Men Quotes
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Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
Aristotle
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A great measure of a man is how he reacts to a midnight awakening when there's no fire or burglar in sight.
Kate Jacobs
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Men, whose span is cruelly short, rush nonetheless to death in their youth as to a maiden’s arms.
Poul Anderson
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The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature-nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing.
Bill Vaughan
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Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. I'd always thought kindness a trivial virtue, therefore. But when we were hungry, thirsty, sick, frightened, with our deaths shouting at us, in the heart of horror, you were still as unfailingly courteous as a gentleman at ease before his own hearth.
Lois McMaster
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
William James
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Men always say, "Let's see what you can do." If we always talk and never work we will not accomplish anything.
Belva Lockwood
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If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
Thomas More
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There is one further distinguishing characteristic of man which is very specific indeed and about which there can be no dispute, and that is the faculty of self-improvement - a faculty which, with the help of circumstance, progressively develops all our other faculties.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Did we believe a final Reckoning and Judgment; or did we think enough of what we do believe, we would allow more Love in Religion than we do; since Religion it self is nothing else but Love to God and Man. Love is indeed Heaven upon Earth; since Heaven above would not be Heaven without it: For where there is not Love; there is Fear: But perfect Love casts out Fear. Love is above all; and when it prevails in us all, we shall all be Lovely, and in Love with God and one with another.
William Penn
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When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his own relations.
William Makepeace Thackeray
