Quotes on Men

In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.

The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality, a fanatical monomaniac.

A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals.

Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men.

Now there's a man with an open mind - you can feel the breeze from here!

it is clearly evident that our path travels through a valley of teas well known to all farm workers, because in all valleys the way of the farm worker has bene one of sacrifice for generations. Our sweat and our blood have fallen on this land to make other men rich. This Pilgrimage is a witness to the suffering we have seen for generations.

We are certain God's will is that all men share in the good things this earth produces.

That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will.

Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty, how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes.

Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.

Old custom is hard to break and scarce any man will be led otherwise than seemeth good unto himself.

No man can tell another his faults so as to benefit him, unless he loves him.

A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces.

Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice Hath often stilled my brawling discontent.

The strong man wants to be allowed to DO; the little man wants to stop him.

The apparel oft proclaims the man.

The soul of this man is his clothes.

He who is by nature not his own but another's man is by nature a slave.

The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.

Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste.

So much are our minds influenced by the accidents of our bodies, that every man is more the man of the day than a regular and consequential character.