Men Quotes

Our very walking is an incessant falling; a falling and a catching of ourselves before we come actually to the pavement. It is emblematic of all things a man does.

There are female dandies as well as clothes-wearing men; and the former are as objectionable as the latter.

Man is, and was always, a block-head and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider.

Men are grown mechanical in head and in the heart, as well as in the hand. They have lost faith in individual endeavour, and in natural force of any kind.

What, in the devil's name, is the use of respectability, with never so many gigs and silver spoons, if thou inwardly art the pitifulness of all men?

It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.

Does not every true man feel that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what is really above him?

Every man is my superior in that I may learn from him.

Not only was Thebes built by the music of an Orpheus; but without the music of some inspired Orpheus was no city ever built, no work that man glories in ever done.

In the poorest cottage are Books: is one Book, wherein for several thousands of years the spirit of man has found light, and nourishment, and an interpreting response to whatever is Deepest in him.

A poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering.

Cash-payment is not the sole nexus of man with man.

The Highest Being reveals himself in man.

God Almighty never created a man half as wise as he looks.

There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.

A false man found a religion? Why, a false man cannot build a brick house!

A fair day's wage for a fair day's work": it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.

Man's earthly interests,'are all hooked and buttoned together, and held up, by Clothes.

Beautiful it is, and a gleam from the same eternal pole-star visible amid the destinies of men, that all talent, all intellect, is in the first plane moral. What a world were this otherwise!

I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.

What unknown seas of feeling lie in man, and will from time to time break through!

Are not our greatest men as good as lost? The men that walk daily among us, warming us, feeding us, walk shrouded in darkness, mere mythic men.

A man's perfection is his work.

Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right; he will grow daily more and more right. It is at bottom the condition on which all men have to cultivate themselves.

Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists. It is in reality no longer expected or recognized as a virtue among men.

Every man's religion is his own, and nobody else's business.

A brave man is sometimes a desperado: a bully is always a coward.

What studies please, what most delight, And fill men's thoughts, they dream them o'er at night.

The peace of nature and of the innocent creatures of god seems to be secure and deep, only so long as the presence of man and his restless and unquiet spirit are not there to trouble its sanctity.

When a man says his word is as his bond - get his bond.

No man, and least of all myself, could ever disentangle the feelings that animated him.

Labor, therefore, is a duty from which no man living is exempt, without forfeiting his right to his daily bread.

I don't think a monarchy led by 75- and 80-year-old men [Saudi Arabia] in today's modern world is really sustainable.

That man may last, but never lives, Who much receives, but nothing gives; Whom none can love, whom none can thank,- Creation's blot, creation's blank.

And now 'tis man who dares assault the sky ... And as we come to claim our promised place, Aim only to replay the good you gave, And warm with human love the chill of space.

Ah, tell them they are men!

Kissing's a good thing, man. It's the doorbell of intimacy.

I would just turn into a giant pair of lips. "Oh God! There he is! It's Lip-Man!"

Men thin away to insignificance and oblivion quite as often by not making the most of good spirits when they have them as by lacking good spirits when they are indispensable.

It's fear, Jack. The man deals with a huge amount of fear.' Because he got hurt?' No, not entirely. Fear comes with imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price of imagination.

No man can be judge to his own cause.

Faith is a gift of God, which man can neither give nor take away by promise of rewards or menace of torture.

When a man tells me God hath spoken in a dream, I know he dreamt that God spoke to him.

Men looke not at the greatnesse of the evill past, but the greatnesse of the good to follow.

For all uniting of strength by private men, is, if for evil intent, unjust; if for intent unknown, dangerous to the Publique, and unjustly concealed.

For naturall Bloud is in like manner made of the fruits of the Earth; and circulating, nourisheth by the way, every Member of the Body of Man.

Corporations are may lesser commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of a natural man.

When two, or more men, know of one and the same fact, they are said to be CONSCIOUS of it one to another; which is as much as to know it together.

Competition of praise inclineth to a reverence of antiquity. For men contend with the living, not with the dead.

The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but cannot avoid, without reckoning anew from the beginning.