Men Quotes

I never object to a certain degree of disputatiousness in a young man from the age of seventeen to that of four or five and twenty, provided I find him always arguing on one side of the question.

It requires time to bring honest Men to think & determine alike even in important Matters. Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

I don’t like animals. It’s a strange thing, I don’t like men and I don’t like animals. As for God, he is beginning to disgust me.

There is man in his entirety, blaming his shoe when his foot is guilty.

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.

Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.

Men of Science. If they are worthy of the name they are indeed about God's path and about his bed and spying out all his ways.

It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.

This world is like Noah's Ark. In which few men but many beasts embark.

He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.

If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?

Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.

We come to know best what men are, in their worse jeopardizes.

Man is a Creature of a wilful Head, And hardly driven is, but eas'ly led.

I was a very serious young man, very committed to saving the world.

... man cannot help but transcend himself as soon as he begins to design and construct.

I don't want to be surrounded by 'yes men'. I want people who'll disagree with me, even if it costs them their jobs.

Every man has something to do which he neglects, every man has faults to conquer which he delays to combat.

It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.

Such seems to be the disposition of man, that whatever makes a distinction produces rivalry.

As the mind must govern the hands, so in every society the man of intelligence must direct the man of labor.

People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men.

No man hates him at whom he can laugh.

It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are often actually in want of money. It is clear, they have not value for what they spend.

Commerce can never be at a stop while one man wants what another can supply; and credit will never be denied, while it is likely to be repaid with profit.

Wine gives great pleasure, and every pleasure is of itself a good. and A man should cultivate his mind so as to have that confidence and readiness without wine, which wine gives.

Every man may be observed to have a certain strain of lamentation, some peculiar theme of complaint on which he dwells in his moments of dejection.

Men become friends by a community of pleasures.

A thousand years may elapse before there shall appear another man with a power of versification equal to that of Pope.

I do not see, Sir, that it is reasonable for a man to be angry at another, whom a woman has preferred to him; but angry he is, no doubt; and he is loath to be angry at himself.

Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them.

Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.

Sir, as a man advances in life, he gets what is better than admiration, - judgement, to estimate things at their true value.

Every man's affairs, however little, are important to himself.

A man had rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be told.

To do something is in every man's power.

A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one.

The balls of sight are so formed, that one man's eyes are spectacles to another, to read his heart with.

Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.

The belief of immortality is impressed upon all men, and all men act under an impression of it, however they may talk, and though, perhaps, they may be scarcely sensible of it.

No man is obliged to do as much as he can do. A man is to have part of his life to himself.

Keeping accounts, sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is to account. You won't eat less beef today because you have written down what it cost yesterday.

If a man is in doubt whether it would be better for him to expose himself to martyrdom or not, he should not do it. He must be convinced that he has a delegation from heaven.

Though the wisdom or virtue of one can very rarely make many happy, the folly or vice of one man often make many miserable.

All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.

No estimate is more in danger of erroneous calculations than those by which a man computes the force of his own genius.

You cannot, by all the lecturing in the world, enable a man to make a shoe.

Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly

The roads of science are narrow, so that they who travel them, must wither follow or meet one another.

Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied.