Men Quotes
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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.
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Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.
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Absolute discretion is a ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any of man's other inventions.
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What should a man do but be merry? For look you how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father died within's two hours.
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Our ministry also supports orphanages in the U.S. and overseas, thousands of poor children in Latin America, drug centers for addicted men, and a drug center in Israel.
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Men may be spoiled by education, even as they are spoiled by illiteracy. Education is the preparation of the mind for future work, hence men should be educated with special reference to the work.
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One of the men attached to the prison was the occasion of great amusement on the part of the prisoners, as well as the spectators, by taking a large lump of ice to show these strangers from the tropics.
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Man, just tryin' to get as much sleep as possible, to drink in water, and tryin' to make sure that my people give me the proper information to be able to get in front of people and speak. That's all I need.
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You know the Scripture says "be not deceived for God is not mocked; whatsoever a man sow that shall he also reap." And one day, I don't know how they're going to get it, but they're going to get some of it back. They are scared to death and are more afraid now than we are.
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Man's needs are infinite, and infinitude can be achieved only in the spiritual realm, never in the material.
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He asks from men all that he has in himself, though even lions would not claim to match that.
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You men have none of you any hearts.' 'If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.
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There's a race of men that don't fit in, A race that can't sit still; So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will. They range the field and rove the flood, And they climb the mountain's crest; Their's is the curse of the gypsy blood, And they don't know how to rest.
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A woman only obliges a man to secrecy, that she may have the pleasure of telling herself.
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One fool can ask more questions in a minute than 12 wise men can answer in an hour.
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I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: The Genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
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All of the men on my staff can type.
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It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.
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I deeply believe that marriage is by nature between a man and a woman, but that conviction does not prevent me from recognising that other forms of affective relationships exist.
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Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.
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The child shall become father to the man.
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Of some calamity we can have no relief but from God alone; and what would men do, in such a case if it were not for God?
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To understand political power aright, and derive from it its original, we must consider what estate all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of Nature, without asking leave or depending upon the will of any other man.
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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
