Quotes on Men

Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life.

Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.

How many times, over how many years, had he—a grown man—asked for the mercy of another chance? He was suddenly so sick of himself, so revolted, that he could have groaned aloud.

The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter — for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way. He lives and labors and hopes.

If you are one of earth’s inhabitants, how blest your father, and your gentle mother, blest all your kin. I know what happiness must send the warm tears to their eyes, each time they see their wondrous child go to the dancing! But one man’s destiny is more than blest—he who prevails, and takes you as his bride. Never have I laid eyes on equal beauty in man or woman. I am hushed indeed.

It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.

HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.

There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.

I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much.

Women may fail when there is no strength in man

The nearer a man lives to God, the more intensely has he to mourn over his own evil heart." -Charles Spurgeon

Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.

Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.

Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise.

It is not our level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes lie within our power, so that a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him.

Woman: You certainly know the way to a man's heart. Mae West: Funny, too, 'cause I don't know how to cook.

I'm starting with the man in the mirror

I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.

These are but dreaming men. Breathe, and they fade.

Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?