Men Quotes

The good-humor of a man elated with success often displays itself towards enemies.

This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoundly ignorant.

In order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel and red men scalped each other by the great lakes of North America.

Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.

The ability to have our own way, and at the same time convince others they are having their own way, is a rare thing among men. Among women it is as common as eyebrows.

The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. What noble enterprises have been checked and what fine souls have been blighted in the gloom of poverty the world will never know.

At the beginning of the twentieth century barbarism can throw off its gentle disguise, and burn a man at the stake as complacently as in the Middle Ages.

They do most by Books, who could do much without them, and he that chiefly owes himself unto himself, is the substantial Man.

Oblivion is not to be hired: The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the Register of God, not in the record of man.

Miserable men commiserate not themselves; bowelless unto others, and merciless unto their own bowels.

I envy no man that knows more than myself, but pity them that know less.

Who knows whether the best of men be known? or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time?

A man is never alone, not only because he is with himself and his own thoughts, but because he is with the Devil, who ever consorts with our solitude.

God hath varied the inclinations of men according to the variety of actions to be performed.

Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs.

Had not almost every man suffered by the Press, or were not the tyranny thereof become universal, I had not wanted reason for complaint.

Times before you, when even the living men were Antiquities; when the living might exceed the dead, and to depart this world, could not be properly said, to go unto the greater number.

Think not silence the wisdom of fools; but, if rightly timed, the honor of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but the virtue of taciturnity.

The man without a navel still lives in me.

Truth ever lovely - since the world began, The foe of tyrants, and the friend of man.

Men of England! who inheritRights that cost your sires their blood.

Ye are brothers! ye are men! And we conquer but to save.

The prophet's mantle, ere his flight began, Dropt on the world--a sacred gift to man.

A stoic of the woods,--a man without a tear.

Who hail thee, Man! the pilgrim of the day, spouse of the worm, and brother of the clay.

But sad as angels for the good man's sin, Weep to record, and blush to give it in.

Without the smile from partial beauty won, O what were man? - a world without a sun.

The man whose silent daysIn harmless joys are spent,Whom hopes cannot delude,Nor sorrow discontent:That man needs neither towersNor armour for defence,Nor secret vaults to flyFrom thunder's violence.

It's a man's sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.

Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking?

Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man!

There are depths in man that go to the lowest hell, and heights that reach the highest heaven, for are not both heaven and hell made out of him, everlasting miracle and mystery that he is.

A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his valet.

One is weary of hearing about the omnipotence of money. I will say rather that, for a genuine man, it is not evil to be poor.

The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire.

Democracy will prevail when men believe the vote of Judas as good as that of Jesus Christ.

Wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and blesses which he is loved and blessed by.

What this country needs is a man who knows God other than by heresay.

I never heard tell of any clever man that came of entirely stupid people.

The highest ensign that men ever met and embraced under, the Cross itself, had no meaning save an accidental extrinsic one.

Over the times thou hast no power. . . . Solely over one man thou hast quite absolute power. Him redeem and make honest.

They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act on the heart of man.

In a certain sense all men are historians.

There is something in man which your science cannot satisfy.

A noble book! all men's book!

A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of interesting the greatest man.

Prayer is and remains always a native and deepest impulse of the soul of man.

Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner.

Freedom is the one purport, wisely aimed at, or unwisely, of all man's struggles, toilings and sufferings, in this earth.

A background of wrath, which can be stirred up to the murderous infernal pitch, does lie in every man.