Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Ward Beecher

A man has no more religion than he acts out in his life.

Henry Ward Beecher

Socially we are woven into the fabric of society, where every man is like one thread in a piece of cloth. No single thread has a right to say, "I will stay here no longer," and draw out. No man has a right to make a hole in the well-woven fabric of society.

Henry Ward Beecher

Religion is only another word for the right use of a man's whole self, instead of a wrong use of himself.

Henry Ward Beecher

To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.

Henry Ward Beecher

There are materials enough in every man's mind to make a hell there.

Henry Ward Beecher

He that would look with contempt on the pursuits of the farmer, is not worthy the name of a man.

Henry Ward Beecher

Men do not avail themselves of the riches of God's grace. They love to nurse their cares, and seem as uneasy without some fret as an old friar would be without his hair girdle. They are commanded to cast their cares upon the Lord, but even when they attempt it, they do not fail to catch them up again, and think it meritorious to walk burdened.

Henry Ward Beecher

It takes a man to make a devil.

Henry Ward Beecher

Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement.

Henry Ward Beecher

No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.

Henry Ward Beecher

John Wesley quaintly observed that the road to heaven is a narrow path, not intended for wheels, and that to ride in a coach here and to go to heaven hereafter, was a happiness too much for man.

Henry Knox

For God's sake, take care of your men. If they fire, they die!

Henry L. Stimson

The President so far has struck me as a man who is trying hard to keep his balance. He certainly has been very receptive to all my efforts in these directions.

Henry L. Stimson

But I think the bomb instead constitutes merely a first step in a new control by man over the forces of nature too revolutionary and dangerous to fit into old concepts.

Henry James

You seemed to me to be soaring far up in the blue - to be sailing in the bright light, over the heads of men. Suddenly some one tosses up a faded rosebud - a missile that should never have reached you - and down you drop to the ground.

Henry James

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

Henry James

The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

Henry James

God's creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.

Henry James

The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.

Henry James

Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.

Henry F. Ashurst

No man is fit to be a Senator...unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle.

Henry Charles Carey

Man, the molecule of society, is the subject of social science.

Henry Charles Carey

By adopting the 'free trade,' or British, system, we place ourselves side by side with the men who have ruined Ireland and India, and are now poisoning and enslaving the Chinese people.

Henry Clay

A man must be a born fool who voluntarily engages in controversy with Mr. Adams on a question of fact. I doubt whether he was ever mistaken in his life.

Henry Fielding

A good man therefore is a standing lesson to us all.

Henry Fielding

Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he has injured you

Henry Fielding

Considering the unforeseen events of this world, we should be taught that no human condition should inspire men with absolute despair.

Henry Fielding

I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.

Henry Fielding

A tender-hearted and compassionate disposition, which inclines men to pity and feel the misfortunes of others, and which is, even for its own sake, incapable of involving any man in ruin and misery, is of all tempers of mind the most amiable; and though it seldom receives much honor, is worthy of the highest.

Henry Fielding

Clergy are men as well as other folks.

Henry Fielding

A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.

Henry Fielding

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Henry Fielding

There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself.