Quotes on Men

If a man owns land,_x000D_ the land owns him.

Every man alone is sincere._x000D_ At the entrance of a second person,_x000D_ hypocrisy begins._x000D_ We parry and fend the approach_x000D_ of our fellow-man by compliments,_x000D_ by gossip, by amusements, by affairs._x000D_ We cover up our thought from him_x000D_ under a hundred folds.

There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.

There is no better test of a man's work than time, which also reveals the thoughts which lay hidden in his breast.

Always be looking for that which you do well and that which you love doing, and when you find those two things together — man, you got it.

Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse!

God is that infinite All of which man knows himself to be a finite part.

Beauty is that Medusa's head which men go armed to seek and sever, and dead will starve and sting forever.

Truly as the sun can rot or mend, love can make one bestial or make a beast a man.

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

Government is the people's business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid.

The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become.

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.

There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

Silence is an answer to a wise man.

It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man

I have gone through the most terrible affair that could possibly happen; only imagine, my shadow has gone mad; I suppose such a poor, shallow brain, could not bear much; he fancies that he has become a real man, and that I am his shadow.

It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul.

Wisdom comes through suffering._x000D_ Trouble, with its memories of pain,_x000D_ Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep,_x000D_ So men against their will_x000D_ Learn to practice moderation._x000D_ Favours come to us from gods.