Quotes on Men

A fool learns nothing from a wise man; but a wise man learns from a fool.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

Oh, if only you knew yourselves! You are souls; you are Gods. If ever I feel like blaspheming, it is when I call you man.

Man never dies, nor is he ever born; bodies die, but he never dies.

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

To all the world he was the man of violence, half animal and half demon; but to her he always remained the little wilful boy of her own girlhood, the child who had clung to her hand. Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.

A kingdom man is the kind of man that when his feet hit the floor each morning the devil says, "Oh crap, he's up!"

There are at the present moment many colored men in the Confederate army doing duty not only as cooks, servants and laborers , but as real soldiers, having muskets on their shoulders, and bullets in their pockets, ready to shoot down loyal troops, and do all that soldiers may to destroy the Federal Government and build up that of the traitors and rebels.

...there are at the present moment many colored men in the Confederate Army...as real soldiers, having muskets on their shoulders, and bullets in their pockets, ready to shoot down loyal troops, and do all that soldiers may do to destroy the Federal government...There were such soldiers at Manassas and they are probably there still.

The one thing about being a dude and writing from a female perspective is that the baseline is, you suck. The baseline is it takes so long for you to work those atrophied muscles - for you to get on parity with what women's representations of men are.

Non-Christians seem to think that the Incarnation implies some particular merit or excellence in humanity. But of course it implies just the reverse: a particular demerit and depravity. No creature that deserved Redemption would need to be redeemed. They that are whole need not the physician. Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.

Sing us a song you're the piano man._x000D_ _x000D_ Sing us a song tonight._x000D_ _x000D_ Cause we're all in the mood for a melody,_x000D_ _x000D_ And you've got us feeling all right.

More will be accomplished, and better, and with more ease, if every man does what he is best fitted to do, and nothing else.

It is not often that any man can have so much knowledge of another, as is necessary to make instruction useful.

The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.

Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.

Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.