Men Quotes

It is a man dying with his harness on that angels love to escort upward.

God never made anything else so beautiful as man.

God's men are better than the devil's men, and they ought to act as though they thought they were.

Man is that name of power which rises above them all, and gives to every one the right to be that which God meant he should be.

There is no right more universal and more sacred, because lying so near the root of existence, than the right of men to their own labor.

Men have a thousand desires to a bushel of choices.

Men can make an idol of the Bible.

That which distinguishes man from the brute is his power, in dealing with Nature, to milk her laws, and make them give forth their bounty.

A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of men.

It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made.

Nature holds an immense uncollected debt over every man's head.

Morality is character and conduct such as is required by the circle or community in which the man's life happens to be placed. It shows how much good men require of us.

It takes a man to make a devil; and the fittest man for such a purpose is a snarling, waspish, red-hot, fiery creditor.

Education will not come of itself; it will never come unless you seek it; it will not come unless you take the first steps which lead to it; but, taking these steps, every man can acquire it.

It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.

And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.

Coach Lombardi had the nerve to draft me number oneAnd I said I have to repay this man for having the nerve to draft me number one.

Man's conditioning has been so powerful that It has all but distroyed his ability to be self aware.

Pigs are very intelligent. They're very misunderstood. Yet they're sort of man's unofficial best friend.

If it be true that democracy is based upon the assumption that every man shall serve his fellow man, the organization of democracy should be gradually adapted to that assumption.

Of the whole sum of human life no small part is that which consists of a man's relations to his country, and his feelings concerning it.

Isolation from power makes men look for a mob in which they can be strong.

It is obvious that while science is struggling to bring Heaven to earth some men are using its materials in the construction of Hell.

It is those moral and spiritual qualities which rise alone in free men, which will fulfill the meaning of the word American. And with them will come centuries of further greatness to our country.

The spark of liberty in the mind and spirit of man cannot be long extinguished; it will break into flames that will destroy every coercion which seems to limit it.

The imperative need of this nation at all times is the leadership of Uncommon Men or Women.

No great question will ever be settled in dollars and cents. Great questions must be settled on moral grounds and the tests of what makes free men.

The ancient bitter opposition to improved methods [of production] on the ancient theory that it more than temporarily deprives men of employment... has no place in the gospel of American progress.

The present stage redefines the possibilities of man and nature in accordance with the new means available for their realization.

The liberating force of technology the instrumentalization of things turns into ... the instrumentalization of man.

The avant-garde and the beatniks share in the function of entertaining without endangering the good conscience of the men of good will.

Education has for its object to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious nature-this is alike the aim of parent and teacher.

Lusts are like agues; the fit is not always on, and yet the man is not rid of his disease; and some men's lusts, like some agues, have not such quick returns as others.

What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.

There's magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.

There are doubts, sir, which, if man have them, it is not man that can solve them.

The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.

There is nothing namable but that some men will, or undertake to, do it for pay.

In truth, a mature man who uses hair oil, unless medicinally, that man has probably got a quoggy spot in him somewhere.

Students of history are horror-struck at the massacres of old; but in the shambles, men are being murdered to-day.

In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an old man, it boldly leads the way, and ushers me on.

I will live and die by this testimony: that I loved a good conscience; that I never invaded another man's liberty; and that I preserved my own.

The entire merit of a man can never be made known; nor the sum of his demerits, if he have them. We are only known by our names; as letters sealed up, we but read each other's superscriptions.

Think of it. To go down to posterity as a 'man who lived among the cannibals.'

A man can be honest in any sort of skin.

Not one man in five cycles, who is wise, will expect appreciative recognition from his fellows, or any one of them.

If there be any thing a man might well pray against, that thing is the responsive gratification of some of the devoutest prayers of his youth.

Nothing can lift the heart of man like manhood in a fellow man.

It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him.

As with ships, so with men; he who turns his back to his foe gives him an advantage.