Quotes on Men

No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth.

Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy the interposition of a great deity. More humble and I believe true to consider him created from animals.

Men create the gods after their own images.

The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.

Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!

Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions.

The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.

Tobacco smoke is the one element in which, by our European manners, men can sit silent together without embarrassment, and where no man is bound to speak one word more than he has actually and veritably got to say. Nay, rather every man is admonished and enjoined by the laws of honor, and even of personal ease, to stop short of that point; and at all events to hold his peace and take to his pipe again the instant he has spoken his meaning, if he chance to have any.

I have seen many a man turn his gold into smoke, but you are the first who has turned smoke into gold.

To instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests and duties, as men and citizens...this brings us to the point at which are to commence the higher branches of education . . . . To develop the reasoning faculties of our youth, enlarge their minds, cultivate their morals, and instill into them the precepts of virtue and order.

The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these but with the people themselves, nor can they be safe with them without information. Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe.

Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.

So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.

Not all of life's roads are set fast, for a man may do this or a man may do that and not even the gods know the mind of a man.

A man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales resistance.

A man doesn't learn to understand anything unless he loves it.

The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries.

There is a history in all men's lives.

If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of it.

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.