X Men Quotes

To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.

To wash and dress a corpse is a far different thing from making it alive: Man can do the one--God alone can do the other.

A man who does nothing never has time to do anything

War crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness, all that is Godlike in man. In our age there can be no peace that is not honorable; there can be no war that is not dishonorable.

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Men are a luxury, not a necessity.

Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is sharper.

Work is the basis of living. I'll never retire. A man'll rust out quicker than he'll wear out.

A lot of learned men think people really are the food theyve eaten.

The gentleman calls attention to the good points in others; he does not call attention to their defects. The small man does just the reverse of this.

The wise man admires water, the kind man admires mountains. The wise man moves, the kind man rests. The wise man is happy, the kind man is firm.

In the person of Christ a man has not become God; God has become man.

A barber lathers a man before he shaves him.

Rage or fear... It oscillates. Rage I need to motivate me to try things that I can't ordinarily do - as I'm a lazy man. Fear - to keep pushing harder so we don't lose what we've accomplished.

A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.

Senior men have no monopoly on great ideas. Nor do creative people. Some of the best ideas come from account executives, researchers and others. Encourage this, you need all the ideas you can get.

Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.

The question was put to him, what hope is; and his answer was, "The dream of a waking man."

Where's the man could ease a heart Like a satin gown?

The Bible says, as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he

The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases

The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.

A man who never sees a bluebird only half lives.

Communism which feeds on aggression, hatred, and the imprisonment of men's minds and souls shall not take root in the United States.

No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.

If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good.

The real mistake of women was to let the memoir, the collective, the history, space of producing history - to let it in the hands of men.

Ferrari never spoke to me again. He was a great man, I admit, but it was so very easy to upset him.

Man should tremble, the world should vibrate, all heaven should be deeply moved when the Son of God appears on the altar in the hands of the priest.

The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.

Oh, how strenuous is life! I know a little of it. Men "ought always to pray, and not to faint." How fierce the battle! I know something of the conflict, but I ought not to faint, because I can pray.

Until I came along all the leading men were handsome, but luckily they wrote a lot of stories about the fellow next door.

Beginning empty handed and alone frightens the best of men. It also speaks volumes of just how sure they are that God is with them.

The state of man's mind, or the elementary phase of mind which he so far possesses, conforms precisely to the state of the world as he so far views it

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

War is rich old men protecting their property by sending middle class and lower class young men off to die. It always has been.

The rich man never really gives anything, he only distributes part of the surplus. It is the person of moderate means who really gives.

When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

The first man who compared woman to a rose was a poet; the second, an imbecile.

Nobody notices postmen, yet they have passions like other men.

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

The confirmed man of trout should resolve to get along with wood ticks. Any other procedure would fail because the wood tick is determined to get along with trout fishermen.

Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.

Men are fine, love is fine, it's marriage I'm a little disappointed in.

A man's heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are seldom vacant.

When I hear a grown man or woman say, "Once I had faith in men, now I have not," I am inclined to ask, "Who are you whom the world has disappointed? Have not you rather disappointed the world?"

No same man could walk through the same river twice, as the man and the river have since changed.

The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.