Men Quotes
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Most men admire Virtue who follow not her lore.
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If God were not a necessary Being of himself, he might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of men.
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The reason is that nature has so created men that they are able to desire everything but are not able to attain everything: so that the desire being always greater than the acquisition, there results discontent with the possession and little satisfaction to themselves from it. From this arises the changes in their fortunes; for as men desire, some to have more, some in fear of losing their acquisition, there ensues enmity and war, from which results the ruin of that province and the elevation of another.
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Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice Hath often stilled my brawling discontent.
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That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
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Every study of high achieving men and women proves that greatness in life is only possible when you become outstanding at your chosen field.
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A passion-driven exultant man sings out Sentences that he has never thought.
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I don't know anything about god except that it's not me. So, somewhere between that acceptance and doing my homework and being competitive and having ambition and loving my job and observing and reflecting my society, that's where I find the purpose. Because man needs purpose.
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Seems nothing draws men together like killing other men.
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Only when there is a wilderness can man harmonize his inner being with the wavelengths of the earth. When the earth, its products, its creatures, become his concern, man is caught up in a cause greater than his own life and more meaningful. Only when man loses himself in an endeavor of that magnitude does he walk and live with humanity and reverence.
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The perfect man is the true partner. Not a bed partner nor a fun partner, but a man who will shoulder burdens equally with you and possess that quality of joy.
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For my own part, I shall be glad to learn of noble men.
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I didn't confide in men. Well, I didn't confide in anyone.
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Once there was a man who was afraid of his shadow. Then he met it. Now he glows in the dark.
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We have to recognise, that the gin-palace, like many other evils, although as poisonous, is still a natural outgrowth of our social conditions. The tap-room in many cases is the poor man's only parlour. Many a man takes to beer, not from the love of beer, but from a natural craving for the light, warmth, company, and comfort which is thrown in along with the beer, and which he cannot get excepting by buying beer. Reformers will never get rid of the drink shop until they can outbid it in the subsidiary attractions which it offers to its customers.
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The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way ... an uncomfortable mind in an uncomfortable body.
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Men blaspheme what they do not know.
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If you take away scale, the nature of the story changes. I made a joke the other day: if I were to try to make 'Glory' now, rather than be about a regiment, it would be about a platoon. It would be seven men in the woods rather than all the men on the beach.
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Some girls need men to take them places. Others just click their heels, spread their own wings, and fly.
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Men and women who decide to flirt with adultery just once can become enmeshed in misery and unhappiness for themselves and their precious families.
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Men of gravity are intellectual stammerers, whose thoughts move slowly.
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Reade was an emancipating writer because he seemed to speak as man to man to resolve history into an intelligible pattern in which there was no need for miracles. Even if he was wrong, he was grown-up.
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The time has come that Christians must vote for honest men and take consistent ground in politics or the Lord will curse them. . . . Christians have been exceedingly guilty in this matter. But the time has come when they must act differently. . . . Christians seem to act as if they thought God did not see what they do in politics. But I tell you He does see it - and He will bless or curse this nation according to the course they Christians take in politics.
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I don't trust men everybody likes. Being nice isn't the same as being good.
