Quotes on Men

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and therefore the state in which one is most likely to find solid happiness.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.

All education is the art of making men ethical (sittlich), of transforming the old Adam into the new Adam.

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.

No young man ever thinks he shall die.

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.