Quotes on Men

After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the madness of creation, unbearable solitude and the exhausting crowd, rejection and consent.

A woman is a mystery to guide a wise and open man.

War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.

It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.

The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.

Be a good man to Allah and a bad man to yourself (desires); and be one of the commoners among the people

Far off, men swell, bully, and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are feeble folk.

Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it's some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don't know nothin' but what we see.

You'se something tuh make uh man forgit to git old and forgit tuh die.

Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences.

But the fact of it was that I liked it out there, a ruin devoid of human vanities, clean of human illusions, an empty place reclaimed by the weather where a woman plays an organ to stop the wind's whining and an old man plays ball with a dog named Duke. I could tell you that I came back because I had promises to keep, but maybe it was because nobody asked me to stay.

My idea of man's chief end was to enrich the world with things of beauty, and have a fairly good time myself while doing so.

No man is above the law, and no man is below it.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

I was made, by the law, a criminal, not because of what I had done, but because of what I stood for, because of what I thought, because of my conscience... If I had my time over I would do the same again. So would any man who dares call himself a man.

The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies.

None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.

The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.

The first thing which will be judged among a man's deeds on the Day of Resurrection is the Prayer. If this is in good order then he will succeed and prosper but if it is defective then he will fail and will be a loser.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.