Quotes on Men

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down... Why do we laugh? Because it is a grave religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

We cannot fight for love, as men may do; we shou'd be woo'd, and were not made to woo

Perhaps a man may commit suicide in self-defense.

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

He had never seen a woman doctor before, and his whole conservative soul rose up in revolt at the idea. He could not recall any biblical injunction that the man should remain ever the doctor and the woman the nurse, and yet he felt as if a blasphemy had been committed.

Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.

For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.

"None is good, save One, that is, God", as the Lord Jesus bath said. The rest are only tools in His hands. "Gloria in Excelsis", "Glory unto God in the highest", and unto men that deserve, but not to such an undeserving one like me. Here "the servant is not worthy of the hire"; and a Fakir, especially, has no right to any praise whatsoever, for would you praise your servant for simply doing his duty?

Jesus Christ was God - the Personal God become man. He has manifested Himself many times in different forms and these alone are what you can worship. God in His absolute nature is not to be worshipped. Worshipping such God would be nonsense. We have to worship Jesus Christ, the human manifestation, as God. You cannot worship anything higher than the manifestation of God. The sooner you give up the worship of God separate from Christ, the better for you.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

Prayer and praise are the oars by which a man may row his boat into the deep waters of the knowledge of Christ.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values. God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.

No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.