Quotes about men
men might boyhood
Men spoke much in my boyhood about restricted or ruined men of genius: and it was common to say that many a man was a Great Might-Have-Been. To me it's a more solid and startling fact that any man in the street is a Great Might-Not-Have-Been. Gilbert K. Chesterton
men reform doe
A modern man may disapprove of some of his sweeping reforms, and approve others; but finds it difficult not to admire even where he does not approve.
men age littles
We have passed the age of the demagogue, the man who has little to say and says it loud. We have come to the age of the mystagogue or don, the man who has nothing to say, but says it softly and impressively in an indistinct whisper.
men games dignity
Humour is meant, in a literal sense, to make game of man; that is, to dethrone him from his official dignity and hunt him like game.
men people house
The best way that a man could test his readiness to encounter the common variety of mankind would be to climb down a chimney into any house at random, and get on as well as possible with the people inside. And that is essentially what each one of us did on the day that he was born.
men realizing goodness
Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of existence, but about the slowness of men in realizing its goodness.
men serious merry
No man can be merry unless he is serious.
men great-men knows
A great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it.
men doubt dogma
Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion.
men broken done
Obviously if any actions, even a lunatic's, can be causeless, determinism is done for. If the chain of causation can be broken for a madman, it can be broken for a man.
men mythology myth
He who has no sympathy with myths has no sympathy with men
men becoming mass
The Mass is not only about God becoming man, it is about Man becoming more himself.
men boys never-quit
A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy.
men imagination quality
The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery.
men criticism green
A great deal of contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying, 'Of course I do not like green cheese. I am very fond of brown sherry.
men long doe
It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands that he does not understand it.
men demand potatoes
For they (capitalists) hold as their chief heresy, in a coarser form, the fundamental falsehood that things are not made to be used but made to be sold. All the collapse of their commercial system in their own time has been due to that fallacy of forcing things on a market where there was no market; of continually increasing the power of supply without increasing the power of demand; of briefly, of always considering the man who sells the potato and never considering the man who eats it.
men animal wild-animal
We talk of wild animals, but the wildest animal is man.
men orthodoxy lost-everything
The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason...
men community world
The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world... The reason is obvious. In a large community we can choose our companions. In a small community our companions are chosen for us.
men devil saint
The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman.
men world lasts
If the world becomes pagan and perishes, the last man left alive would do well to quote the Iliad and die.
men strange assumption
Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. Unless a man starts on the strange assumption that he has never existed before, it is quite certain that he will never exist afterwards.
men were-meant-to-be doubtful
A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed.
men civilization justice
Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men. When it wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity.
men talking civilization
The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free man, and is always talking about what he may do.
men normal ordinary
The primary paradox of Christianity is that the ordinary condition of man is not his sane or sensible condition; that the normal itself is an abnormality.
men tea finals
I would look at the first chapter of any new novel as a final test of its merits. If there was a murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I read the story. If there was no murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I dismissed the story as tea-table twaddle, which it often really was.
men errors passing
Teach to the young, men's enduring truths, and let the learned amuse themselves with their passing errors.
men long heaven
As long as the vision of heaven is always changing, the vision of earth will be exactly the same. No ideal will remain long enough to be realized, or even partly realized. The modern young man will never change his environment; for he will always change his mind.
men doors knocking
Every time a man knocks on a brothel door, he is really knocking for God
men ordinary knows
All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
men may said
Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being.