Men Quotes
The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
Some folks think that Christianity means a kind of insurance policy, and that it has little to do with this life, but that it is a very good thing when a man dies.
Every man is full of music; but it is not every man that knows how to bring it out.
Unfruitful emotion is to be suspected. Feeling acts as an impulse, as a spur, as a spring, and when feelings are excited, and they put nothing forward, they are sometimes even dangerous to a man.
No man ever learned to love God with all his heart, and his neighbour as himself, in a day.
They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence.
If there's a job to be done, I always ask the busiest man in my parish to take it on and it gets done.
Men of dissolute lives have little incentive to look forward to the hopes and glories of immortality. A due conception of these would be incompatible with such a life.
Men who neglect Christ, and try to win heaven through moralities, are like sailors at sea in a storm, who pull, some at the bowsprit and some at the mainmast, but never touch the helm.
Nothing is orderly till man takes hold of it. Everything in creation lies around loose.
His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him, though it has wearied man.
Perverted pride is a great misfortune in men; but pride in its original function, for which God created it, is indispensable to a proper manhood.
A practical, matter-of-fact man is like a wagon without springs: every single pebble on the road jolts him; but a man with imagination has springs that break the jar and jolt.
God made every man to have power to be mightier than the events round about him; to hold by his firm will the reigns by which all things are guided.
No one can deal with the hearts of men unless he has the sympathy which is given by love.
Men judge of Christians by taking as fair samples those that lie rotten on the ground.
Evil men of every degree will use you, flatter you, lead you on until you are useless; then, if the virtuous do not pity you, or God compassionate, you are without a friend in the universe.
Not that which men do worthily, but that which they do successfully, is what history makes haste to record.
The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age.
There's not much practical Christianity in the man who lives on better terms with angels and seraphs than with his children, servants and neighbours.
If a man has come to that point where he is no content that he says; I do not want to know any more, or do any more or be any more, he is in a state in which he ought to be changed into a mummy.
There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure; but everybody in the neighborhood has to know about them.
Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?
There is not on earth so base a knave as the man who wins the love of a woman when he knows that he cannot or ought not to requite it.
The prouder a man is, the more he thinks he deserves, and the more he thinks he deserves, the less he really does deserve.
There is an equator that runs just under the nose: all that live below the equator are animals; all that live above it are men.
What is the disposition which makes men rejoice in good bargains? There are few people who will not be benefited by pondering over the morals of shopping.
A republican government in a hundred points is weaker than an autocratic government; but in this one point it is the strongest that ever existed — it has educated a race of men that are men.
Sometimes fear is wholesome and rational; it is well to swing fear as a mighty battle-axe over men's heads when no other motive will move them.
Religion is only another word for the right use of a man's whole self, instead of a wrong use of himself.
Money in the hands of one or two men is like a dungheap in a barnyard. So long as it lies in a mass, it does no good; but, if it is only spread out evenly on the land, everything will grow.
He who only does not appreciate floral beauty is to be pitied like any other man who is born imperfect. It is a misfortune not unlike blindness.
Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.
Every man carries a menagerie in himself; and, by stirring him up all around, you will find every sort of animal represented there.
Books are the true metempsychosis,--they are the symbol and presage of immortality. The dead men are scattered, and none shall find them. Behold they are here! they do but sleep.