Men Quotes

Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome than a man or a woman ever could become?

The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.

The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.

In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.

Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease.

There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this alone can man find thorough satisfaction.

Whether one show one's self a man of genius in science or compose a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, the deed, is living and can live on.

Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down

As a man is, so is his God; therefore God was so often an object of mockery. [Ger., Wie einer ist, so ist sein Gott, Darum ward Gott so oft zu Spott.]

Beloved brother, let us not forget that man can never get away from himself. [Ger., Lass uns, geliebter Bruder, nicht vergessen, Dass von sich selbst der Mensch nicht scheiden kann.]

For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl. [Ger., Denn ein wackerer Mann verdient ein begutertes Madchen.]

What man does not know, Or has not thought of, Wanders in the night Through the labyrinth of the mind.

Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.

A state of true and universal tolerance is best ensured by leaving alone the peculiarities of men and peoples.

The important thing is not to know more than all men, but to know more at each moment than any particular man.

The soul of man is like to water; from Heaven it cometh, to Heaven it riseth And then returning to earth, forever alternating.

Man cannot persist long in a conscious state, he must throw himself back into the unconscious, for his root lives there.

Reasonable men are the best dictionaries of conversation.

The history of a man is in his character.

Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets him apart From every other creature On earth.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

If there is confusion in your head and in your heart, what more do you want! A man who no longer loves and no longer errs should have himself buried straight away.

Most man only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.

When Nature begins to reveal her open secret to a man, he feels an irresistible longing for her worthiest interpreter, Art.

If a man sets out to study all the laws, he will have no time left to transgress them.

A man must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible; otherwise he would not try to fathom it.

The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognizing a truth which has already been recognized by others.

A man avails himself of the truth so long as it is serviceable; but he seizes on what is false with a passionate eloquence as soon as he can make a momentary use of it.

A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth.

Wind is the loving Wooer of waters; Wind blends together Billows all-foaming. Spirit of man, Thou art like unto water! Fortune of man, Thou art like unto wind!

Man must do his part and detach himself from created things.

I never mingled with men, but I came home less of a man than I went out.

Where annual elections end, there slavery begins ... Humility, patience, and moderation, without which every man in power becomes a ravenous beast of prey.

Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute.

Public business must always be done by somebody. It will be done by somebody or other. If wise man decline, others will not; if honest man refuse it, others will not.

No good government but what is republican... the very definition of a republic is 'an empire of laws, and not of men.'

This oration will be read five hundred years hence with as much rapture as it was heard. It ought to be read at the end of every century, and indeed at the end of every year, forever and ever.

It already appears, that there must be in every society of men superiors and inferiors, because God has laid in the constitution and course of nature the foundations of the distinction.

[I] never understood [what a republican government was and] I believe no other man ever did or ever will.

If there is a form of government, then, whose principle and foundation is virtue, will not every sober man acknowledge it better calculated to promote the general happiness than any other form?

The only way to form an army to be confided in, was a systematic discipline, by which means all men may be made heroes.

Who wants to shake the hand of the first man to put it to America's sweetheart.

When each man sets his own house in order, the whole world will be in order.

Let every man sing his own song in life.

Once a happy old man One can never change the core of things, and light burns you the harder for it.

A man's enemies have no power to harm him, if he is true to himself and loyal to God.

So time doesn't count, and place does?' I said this to tease her. When I was a man, I liked teasing her and she went along with it, consenting, for it reminded us both of a sadness that had passed.

Old men who never cheated, never doubted, Communicated monthly, sit and stare At the new suburb stretched beyond the run-way Where a young man lands hatless from the air.

My opinion is borne out of my childhood, my faith, my beliefs. That marriage is between one man and one woman.

Chance and change are busy ever;Man decays, and ages move;But His mercy waneth never;God is wisdom, God is love.