Quotes on Men

For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in the soul, but it is not possible to uproot it

The average politician goes through a sentence like a man exploring a disused mine shaft-blind, groping, timorous and in imminent danger of cracking his shins on a subordinate clause or a nasty bit of subjunctive.

Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language

Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.

I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it

A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: "There is no indispensable man"

The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room.

Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.

To no man make yourself a boon companion: Your joy will be less but less will be your grief

Only when man succeeds in developing his reason and love further than he has done so far, only when he can build a world based on human solidarity and justice, only when he can feel rooted in the experience of universal brotherliness, will he have tr

Poverty, Poetry, and new Titles of Honor, make Men ridiculous

God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification

I am not an economist. I am an honest man!

When a man marries a widow his jealousies revert to the past: no man is as good as his wife says her first husband was

A man cannot speak but he judges himself

A man may have no bad habits and have worse

There is a moral law in this world which has its application both to individuals and organized bodies of men. You cannot go on violating these laws in the name of your nation, yet enjoy their advantage as individuals. We may forget truth for our conv

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

If a man who has committed many a misdemeanor does not repent and cleanse his heart of the evil, retribution will come upon his person as sure as the streams run into the ocean which becomes ever deeper and wider. If a man who has committed a misdemeanor come to the knowledge of it, reform himself, and practise goodness, the force of retribution will gradually exhaust itself as a disease gradually loses its baneful influence when the patient perspires.

A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind.

A republican government in a hundred points is weaker than an autocratic government; but in this one point it is the strongest that ever existed — it has educated a race of men that are men.