Men Quotes
Reaching into one's own pocket to assist his fellow man is noble and worthy of praise. Reaching into another person's pocket to assist one's fellow man is despicable and worthy of condemnation.
Reaching into someone else's pocket to assist one's fellow man hardly qualifies as charity.
Faith is obscure. By faith a man moves through darkness; but he moves securely, his hand in the hand of God. He is literally seeing through the eyes of God.
When people are still getting pleasure from something that you did 30 years ago, it makes you feel good. I always say it makes an old man happy.
I used to be an angry man myself. I’m a recovering assaholic so I could recognize that in Steve. (quoting Jean-Louis Gassée)
It is remarkable how very individual technique becomes in watercolour. Every man of personality finally arrives at a method peculiarly his own, as unique as his own fingerprint.
The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.
The public interest may be presumed to be what men would choose if they saw clearly, thought rationally, acted disinterestedly and benevolently.
Whereas each man claims his freedom as a matter of right, the freedom he accords to other men is a matter of toleration.
The man who raises new issues has always been distasteful to politicians. He musses up what had been so tidily arranged.
The wiser a man is, it seems to me, the more vividly he can see the future as part of the evolving present. He doesn't break the flow of life, he directs it, hastens it, but preserves its continuity.
The host of men who stand between a great thinker and the average man are not automatic transmitters. They work on the ideas; perhaps that is why a genius usually hates his disciples.
All men desire their own perfect adjustment, but they desire it, being finite men, on their own terms.
It was in the recognition that there is in each man a final essence, that is to say an immortal soul which only God can judge, that a limit was set upon the dominion of men over men.
The whole speculation about morality is an effort to find a way of living which men who live it will instinctively feel is good.
But what is propaganda, if not the effort to alter the picture to which men respond, to substitute one social pattern for another?
There comes a time when even the reformer is compelled to face the fairly widespread suspicion of the average man that politics is an exhibition in which there is much ado about nothing.
Modern men are afraid of the past. It is a record of human achievement, but its other face is human defeat.
What each man does is based not on direct and certain knowledge, but on pictures made by himself or given to him...
When Holy Church occasionally hinted that she still considered her authority to be supreme over all nations and superior to the authority of states, men in these times tended to snicker.
Men must fumble awhile with error to separate it from truth, I think- as long as they don't seize the error hungrily because it has a pleasanter taste.
It is said that water is for cattle and farmers, that milk is for children and blood for men.
The difference between a rich man and a poor man is this--the former eats when he pleases, and the latter when he can get it.
Death, which hateth and destroyeth a man, is believed; God, which hath made him and loves him, is always deferred.
It were better for a man to be subject to any vice than to drunkenness; for all other vanities and sins are recovered, but a drunkard will never shake off the delight of beastliness.
If in argument we can make a man angry with us, we have drawn him from his vantage ground and overcome him.
I have since written what no tide Shall ever wash away, what men Unborn shall read o'er ocean wide And find Ianthe's name agen.
Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition; never to be listened to, and to be listened to always.
Around the child bend all the threeSweet Graces: Faith, Hope, Charity.Around the man bend other faces;Pride, Envy, Malice, are his Graces.
States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.
There is a desire of property in the sanest and best men, which Nature seems to have implanted as conservative of her works, and which is necessary to encourage and keep alive the arts.
Do not expect to be acknowledged for what you are, much less for what you would be; since no one can well measure a great man but upon the bier.
Come forth, old man,--thy daughter's side Is now the fitting place for thee: When time has quell'd the oak's bold pride, The youthful tendril yet may hide, The ruins of the parent tree.
He who indulges his sense in any excesses renders himself obnoxious to his own reason; and, to gratify the brute in him, displeases the man, and sets his two natures at variance.
Oh, on that day, that wrathful day, When man to judgment wakes front clay, Be Thou, O Christ, the sinner's stay, Though heaven and earth shall pass away.
When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone.
Where, where was Roderick then? One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men.
Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin!
Thus aged men, full loth and slow, The vanities of life forego, And count their youthful follies o'er, Till Memory lends her light no more.