came, return.

Poverty is such a relative thing; but no man is really poor till life becomes a desert island that gives him neither food nor shelter nor hope.

Think not because no man sees, such things will remain unseen.

Often times we call a man [or woman] cold when he [or she] is only sad.

Make not thyself the judge of any man.

A man must be of a very quiet and happy nature, who can long endure the country; and, moreover, very well contented with his own insignificant person.

Perhaps the greatest lesson which the lives of literary men teach us is told in a single word* Wait!

The men that women marry, And why they marry them, will always be A marvel and a mystery to the world.

Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.

There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.

A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation's young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.