Men Quotes

A dowried wife, friends, beauty, birth, fair fame, These are the gifts of money, heavenly dame: Be but a moneyed man, persuasion tips Your tongue, and Venus settles on your lips.

What odds does it make to the man who lives within Nature's bounds, whether he ploughs a hundred acres or a thousand?

The man who thinks with Horace thinks divine.

An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.

A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools.

The changing year's successive plan Proclaims mortality to man.

Even virtue followed beyond reason's rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool.

When a man is pleased with the lot of others, he is dissatisfied with his own, as a matter of course.

What prevents a man's speaking good sense with a smile on his face?

Even-handed fate Hath but one law for small and great: That ample urn holds all men's names.

To the inexperienced it is a pleasant thing to court the favour of the great; an experienced man fears it.

Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)

Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces.

That man lives happy and in command of himself, who from day to day can say I have lived. Whether clouds obscure, or the sun illumines the following day, that which is past is beyond recall.

Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even of beauty.

He who preserves a man's life against his will does the same thing as if he slew him.

Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale.

A man polished to the nail. [Lat., Ad unguem factus home.]

The man is either crazy or he is a poet.

Decus et pretium recte petit experiens vir. The man who makes the attempt justly aims at honour and reward.

Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even a sparing hand.

No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid.

A true Christian man is distinguished from other men, not so much by his beneficent works, as by his patience.

Christ wants to lead men by their love, their personal love to Him, and the confidence of His personal love to them.

It is the grand endeavor of the gospel to communicate God to men.

But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.

There is not a good work which the hand of man has ever undertaken, which his heart has ever conceived, which does not require a good education for its helper.

Man is improvable. Some people think he is only a machine, and that the only difference between a man and a mill is, that one is carried by blood and the other by water.

I have known men of valor cowards to their wives.

The contempt of money is no more a virtue than to wash one's hand is one; but one does not willingly shake hands with a man that never washes his.

That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect.

You can't make Howard Dean a straw man. He is what he appears to be. And that's the beauty of Howard Dean.

I guess I'll have to change my plan I should have realized there'd be another man Why did I buy those blue pyjamas Before the big affair began? I guess I'll have to change my plan.

An I must drink sour ale, I must, but never have I yielded me to man before, and that without wound or mark upon my body. Nor, when I bethink me, will I yield now.

Men are always trying to make the world better or worse while most women are content just to live in it.

Anything is possible in the life of a man if he lives long enough. Even maturity.

Nothing but religious faith has been able to save men from despair.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

When there’s only God to blame, we forgive him. When it’s our fellow man, we destroy him.

Evan Price is not a man to be questioned. He is a man who will question you.

That's the problem with the truth," Darcy said. "Liars and honest men both claim to have it.

He thought of men like Hitler, Stalin, and Napoleon. All it took was a lot of seemingly decent people to put the wrong person in power and then fall under their spell.

I'm quite an independent person, and I had to be. As a boy and growing into a young man I had to look out for myself. And now I'm very family-oriented. It's a big priority in my life.

There was a whole display set up of all the X-Men paraphernalia. My wife couldn't resist telling this 5-year-old boy that I was Wolverine. The little kid looked up at me and he was staring at me.

If a man's religion does not affect his use of money, that man's religion is vain.

Man's dominion is a call to service, not a license to to exterminate.

Man may doubt here and there, but mankind does not doubt.

No hell will frighten men away from sin; no dread of prospective misery; only goodness can cast hell out of any man, and set up the kingdom of heaven within.

Morality will be very difficult for the man who does not pray.

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform.