Men Quotes

Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.

A noisy man is always in the right.

Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: hell might afford my miseries a shelter; therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all bolted against me.

All constraint, / Except what wisdom lays on evil men, / Is evil.

There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart; he does not feel for man.

Some men make gain a fountain, whence proceeds A stream of liberal and heroic deeds; The swell of pity, not to be confined Within the scanty limits of the mind.

If a great man struggling with misfortunes is a noble object, a little man that despises them is no contemptible one.

Man in society is like a flow'r, Blown in its native bed. 'Tis there alone His faculties expanded in full bloom Shine out, there only reach their proper use.

In man or woman, but far most in man, And most of all in man that ministers, And serves the altar, in my soul I loathe All affectation. 'Tis my perfect scorn: Object of my implacable disgust.

The assembled souls of all that men held wise.

The doctrine of a material hell in its effect was to chill and deaden the sympathies, predispose men to inflict suffering, and to retard the march of civilization.

Did any man at his death ever regret his conflicts with himself, his victories over appetite, his scorn of impure pleasure, or his sufferings for righteousness' sake?

My highway is unfeatured air, My consorts are the sleepless stars, And men my giant arms upbear My arms unstained and free from scars.

Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.

A man may quarrel with himself alone; that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with temptation.

All those large dreams by which men long live well Are magic-lanterned on the smoke of hell.

Shakespeare and Rembrandt have in common the faculty of quickening speculation and compelling the minds of men to combat and discussion.

Into the winter's gray delight, Into the summer's golden dream, Holy and high and impartial, Death, the mother of Life, Mingles all men for ever.

Without good-will, no man has any presumptive right, except the right or opportunity to change his will, so long as there is hope of it.

No religion is a true religion that does not make men tingle to their finger tips with a sense of infinite hazard.

...It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.

To the man grown the long crowded mile of his boyhood becomes less than the throw of a stone.

What's wrong with this world is, it's not finished yet. It is not completed to that point where man can put his final signature to the job and say, "It is finished. We made it, and it works.

...thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.

It seems impossible for a man to learn the value of money without first having to learn to waste it.

It's the most satisfying occupation man has discovered yet, because you never can quite do it as well as you want to, so there's always something to wake up tomorrow morning to do.

A man never gets anywhere if facts and his ledgers don't square.

And when I think about that, I think that if nothing but being married will help a man, he's durn nigh hopeless.

ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crisis with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.

Poor man. Poor mankind.

So vast, so limitless in capacity is man's imagination to disperse and burn away the rubble-dross of fact and probability, leaving only truth and dream.

You men,' she says. 'You durn men.

Men do their hardest work at the bottom of the ladder, not at the top.

The rule for every worthwhile man is that no serious job ever shall receive less than his best thought and effort.

Management is the art of getting three men to do three men's work

Only the man who can impose discipline on himself is fit to discipline others or can impose discipline on others.

Mistakes occur when a man is over-worked or over-confident.

We don't need men with new ideas as much as we need men who will put energy behind the old ideas.

A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

A man must earnestly want.

Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.

Books are the depositary of everything that is most honourable to man.

Power is not happiness. Security and peace are more to be desired than a name at which nations tremble.

Every novel is a biography. Well, then, this is a novel [The Paper Men] which is a biography that is pretending to be an autobiography. That's what you could say about it.

"I could give you my word as a Spaniard," Inigo said. "No good," the man in black replied. "I've known too many Spaniards."

You're alive!" Fezzik cried. The man in black sat immobile, like a ventriloquist's dummy, just his mouth moving. "That is perhaps the most childishly obvious remark I have ever come across.

You seem a decent fellow," Inigo said. "I hate to kill you." You seem a decent fellow," answered the man in black. "I hate to die.

What man ever blamed himself for his misfortune?

A fool is wiser in his own house than a sage is in another man's house.

What is the real relation between happiness and goodness? It is only within a few generations that men have found courage to say that there is none.