Quotes on Men

they say in the old tales that when a man and woman exchange looks the way we did, their spirits mingle. their gaze is a rope of gold binding each other. even if they never meet again, they carry a little of the other with them always. they can never forget, and they can never be wholly happy again

The animal should not be measured by man. In a world older than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the sense we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear.

The primitive magician, the medicine man or shaman is not only a sick man, he is above all, a sick man who has been cured, who has succeeded in curing himself.

Last night I thought about all the kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books. A man had to think them up. A man had to take a long time to put them down on paper. And I'd never even thought that thought before...It took some man a lifetime maybe to put some of his thoughts down, looking around at the world and life, and then I come along in two minutes and boom! it's all over.

The world I live in is loathsome to me, but I feel one with the men who suffer in it

But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man's mercury has got down to a certain point there comes a revulsion, and he rallies. Hope springs up, and cheerfulness along with it, and then he is in good shape to do something for himself, if anything can be done.

Man is vile, and man makes nothing worth making, knows nothing worth knowing.

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

To write tragedy, a man must feel tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.

All men have the stars," he answered, "but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travellers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems. For my businessman they were wealth. But all the stars are silent. You--you alone--will have the stars as no one else has them--

For, to conceited men, all other men are admirers.

A man is not measured by how much he can take and stand but by how fast he regains once fallen.

The fish is my friend too...I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky; he thought

Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause. He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.

He said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god.

I wonder why it is the man who pleads for mercy never gives it.

He was a graduate of West Point, which is military academy that turns young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war.

Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

No man becomes rich unless he enriches others.

What man of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, that he has lost something infinite?

But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.