Quotes on Men

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.

God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among the nations of the Earth.

Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express everything that man can, wants to, and has to express. I think God built this into man. Art along with science is the highest gift God has given him.

I want every version of a woman and a man to be possible. I want women and men to be able to be full-time parents or full-time working people or any combination of the two.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.

Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.

If we are devoted to the cause of humanity, we shall soon be crushed and broken-hearted, for we shall often meet with more ingratitude from men than we would from a dog; but if our motive is love to God, no ingratitude can hinder us from serving our fellow men.

The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time. God became Man for no other purpose.

The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.