Men Quotes

It is the greatest folly of which a man can be capable to sit down with a slate and pencil to plan out a new social world.

If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men ever are subject.

Thou hast no life to lose, because thou hast given it already to Christ, nor can man take away that without God's leave.

It was my first impulse, but I chose to play the priest as a true believer who was an absolute man of faith that absolutely supports the church.

No man is above the law.

No distinction is 'tween man and man, But as his virtues add to him a glory Or vices cloud him.

Wilhelm Steinitz was the first man to appreciate the inherent logic behind the game of chess.

Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm.

We imagine that the admiration of the works of celebrated men has become common, because the admiration of their names has become so.

Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid.

It might be argued, that to be a knave is the gift of fortune, but to play the fool to advantage it is necessary to be a learned man.

A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.

It may be made a question whether men grow wiser as they grow older, anymore than they grow stronger or healthier or honest.

Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both.

A man who is determined never to move out of the beaten road cannot lose his way.

Reflection brakes men cowards. There is no object that can be put in competition with life, unless it is viewed through the medium of passion, and we are hurried away by the impulse of the moment.

No young man ever thinks he shall die.

No man would, I think, exchange his existence with any other man, however fortunate. We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves.

The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself; the one makes him a tyrant, the other a slave.

Charity, like nature, abhors a vacuum. Next to putting it in a bank, men like to squander their superfluous wealth on those to whom it is sure to be doing the least possible good.

Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.

Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants or dwarfs.

Vanity does not refer to the opinion a man entertains of himself, but to that which he wishes others to entertain of him.

Men will die for an opinion as soon as for anything else.

Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask.

No man can thoroughly master more than one art or science.

A proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.

Those only deserve a monument who do not need one; that is, who have raised themselves a monument in the minds and memories of men.

A man is a hypocrite only when he affects to take a delight in what he does not feel, not because he takes a perverse delight in opposite things.

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization.

Many a man would have turned rogue if he knew how.

Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction.

After an unremitting and severe labour of two days, we returned to our old encampment with the loss of some of my horses, and my men excessively fatigued.

No man can run up the natural line of Evolution without coming to Christianity at the top.

After a hard frost a man might wake in the morning and find he was breaking a covenant.

When the history of this period is written, [William Jennings] Bryan will stand out as one of the most remarkable men of his generation and one of the biggest political men of our country.

I don't know the man I admire more than [Charles Evans] Hughes. If ever I have the chance I shall offer him the Chief Justiceship.

I want to nominate a man who's cool on the outside, but who burns for America on the inside.

I hate that man Obama more than any man I've ever met, more than any man who ever lived.

A man is more than the sum of all the things he can do.

I want a man who had the good sense to marry Michelle Obama.

What's a man got to do to get in the top fifty?

Men must be honest with themselves before they can be honest with others. A man who is not honest with himself presents a hopeless case.

The more men, generally speaking, will do for a Dollar when they make it, the more that Dollar will do for them when they spend it.

No man can make good during working hours who does the wrong thing outside of working hours.

When away from home always be like the kind of man you would care to take into your own home.

You cannot help the small men, by tearing down the big men.

Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life.

Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.

Hogamus, higamous Man is polygamous Higamus, hogamous Woman monogamous.