Quotes about men
men hair long
That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem. Gilbert K. Chesterton
men devil satan
I am more than a devil; I am a man. I can do the one thing which Satan himself cannot do— I can die.
men holy-places morality
Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, "I will not hit you if you do not hit me"; there is no trace of such a transaction. There IS a trace of both men having said, "We must not hit each other in the holy place.
men world ifs
if a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small.
men rights divine-right
The sceptic ultimately undermines democracy (1) because he can see no significance in death and such things of a literal equality; (2) because he introduces different first principles, making debate impossible: and debate is the life of democracy; (3) because the fading of the images of sacred persons leaves a man too prone to be a respecter of earthly persons; (4) because there will be more, not less, respect for human rights if they can be treated as divine rights.
men secret sublime
All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
men animal broken
We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals; following the rugged respectability of the tribe or type.
men doe contrary
The woman does not work because the man tells her to work and she obeys. On the contrary, the woman works because she has told the man to work and he hasn’t obeyed.
men thinking tea
At any innocent tea-table we may easily hear a man say, "Life is not worth living." We regard it as we regard the statement that it is a fine day; nobody thinks that it can possibly have any serious effect on the man or on the world. And yet if that utterance were really believed, the world would stand on its head.
men mercy paradox
...the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.
men one-day strange
I don't deny," he said, "that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
men evil champion
Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
men order voice
From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: When nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, 'Arise, ye more than dead!' Then cold, and hot, and moist, and dry, In order to their stations leap, And Music's power obey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man. John Dryden
men omnipotence bears
For granting we have sinned, and that the offence Of man is made against Omnipotence, Some price that bears proportion must be paid, And infinite with infinite be weighed.
men virtue crime
Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
men anxious-thoughts worry
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
men thinking light
Let those find fault whose wit's so very small, They've need to show that they can think at all; Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below. Fops may have leave to level all they can; As pigmies would be glad to lop a man. Half-wits are fleas; so little and so light, We scarce could know they live, but that they bite.
men good-man want
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
men afterlife burden
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
men thinking wish
I strongly wish for what I faintly hope; like the daydreams of melancholy men, I think and think in things impossible, yet love to wander in that golden maze.
men wind water
A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
men thinking blood
The unhappy man, who once has trail'd a pen, Lives not to please himself, but other men; Is always drudging, wastes his life and blood, Yet only eats and drinks what you think good.
men noses knaves
How easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily! But how hard to make a man appear a fool, a blockhead, or a knave, without using any of those opprobrious terms! Tosparethegrossness ofthenames, and to dothe thing yet moreseverely, isto drawa full face, and tomake the nose and cheeks stand out, and yet not to employ any depth of shadowing.
men heaven usury
Pleasure never comes sincere to man; but lent by heaven upon hard usury.
men heaven lucky
Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
men levels needs
For danger levels man and brute And all are fellows in their need.
men office proud
Fortune, that with malicious joyDoes man her slave oppress,Proud of her office to destroy,Is seldom pleasd to bless.
men brave quarrels
A brave man scorns to quarrel once a day; Like Hectors in at every petty fray.
men secret secrecy
He who trusts a secret to his servant makes his own man his master.
men rights self
God has endowed man with inalienable rights, among which are self-government, reason, and conscience. Man is properly self-governed only when he is guided rightly and governed by his Maker, divine Truth and Love.
men bravery honor
The brave man seeks not popular applause, Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause; Unsham'd, though foil'd, he does the best he can, Force is of brutes, but honor is of man.
men atheism patient
Beware of the fury of the patient man.
men life-and-death tales
Dead men tell no tales.