Men Quotes

Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear!

It is not for man to follow the trail of truth too far, since by so doing he entirely loses the directing compass of his mind.

Let us be Christians toward our fellow-whites, as well as philanthropists toward the blacks our fellow-men. In all things, and toward all, we are enjoined to do as we would be done by.

Men there are, who having quite done with the world, all its merely worldly contents are become so far indifferent, that they carelittle of what mere worldly imprudence they may be guilty.

God is liberal of color; so should man be.

The idea of Jehovah was born here... Out of the rude elements of the insignificant thoughts thoughts that are in all men, they reared the transcendent conception of a God.

Much of a man's character will be found betokened in his backbone. I would rather feel your spine than your skull, whoever you are. A thin joist of a spine never yet upheld a full and noble soul.

...in certain moods, no man can weigh this world without throwing in something, somehow like Original Sin, to strike the uneven balance.

The man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for.

The American, who up to the present day, has evinced, in Literature, the largest brain with the largest heart, that man is Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Appalling is the soul of a man! Better might one be pushed off into the material spaces beyond the uttermost orbit of our sun, than once feel himself fairly afloat in himself.

For God's sake, be economical with your lamps and candles! not a gallon you burn, but at least one drop of man's blood was spilled for it.

Because no man can ever feel his own identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if darkness were indeed the proper element of our essences, though light be more congenial to our clayey part.

Soldier or sailor, the fighting man is but a fiend; and the staff and body-guard of the Devil musters many a baton.

So long as a man-of-war exists, it must ever remain a picture of much that is tyrannical and repelling in human nature.

O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies; not the smallest atom stirs or lives on matter, but has its cunning duplicate in mind.

Man screams from the depths of his soul; the whole era becomes a single, piercing shriek. Art also screams, into the deep darkness, screams for help, screams for the spirit. This is Expressionism.

I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all outstanding men.

It was lovely, and tempting, to exert power over men and to shine before others, but power also had its perditions and perils.

I had grown a thin mustache, I was a full-grown man, and yet I was completely helpless and without a goal in life.

My men have become women, but the women men.

Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.

Soft men tend to be born from soft countries.

I've always been a proud man.

The dawn speeds a man on his journey, and speeds him too in his work.

Inhibition is no good provider for a needy man, Inhibition, which does men great harm and great good. Inhibition attaches to poverty, boldness to wealth.

Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.

A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it

Of themselves diseases come upon men continually by day and by night, bringing mischief to mortals silently; for wise Zeus took away speech from them. So is there no way to escape the will of Zeus

There was not after all a single kind of strife, but on earth there are two kinds: one of them a man might praise when he recognized her, but the other is blameworthy.

The gods being always close to men perceive those who afflict others with unjust devices and do not fear the wrath of heaven.

And Zeus will destroy this race of mortal men too, when they, at their birth, have grey hair on their temples.

Of old when folk lay sick and sorely tried The doctors gave them physic, and they died. But here's a happier age: for now we know Both how to make men sick and keep them so.

The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.

Man must look after man sicne no god watches out for us.

I love men who have a lot going on in their lives, like I do.

In order to successfully impersonate men, the woman [Margaret Thatcher] launched a war.

I fear no man, no woman; flower does not fear bird, insect nor adder.

There is no man can take, there is no pool can slake, ultimately I am alone; ultimately I am done.

No man will be present in those mysteries, yet all men will kneel, no man will be potent, important, yet all men will feel what it is to be a woman.

In the fight for women's rights, the support of men remains crucial.

If men like [Ken] Starr and his allies could ignore the Constitution and abuse power for ideological and malicious ends to topple a President, I feared for my country.

I have a history with charismatic, attractive men who just wear me out.

Let's be honest: For a lot of well-meaning, open-minded white people, the sight of a young, black man in a hoodie still evokes a twinge of fear.

Let's also add, no one should disagree about respecting the rights of young men who live in those neighborhoods.

Barack Obama is a man of great dignity.

You don't have to be perfect. Most men never think like that.

A democracy depends on the full integration of women into society, especially on seeing to it that they have equal access to the same tools of opportunity as men.

I rarely meet a young man who doesn't already think he is.

I think a marriage is as a marriage has always been, between a man and a woman.