Quotes on Men

I know of no case where a man added to his dignity by standing on it.

All the extraordinary men I have ever known were chiefly extraordinary in their own estimation.

The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are.

Hypocrisy can plunge the mind of a man into a dark abyss, when he believes his own self-flattery instead of God's verdict.

The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor

Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved

Man is a part of the world, and his spirit is part of the spirit of the world. We are merely a peculiar mode of Being, a living atom within it, or, rather, a cell that, if sufficiently open to itself and its own mystery, can also experience the mystery, the will, the pain, and the hope of the world.

When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.

This nation was founded by men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened ... It ought to to be possible, in short, for every American to enjoy the privileges of being American without regard to his race or his color.

The desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content thenceforward with a single anchorage. The desire to build a boat is the desire of youth, unwilling yet to accept the idea of a final resting place.

Man marks the earth with ruin - his control stops with the shore.

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.

Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.

The Three Armies can be deprived of their commanding officer, but even a common man cannot be deprived of his purpose.

As you get older naked stuff [on film] gets easier. It's more to do with the role than what men in the audience think. There's a liberation about it.

When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.

As soon as a man recognizes that he has drifted into age, he gets reminiscent. He wants to talk and talk; and not about the present or the future, but about his old times. For there is where the pathos of his life lies - and the charm of it. The pathos of it is there because it was opulent with treasures that are gone, and the charm of it is in casting them up from the musty ledgers and remembering how rich and gracious they were.

If I had been helping the Almighty when he created man, I would have had him begin at the other end, and start human beings with old age. How much better to start old and have all the bitterness and blindness of age in the beginning!

Whatever a man's age, he can reduce it several years by putting a bright-colored flower in his button-hole.

How stunning are the changes which age makes in a man while he sleeps!