Men Quotes
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Bid the dishonest man mend himself; if he mend, he is no longer dishonest.
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No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
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There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.
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One must choose between making a man or a citizen, for one cannot make both at the same time.
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Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.
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Who has not remarked the readiness with which the closest of friends and honestest of men suspect and accuse each other of cheating when they fall out on money matters? Everybody does it. Everybody is right, I suppose, and the world is a rogue.
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It's here, where absolute evil was perpetrated, that the will must resurface for a fraternal world, a world based on respect of man and his dignity.
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There's always been a man telling me what to do.
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A passion-driven exultant man sings out Sentences that he has never thought.
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I would never want to pass a law limiting freedom of speech, but that doesn't mean we have to condone statements that undermine basic national unity and respect. Imagine being asked to defend a country where some citizens say the man in the White House isn't their president. Or a major presidential contender accuses the commander in chief of not even being a U.S. citizen. Those kinds of statements erode trust in our democracy, and it's up to both parties to publicly reject them. We have to restore confidence that we are a nation that loves and believes in itself.
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Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.
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Who never walks save where he sees men's tracks makes no discoveries.
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I'm always surprised that people make such a fuss about Italian tailoring and French design houses. I think traditional British tailoring for men is so good. Everything's the right cut, the fabrics are good.
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Your women of honor, as you call 'em , are only chary of their reputations, not their persons, and 'tis scandal they would avoid, not men.
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This I hold to be the chief office of history, to rescue virtuous actions from the oblivion to which a want of records would consign them, and that men should feel a dread of being considered infamous in the opinions of posterity, from their depraved expressions and base actions.
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If you want a war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men are ever subject, because doctrines get inside a man's reason and betray him against himself. Civilized men have done their fiercest fighting for doctrines.
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It is only during the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality.
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The aboriginal peoples of Australia illustrate the conflict between technology and the natural world succinctly, by asking, 'What will you do when the clever men destroy your water?' That, in truth, is what the world is coming to.
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Nature, as man has always known it, he knows no more. Since he has learned to esteem signs above symbols, to suppress his emotional reactions in favor of practical ones and make use of nature instead of holding so much of it sacred, he has altered the face, if not the heart, of reality.
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It looks like a one man show here, although there are two men involved.
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I can never understand why I should eat at one or sleep at eleven, if it is, as it often is, my one and my eleven and nobody else's. For, as between the clock and me alone, one and eleven and all other o'clocks are mine and I am not theirs. But I have known men and women living in hotels who would interrupt a sunset to go to dine, or wave away the stars in their courses to go to sleep, merely because the hour had struck.
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Beaten paths are for beaten men.
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Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses
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To sing the same tune, as the saying is, is in everything cloying and offensive; but men are generally pleased with variety.
