Men Quotes
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No one should therefore fear that he cannot accomplish what others have accomplished, for, men are born, live, and die in quite the same way they always have.
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When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.
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Some men are born kings; and some are born statesmen. The two are seldom the same.
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We've got to protect our young men and women and we've got to win that, whatever the cost.
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There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
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But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.
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I loved to hit with men on base and with the game on the line.
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To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell is to be banished from humanity. What is cast (or casts itself) into hell is not a man: it is 'remains.'
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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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I've been propositioned by men who were in a position to cast me. I lost a few roles because I didn't give in.
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The real secrets of Masonry are never told, not even from mouth to ear. For the real secret of Masonry is spoken to your heart and from it to the heart of your brother. Never the language made for tongue may speak it, it is uttered only in the eye in those manifestations of that love which a man has for his friend, which passeth all other loves.
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Man's record upon this wild world is the record of work, and of work alone.
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Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
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Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen - but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present.
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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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Men of few words are the best men." (3.2.41)
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All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellow-men in order that they might win the joys of earth at the expense of others and might shift the burdens of life from their own shoulders upon those of others.
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Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance. So Ambrosius says, and it is also to be found in the Decretum Gratiani: The bread which you withhold belongs to the hungry: the clothing you shut away, to the naked: and the money you bury in the earth is the redemption and freedom of the penniless.
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There are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence.
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There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
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Men sholde wedden after hir estat, For youthe and elde is often at debat.
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If what the philosophers say be true,-that all men's actions proceed from one source; that as they assent from a persuasion that a thing is so, and dissent from a persuasion that it is not, and suspend their judgment from a persuasion that it is uncertain,-so likewise they seek a thing from a persuasion that it is for their advantage.
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Keep time! How sour sweet music is when time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives. I wasted time and now doth time waste me.
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Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.
