Quotes on Men

The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth.

Texas is a fine place for men and dogs, but hell on women and horses.

I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes. They have in themselves what they value in their horses, mettle and bottom.

The wise man looks back into the past, and does not grieve over what is far off, nor rejoice over what is near; for he knows that time is without end.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary

Happy is the man who knows or even the man who remembers those silent vigils where silence itself was the sign of the communion of souls!

Some men, at the approach of a dispute, neigh like horses.

Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

You traverse the world in search of happiness which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting on her own in a small café in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything.

Facts are ventriloquist’s dummies. Sitting on a wise man’s knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.

With the inevitability of a tongue returning to probe a painful tooth, we come back and back and back again to our fears, sitting to talk them over with the eagerness of a hungry man before a full and steaming plate.

I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.

Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.

Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. If anyone finds out he'll become happy at once.

Up the road, in his shack, the old man was sleeping again. He was still sleeping on his face and the boy was sitting by him watching him. The old man was dreaming about the lions.

Progress in every age results only from the fact that there are some men and women who refuse to believe that what they know to be right cannot be done.

There ought to be a man with a hammer behind the door of every happy man.

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.