Men Quotes

Happiness is not the portion of man.

Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees.

It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms.

When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.

No man is boss in his own home, but he can make up for it, he thinks, by making a dog play dead.

Let us honor if we can the vertical man, though we value none but the horizontal one

An unmanly sort of man whose love life seems to have been largely confined to crying in laps and playing mouse.

The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.

To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, is a keen observer of life. The word Intellectual suggests straight away. A man who's untrue to his wife.

That's the nature of my [stand-up] act: black man with a white baby.

What was it in the human heart that made you despise a man because he loved you?

Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves.

What mean and cruel things men can do for the love of God.

It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man.

The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth sense which enables you to enjoy the other five.

With the superciliousness of extreme youth, I put thirty-five as the utmost limit at which a man might fall in love without making a fool of himself.

Art, if it is to be reckoned as one of the great values of life, must teach man humility, tolerance, wisdom and magnanimity. The value of art is not beauty, but right action.

The life force is vigorous. The delight that accompanies it counter-balances all the pains and hardships that confront men. It makes life worth living.

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

Evil can be condoned only if in the beyond it is compensated by good and god himself needs immortality to vindicate his ways to man.

Genius is talent provided with ideals. Genius starves while talent wears purple and fine linen. The man of genius of today will infifty years' time be in most cases no more than a man of talent.

Because a man can write great works he is none the less a man.

I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to the universities go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene ... They are scum.

There's nothing the world loves more than a ready-made description which they can hang on to a man, and so save themselves all trouble in future.

Why did God make woman so beautiful and man with such a loving heart?

Every man comes into the world with a predisposition to grow along certain lines, and growth is easier for him along those lines than in any other way.

The really great man is often considered selfish by a large group of people who are connected with him and who feel that he might bestow upon them more benefits than he does.

There is no possibility in any man that is not in every man

Genius is Omniscience flowing into man.

Gratitude unifies the mind of man with the intelligence of substance, so that man's thoughts are received by the formless.

It is a natural law that like causes always produce like effects; and, therefore, any man or woman who learns to do things in this certain way will infallibly get rich.

I'm a very lucky man. It's a beautiful thing for a writer, to see people allowing your words to enter their own unconscious and their souls.

In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supporting or character actors.

It gives a man character as a poet to have a daily contact with a job. I doubt whether I've lost a thing by leading an exceedingly regular and disciplined life.

What is one man among so many men? What are so many men in such a world? Can one man think one thing and think it long? Can one man be one thing and be it long?

Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world

It has to be living, to learn the speech of the place, It has to face the man of the time.

A diary is more or less the work of a man of clay whose hands are clumsy and in whose eyes there is no light.

Man is an eternal sophomore.

It may be that the ignorant man, alone, Has any chance to mate his life with life That is the sensual, pearly spouse, the life That is fluent in even the wintriest bronze.

A parade is the worst form of transportation known to man.

Man tries to swallow meaning whole as a dog would eat his dinner.

Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric or fail of their sanity.

THIS dust was once the Man, / Gentle, plain, just and resolute—under whose cautious hand, / Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age, / Was saved the Union of These States.

Man is about the same, in the main, whether with despotism, or whether with freedom.

Camerado! This is no book; who touches this touches a man.

When I undertake to tell the best, I find I cannot. My tongue is ineffectual on its pivots, My breath will not be obedient to its organs, I become a dumb man.

One cannot make men good by Act of Parliament.

Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

No man has come so near our definition of a constitutional statesman - the powers of a first-rate man and the creed of a second-rate man.