Quotes on Men

For if all things were equally in all men, nothing would be prized.

The best and most important part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.

The proper man understands equity, the small man profits.

In any man who dies there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them.

It is a solemn thought: dead, the noblest man's meat is inferior to pork.

A man dies ... only a few circles in the water prove that he was ever there. And even they quickly disappear. And when they're gone, he's forgotten, without a trace, as if he'd never even existed. And that's all.

The very purpose of Christ's coming into the world was that He might offer up His life as a sacrifice for the sins of men. He came to die. This is the heart of Christmas.

Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused - in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened - by the recurrence of Christmas.

Men make history, not the other way around.

Advertising nourishes the consuming power of men.

For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.

We can't reach old age by another man's road.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.

A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.

Symmetry, as wide or as narrow as you may define its meaning, is one idea by which man through the ages has tried to comprehend and create order, beauty and perfection.

If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands.

I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.

There is in every child a painstaking teacher so skillful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of the world. The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one teaches them anything.

A poor man is not the one without a cent. A poor man is the one without a dream.

Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.