Men Quotes
Men, however distinguished by external accidents or intrinsick qualities, have all the same wants, the same pains, and, as far as the senses are consulted, the same pleasures.
Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.
Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.
Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it.
No man tells his opinion so freely as when he imagines it received with implicit veneration.
Stand Firm for your country, and become a man Honour'd and lov'd: It were a noble life, To be found dead, embracing her.
Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.
No man can perform so little as not to have reason to congratulate himself on his merits, when he beholds the multitude that live in total idleness, and have never yet endeavoured to be useful.
Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment.
It is not often that any man can have so much knowledge of another, as is necessary to make instruction useful.
Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.
A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind.
Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.
An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty. Men who have practiced tortures on animals without pity, relating them without shame, how can they still hold their heads among human beings?
From all our observations we may collect with certainty, that misery is the lot of man, but cannot discover in what particular condition it will find most alleviations.
Men are most powerfully affected by those evils which themselves feel, or which appear before their own eyes.
No wonder, Sir, that he is vain; a man who is perpetually flattered in every mode that can be conceived. So many bellows have blown the fire, that one wonders he is not by this time become a cinder.
The faults of a man loved or honoured sometimes steal secretly and imperceptibly upon the wise and virtuous, but by injudicious fondness or thoughtless vanity are adopted with design.
Also remember that in any man's dark hour, a pat on the back and an earnest handclasp may work a small miracle.
Battles are won through the ability of men to express concrete ideas in clear and unmistakable language.
To do evil is more within the reach of every man, in public as in private life, than to do good.
To find by experience that friendships are mortal, is the hard but inevitable lot of fallible and imperfect men.
Reverence to a woman in courtship is less to be dispensed with, as, generally, there is but little of it shown afterwards.
There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.
Old men, imagining themselves under obligation to young paramours, seldom keep any thing from their knowledge.
A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.
Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.
A good man will honor him who lives up to his religious profession, whatever it be.
Every man by nature is a freeman born; by nature no man cometh out of the womb under any civil subjection to king, prince, or judge.
Woman, above all other educators, educates humanly. Man is the brain, but woman is the heart, of humanity.