Quotes on Men

Like many young men in the South, he had trouble ruling out the possible. They are not like an immigrant's son in Passaic who desires to become a dentist and that is that. Southerners have trouble ruling out the possible. What happens to a... man to whom all things seem possible and every course of action open? Nothing of course.

There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.

Ye may kill for yourselves, and your mates, and your cubs as they need, and ye can; But kill not for pleasure of killing, and seven times never kill Man!

Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.

I know that she deserves the best and purest love the heart of man can offer," said Mrs. Maylie; "I know that the devotion and affection of her nature require no ordinary return, but one that shall be deep and lasting.

There are very few men-and they are the exceptions-who are able to think and feel beyond the present moment

Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure

Don't judge a man's conscience by looking at his face cause he may have a bad heart.

Advice to young writers wo want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man, write about a man.

A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.

A man who is free and unmarried, if he has some intelligence, can rise above his fortune, mingle in society and meet the best people on an equal footing. This is harder for a married man: marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

It is a sad thing when men have neither enough intelligence to speak well nor enough sense to hold their tongues; this is the root of all impertinence.

It is grievous for a man to leave behind him a shadow in his own shape.

Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.

A man must choose his own way of life, and…it is only by following out one’s own bent that there can be the really harmonious life.” [In an interview conducted by Bram Stoker]

Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for a better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities.

Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.

On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself--on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life and not of mortal danger.

A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope.

Money problems can always be solved by a man not frightened by them.

A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.