Quotes about men
men ears study
The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the street, on the roads, and in the markets instructs the ear of him who studies man more fully than a thousand rules ostentatiously displayed. Johann Kaspar Lavater
men forever invisible
Man is forever the same; the same under every form, in all situations and relations that admit of free and unrestrained exertion. The same regard which you have for yourself, you have for others, for nature, for the invisible ... which you call God.
men assuming language
Whenever a man undergoes a considerable change, in consequence of being observed by others, whenever he assumes another gait, another language, than what he had before he thought himself observed, be advised to guard yourself against him.
men hatred hatred-and-love
As man's love or hatred, so he. Love and hatred exist only personified.
men done fellow-man
Have I done aught of value to my fellow-men? Then have I done much for myself.
men sin minutes
Every man has his devilish minutes.
men people answers
He who sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers and ceases when he has no more to say is in possession of some of the best requisites of man
men interest
As the interest of man, so his God; as his God, so he.
men religion physicians
Man without religion is a diseased creature, who would persuade himself he is well and needs not a physician; but woman without religion is raging and monstrous.
men invisible relation
What knowledge is there of which man is capable that is not founded on the exterior,--the relation that exists between visible and invisible, the perceptible and the imperceptible?
men no-friends depends
You can depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself.
men expression want
Learn the value of a man's words and expressions, and you know him. Each man has a measure of his own for everything; this he offers you inadvertently in his words. He who has a superlative for everything wants a measure for the great or small.
men ideas desire
Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it.
men no-friends dependence-on-others
Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others.
men enemy good-man
You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.
men thinking degrees
It is natural to man to regard himself as the object of the creation, and to think of all things in relation to himself, and the degree in which they can serve and be useful to him. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
men littles matter
It matters little whether a man be mathematically or philologically or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated.
men conversation dictionary
Reasonable men are the best dictionaries of conversation.
men roots long
Man cannot persist long in a conscious state, he must throw himself back into the unconscious, for his root lives there.
men errors amiable
A man's errors are what make him amiable.
men errors rational
There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational.
men thinking he-man
The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks
men winning want
A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others
men useless handicapped
All professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things which are useless.
men impossible please
He is a man whom it is impossible to please, because he is never pleased with himself.
men strive restlessness
Man's restlessness makes him strive.
men revealing mankind
Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men.
men noble-man gentle
A noble man is led by woman's gentle words.
men causes finals
It is natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation.
men peers noble
There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with deaf ears, He acts as though the others were his peers.
men faults lovable
A man's foibles are what makes him lovable.
men strive
Man must strive, and striving he must err.
men want way
If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be, you do.