Quotes on Men

Every man looks out for himself, and he has the happiest life who manages to hoodwink himself best of all.

Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion.

Why must women stay quietly? Why must we be little moons, each of us stuck in our little orbit, revolving around a planet that is some man? Why can't we be other planets? Why must we be moons?

I am not a religious man. I have not attended a service for many years. But I do believe in God. My own practice of religion, you could say, it a nonpractice. I personally feel that it's just as worthy on a weekend to rake the lawns of an elderly neighbor or to climb a mountain and marvel at the beauty of this land we live in as it is to sing hosannas or go to Mass. In other words, I think every many finds his own church- and not all of them have four walls - Judge Haig (Page 399)

Give a man a fish, feed home for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed for a lifetime.

The earth does not need new continents, but new men.

An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

No man was ever great by imitation.

The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.