Quotes on Men

I used to drink, I did, I had to quit. Man, I was an embarrassing drunk. I'd get pulled over by the cops, I'd be so drunk I'd be out dancing to their lights thinking I'd made it to another club.

Shall I compare thee to a summer day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate... When in eternal lines to time thou growst So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for him who has the eyes to see them.

Conscious man, to be sure, has at all times been keenly aware that life is an adventure, that life must, forever, be wrested from death.

Never lose a holy curiosity. Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. He is considered successful in our day who gets more out of life than he puts in. But a man of value will give more than he receives.

Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed.

When a man or woman, young, or old, takes a place on the picket line for even a day or two, he will never be the same again.

No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.

Charity feeds the poor, so does pride; charity builds an hospital, so does pride. In this they differ: charity gives her glory to God; pride takes her glory from man.

Many men nourish a pride which urges them to conceal their struggles and show themselves only as conquerors.

Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself

There is a great deal of talk about loyalty from the bottom to the top. Loyalty from the top down is even more necessary and much less prevalent. One of the most frequently noted characteristics of great men who have remained great is loyalty to their subordinates.

Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.

"If a man finds it very hard to forgive injuries, let him look at a Crucifix, and think that Christ shed all His Blood for him, and not only forgave His enemies, but even prayed His Heavenly Father to forgive them also. Let him remember that when he says the Pater Noster, every day, instead of asking pardon for his sins, he is calling down vengeance on himself."

Thou knowest, winter tames man, woman, and beast.

To see a man beaten not by a better opponent but by himself is a tragedy.

The superior man is intelligently, not blindly, faithful.

... you cannot make a man clean [simply] by washing his shirt.

A man strikes you, make him bleed. He makes you bleed, you break his bones. He breaks your bones, kill him. Being hit is inevitable, strike back twice as hard.

Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven :- That is by letters written with their quills.

I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the luster out of fiction.