Quotes on Men

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate as a poison to the soul, however pleasant and salutary it may appear to be to the body.

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence. Somebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate... I had a best friend killed, plenty other friends killed. I been through it. I seen it.

How is it that we do not die of love in seeing that God Himself could do no more than shed His divine blood for us drop by drop? When as man He was preparing for death, He made Himself our food in order to give us life. God becomes food, bread for his creatures. Is this not enough to make us die of love?

Give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward may be one.

The small man builds cages for everyone he knows While the sage, who has to duck his head when the moon is low, Keeps dropping keys all night long For the beautiful rowdy prisoners.

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

Man never legislates,but destinies and accidents,happening in all sorts of ways,legislate in all sorts of ways.

That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless

There is an ancient saying, famous among men, that thou shouldst not judge fully of a man's life before he dieth, whether it should be called blest or wretched.

Men who are addicted to the passions are like the torch-carrier running against the wind; his hands are sure to be burned.