The Man Quotes

Men make history. History does not make the man.

Being a sick man is like being a log caught in a stream, Gilles. All the straws gather around it.

[Ronald] Reagan seems to be a man of some basic convictions and on the other hand willing to let others do the ground homework, the detailed work.

Before crime is committed conscience must be corrupted, and every bad man who succeeds in reaching a high point of wickedness begins with this.

Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.

The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.

The artist and his work are not to be separated. The most willfully foolish man cannot stand aloof from his folly, but the deed and the doer together make ever one sober fact.

One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one.

It is the man determines what is said, not the words.

I fear that he who walks over these fields a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples. Ah, poor man, there are many pleasures which he will not know!

Every man has to learn the points of the compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction.

Nothing can shock a brave man but dullness.

A thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking into his accounts.

For the most part we stupidly confound one man with another. The dull distinguish only races or nations, or at most classes, but the wise man, individuals.

One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living.

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

This bird sees the white man come and the Indian withdraw, but it withdraws not. Its untamed voice is still heard above the tinkling of the forge... It remains to remind us of aboriginal nature.

One revelation has been made to the Indian, another to the white man.

A tanned skin is something more than respectable, and perhaps olive is a fitter color than white for a man,--a denizen of the woods. "The pale white man!" I do not wonder that the African pitied him.

The brave man braves nothing, nor knows he of his bravery.

Nothing can rightly compel a simple and brave man to a vulgar sadness.

It behooves every man to see that his influence is on the side of justice, and let the courts make their own characters.

There are continents and seas in the moral world, to which every man is an isthmus or inlet, yet unexplored by him.

Every man should stand for a force which is perfectly irresistible.

Some, it seems to me, elect their rulers for their crookedness. But I think that a straight stick makes the best cane, and an upright man the best ruler.

One who knew how to appropriate the true value of this world would be the poorest man in it. The poor rich man! all he has is whathe has bought.

He is the rich man, and enjoys the fruit of his riches, who summer and winter forever can find delight in his own thoughts.

He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behaviour as well as application.

When one man has reduced a fact of the imagination to be a fact to his understanding, I foresee that all men will at length establish their lives on that basis.

How many fine thoughts has every man had! How few fine thoughts are expressed!

I found that competition was supposed to be a menace and that a good manager circumvented his competitors by getting a monopoly by artificial means.

A business which exists to make one man or one family rich, and whose existence is of no moment when this is achieved, is not solidly founded.

Every man starts with all there is. Everything is here-the essence and substance of all there is.

Every man, however little, makes a figure in his own eyes.

A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty.

The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks.

Look to the end; and resolve to make the service of Christ the first object in what remains of life, without indifference to the opinion of your fellow men, but also without fear of it.

Every man is full of music; but it is not every man that knows how to bring it out.

His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him, though it has wearied man.

God made every man to have power to be mightier than the events round about him; to hold by his firm will the reigns by which all things are guided.

There are materials enough in every man's mind to make a hell there.

Every man carries a menagerie in himself; and, by stirring him up all around, you will find every sort of animal represented there.

Nature holds an immense uncollected debt over every man's head.

Education will not come of itself; it will never come unless you seek it; it will not come unless you take the first steps which lead to it; but, taking these steps, every man can acquire it.

It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.

The avant-garde and the beatniks share in the function of entertaining without endangering the good conscience of the men of good will.

The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.

In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an old man, it boldly leads the way, and ushers me on.

I will live and die by this testimony: that I loved a good conscience; that I never invaded another man's liberty; and that I preserved my own.

Not one man in five cycles, who is wise, will expect appreciative recognition from his fellows, or any one of them.