Men Quotes
Time broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men.
I have no personal system of philosophy. I never attempt to do that. I am merely a man of letters.
On the floor, and hanging on to the bar, squatted an old man, immobile as an object. His years had reduced and polished him as water does a stone or the generations of men do a sentence.
The steps a man takes from the day of his birth until that of his death trace in time an inconcievable figure. The Divine Mind intuitively grasps that form immediately, as men do a triangle.
The man who spends all his time looking up to heaven is not always the best; in fact, he is usually the worst.
Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned.
The quality of a man's mind can generally be judged by the size of his wastepaper basket.
Men are products, expressions, reflections; they live to the extent that they coincide with their epoch, or to the extent that they differ markedly from it.
The way I use to develop an aerobic condition is three against three, man to man, in a square 20 metres by 20.
To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man.
Man must not only make himself: the weightiest thing he has to do is to determine what he is going to be. He is causa sui to the second power.
If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man's inner destiny sets it.
In general, fakirs, like scribes and potters, are sitting down, when he's standing up, a fakir is just like an other man, and sitting down, he'll be smaller than the others.
Justice is a habit (habitus), whereby a man renders to each one his due with constant and perpetual will.
The brave man uses wrath for his own act, above all in attack, 'for it is peculiar to wrath to pounce upon evil. Thus fortitude and wrath work directly upon each other.
He only is a great man who can neglect the applause of the multitude and enjoy himself independent of its favor.
Honor's a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacence, if they discover none of the like in themselves.
When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to fall into the like.
Our Grub-street biographers watch for the death of a great man like so many undertakers on purpose to make a penny of him.
No man writes a book without meaning something, though he may not have the faculty of writing consequentially and expressing his meaning.
An indiscreet man is more hurtful than an ill-natured one; for as the latter will only attack his enemies, and those he wishes ill to, the other injures indifferently both friends and foes.
Plutarch says very finely that a man should not allow himself to hate even his enemies.
It is usual for a Man who loves Country Sports to preserve the Game in his own Grounds, and divert himself upon those that belongto his Neighbour.
There is a sort of economy in Providence that one shall excel where another is defective, in order to make men more useful to each other, and mix them in society.
Unbounded courage and compassion join'd, Tempering each other in the victor's mind, Alternately proclaim him good and great, And make the hero and the man complete.
Why, a spirit is such a little, little thing, that I have heard man, who was a great scholar, say that he'll dance ye a hornpipe upon the point of a needle.
There is not on earth a spectacle more worthy the regard of a Creator intent on his works, than a brave man superior to his sufferings.
Our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our nearer acquaintance with him; and we seldom hear of a celebrated person without a catalogue of some notorious weaknesses and infirmities.
Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion, benevolence, and humanity.
A jealous man is very quick in his application: he knows how to find a double edge in an invective, and to draw a satire on himself out of a panegyrick on another.
God is a wider consciousness than we are, a pure intelligence, spiritual life and actuality. He is neither one nor many, neither man nor spirit. Such predicates belong only to finite beings.
The plain truth is that the reporter's trade is for young men. Your feet, which do the legwork, are nine times more important than your head, which fits the facts into a coherent pattern.
Tragedy, as you know, is always a fait accompli, whereas terror always has to do with anticipation, with man's recognition of hisown negative potential--with his sense of what he is capable of.