Quotes on Men

Yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to remake it in the likeness of the former world they knew. Youth could win, but had not learned to keep: and was pitiably weak against age. We stammered that we had worked for a new heaven and a new earth, and they thanked us kindly and made their peace.

Authentic men aren't afraid to show affection, release their feelings, hug their children, cry when they're sad, admit it when they're wrong, and ask for help when they need it.

Women's chains have been forged by men, not by anatomy.

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had.

Words There is no good father, that's the rule. Don't lay the blame on men but on the bond of paternity, which is rotten. To beget children, nothing better; to have them, what iniquity!

Men who can both be right and sit tight are uncommon. I found it one of the hardest things to learn. But it is only after a stock operator has firmly grasped this that he can make big money.

A man must believe in himself and his judgement if he expects to make a living at this game. That is why I don't believe in tips."

The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.

The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.

Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.

At the beginning of their careers many writers have a need to overwrite. They choose carefully turned-out phrases; they want to impress their readers with their large vocabularies. By the excesses of their language, these young men and women try to hide their sense of inexperience. With maturity the writer becomes more secure in his ideas. He finds his real tone and develops a simple and effective style.

As long as civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick; there will be bitterness in our laughter, and our wine will burn our mouth. Only that good profits which we can taste with all doors open, and which serves all men.

I am aware that no man is a villain in his own eyes.

I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.

A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings.

We ought not to schismatize on either men or measures. Principles alone can justify that.

With the same honest views, the most honest men often form different conclusions.

If virtuous, the government need not fear the fair operation of attack and defense. Nature has given to man no other means of sifting the truth, either in religion, law, or politics.

O heaven! were man, But constant, he were perfect.

Let every man shovel out his own snow and the whole city will be passable.