Men Quotes

Nothing is more common than to find men, whose works are now totally neglected, mentioned with praises by their contemporaries as the oracles of their age, and the legislators of science.

As the faculty of writing has chiefly been a masculine endowment, the reproach of making the world miserable has always been thrown upon the women.

Get together a hundred or two men, however sensible they may be, and you are very likely to have a mob.

Was there ever yet anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress?

It is man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age.

Sir, if a man has a mind to prance, he must study at Christ Church and All Souls.

It is much easier not to write like a man than to write like a woman.

Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate, and may be offensive .

Though the discoveries or acquisitions of man are not always adequate to the expectations of his pride, they are at least sufficient to animate his industry.

As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it.

Such is the constitution of Man that labor may be said to be its own re-ward.

A man has no more right to say an uncivil thing than to act one; no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down.

The man who feels himself ignorant should, at least, be modest.

Irresolution and mutability are often the faults of men whose views are wide, and whose imagination is vigorous and excursive.

A married man has many cares, but a bachelor no pleasures.

Instead of rating the man by his performances, we rate too frequently the performances by the man.

When a man feel the reprehension of a friend seconded by his own heart, he is easily heated into resentment.

Scarce any man becomes eminently disagreeable but by a departure from his real character, and an attempt at something for which nature or education has left him unqualified.

The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve to avoid it; and it must be avoided generally by the science of sparing.

How few of his friends' houses would a man choose to be at when he is sick.

The good of our present state is merely comparative, and the evil which every man feels will be sufficient to disturb and harass him if he does not know how much he escapes.

Every man that has felt pain knows how little all other comforts can gladden him to whom health is denied. Yet who is there does not sometimes hazard it for the enjoyment of an hour?

The commodiousness of money is indeed great; but there are some advantages which money cannot buy, and which therefore no wise man will by the love of money be tempted to forego.

Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities superior, either in kind or degree, to those which he sees allotted to the rest of the world.

A man who always talks for fame never can be pleasing. The man who talks to unburthen his mind is the man to delight you.

Most men are more willing to indulge in easy vices than to practise laborious virtues.

Men have been wise in many different modes; but they have always laughed the same way.

There may be other reasons for a man's not speaking in publick than want of resolution: he may have nothing to say.

It is incident to physicians, I am afraid, beyond all other men, to mistake subsequence for consequence.

What is the reason that women servants ... have much lower wages than men servants ... when in fact our female house servants work much harder than the male?

Surely, it is much easier to respect a man who has always had respect, than to respect a man who we know was last year no better than ourselves, and will be no better next year.

Inquiries into the heart are not for man.

A newswriter is a man without virtue, who lies at home for his own profit.

Most men are unwilling to be taught.

No man should attempt to teach others what he has never learned himself

It is astonishing that any man can forbear enquiring seriously whether there is a God; whether God is just; whether this life is the only state of existence.

He that pines with hunger, is in little care how others shall be fed. The poor man is seldom studious to make his grandson rich.

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

I do not care to speak ill of a man behind his back, but I believe he is an attorney.

A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.

No man can enjoy happiness without thinking that he enjoys it.

Learn that the present hour alone is man's.

I have all my life long been lying in bed till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good.

A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.

If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.

I would advise no man to marry who is not likely to propagate understanding.

God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?

No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance.