Men Quotes

We need tolerant men. We must all give in a little.

Ideas are indeed the most dangerous weapons in the world. Our ideas of freedom are the most powerful political weapons man has ever forged.

When a man knows how to live amid danger, he is not afraid to die. When he is not afraid to die, he is, strangely, free to live.

The right to work, I had assumed, was the most precious liberty that man possesses. Man has indeed as much right to work as he has to live, to be free, to own property.

A vain man is a nauseous creature: he is so full of himself that he has no room for anything else, be it never so good or deserving.

It is certain that the most natural and human government is that of consent, for that binds freely, ... when men hold their liberty by true obedience to rules of their own making.

Let us then try what Love will do: For if Men do once see we love them, we should soon find they would not harm us.

Tis the glory of a man to vail to truth; as it is the mark of a good nature to be easily entreated.

Interest has the security, though not the virtue of a principle. As the world goes, it is the surest side; for men daily leave both relations and religion to follow it.

There is a troublesome humor some men have, that if they may not lead, they will not follow; but had rather a thing were never done, than not done their own way, tho' other ways very desirable.

That plenty should produce either covetousness or prodigality is a perversion of providence; and yet the generality of men are the worse for their riches.

It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.

Men not living to what they know, cannot blame God, that they know no more.

Nothing but a good life can fit men for a better one hereafter.

A man in business must put up many affronts if he loves his own quiet.

Cunning to wise, is as an Ape to a Man.

A man, like a watch, is to be valued for his manner of going.

The atrocious crime of being a young man . . . I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny.

One of the greatest myths of all time is that so-called civilized man is no longer an animal, and for that reason can strive to disarm himself and grow fat with false concepts.

Of all influences that cause men to choose wrong, selfishness is undoubtedly the strongest. Where it is, the Spirit is not.

Selfishness draws men into a spiritual vacuum where, absorbed in self service, they shut out all others.

A man is never so truly and intensely himself as when he is most possessed by God. It is impossible to say where, in the spiritual life, the human will leaves off and divine grace begins.

It is becoming impossible for those who mix at all with their fellow-men to believe that the grace of God is distributed denominationally.

Man will never be entirely willing to give up this world for the next nor the next world for this.

They all lie, from the top man down to the bottom. If their lips are moving, a lie is unfolding.

In books I converse with men, in the Bible I converse with God.

Courage makes a man more than himself; for he is then himself plus his valor.

Every man is his own greatest dupe.

Common sense is the average sensibility and intelligence of men undisturbed by individual peculiarities.

The lower a man descends in his love, the higher he lifts his life.

I have no hostility towards men. Some of my best friends are men. I married a man, and my father was a man.

I think Judge Learned Hand was a cultured, intelligent man.

Color and bite permeate a language designed to rally many men, to destroy some, and to change the minds of others.

Some handsome and ambitious men believe they are above all morality, and a woman's virtue becomes a mere challenge to them.

There's a pretty woman for ever lucky man in the world: every man in the world is a lucky man if he only knew it, so why waste time?

Remember that every man is a variation of yourself. No man's guilt is not yours, nor is any man's innocence a thing apart.

Armenag Saroyan. A good man of whom the worst that anybody was willing to say, was that he was too good for this world.

The love of wicked men converts to fear; That fear to hate, and hate turns one or both To worthy danger and deserved death.

Just death, kind umpire of men's miseries.

O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible, As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple.

Accommodated; that is, when a man is, as they say, accommodated; or when a man is, being, whereby a' may be thought to be accommodated,?which is an excellent thing.

Greatness, once fallen out with fortune, must fall out with men too.

They say, the tongues of dying men Enforce attention, like deep harmony; Where words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain; For they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain.

I cannot draw a cart, nor eat dried oats; If it be man's work, I'll do't.

The fewer men, the greater share of honor.

Men judge by the complexion of the sky The state and inclination of the day.

See the minutes, how they run, How many make the hour full complete; How many hours bring about the day; How many days will finish up the year; How many years a mortal man may live.

No man's pie is freed From his ambitious finger.

O faithless coward! O dishonest wretch! Wilt thou be made a man out of my vice?

I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.