Quotes on Men

A young man should ask himself not if it is his duty to go to the heathen, but if he may dare stay at home. The command is so plain: “Go.”

To a mankind that recognizes the equality of man everywhere, every war becomes a civil war.

If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability.

Man has always been half-monster, half-dreamer.

They love least that let men know their loves.

If Heaven and Earth are unable to persist, how could man?

But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.

As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends.

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

We can never replace a friend. When a man is fortunate enough to have several, he finds they are all different. No one has a double in friendship.

English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.

A man who does not ask to much become the promise of his land. His marriage married to his place, he waits and does not stray.

Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.

The best stock a man can invest in, is the stock of a farm; the best shares are plow shares; and the best banks are the fertile banks of a rural stream; the more these are broken the better dividends they pay.

At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.

There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and downright ignorance. The shape of the world today does not permit us the luxury of soft mindedness. A nation or a civilization that continues to produce soft minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.

Each man must learn his own ideal and try to accomplish it: that is a surer way of progress than to take the ideas of another.

Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

To the men of this world, to the animal strength and spirits, to the men of practical power, whilst immersed in it, the man of ideas appears out of his reason. They alone gave reason.

Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.

As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other.