Quotes about men
men bravery chance
The bravest men are subject most to chance. John Dryden
men light heaven
Virtue without success is a fair picture shown by an ill light; but lucky men are favorites of heaven; all own the chief, when fortune owns the cause.
men world neighbor
It's a hard world, neighbors, if a man's oath must be his master.
men understanding firsts
They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
men political principles
I'm many things, most of 'em bad. But a man of political principles? No. John Marston
men dies
We die alone, but we live among men.
men born
Men are born, and then they're formed.
men chance every-man
Every man has a right to change, a chance of forgiveness.
men thinking weak-man
I do know that the world knows or thinks that I have money and lots of it. They perceive me as an old weak man and an easy target. John McAfee
men trials opinion
The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.
men law may
The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him. John Marshall
men law united-states
The government of the United States has been emphatically termed a government of laws, and not of men. It will certainly cease to deserve this high appellation, if the laws furnish no remedy for the violation of a vested legal right.
men soul corn
The corn that makes the holy bread By which the soul of man is fed, The holy bread, the food unpriced, Thy everlasting mercy, Christ. John Masefield
men journey leading-me
Most roads lead men homewards, My road leads me forth
men community delight
Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.
men may want
Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.
men sailing ships
Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down.
men imagination mind
Man's body is faulty, his mind untrustworthy, but his imagination has made him remarkable.
men order world
The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world. John Maynard Keynes
men august history
What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man was that age which came to an end in August 1914.
men economics dies
Men will not always die quietly.
men democracy balance
It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.
men liberty saving
Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.
men cities long
How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult?
men practice long
A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional and orthodox way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him. It is necessarily part of the business of a banker to maintain appearances, and to confess a conventional respectability, which is more than human. Life-long practices of this kind make them the most romantic and the least realistic of men.
men individual-happiness iron
In a regime of Free Trade and free economic intercourse it would be of little consequence that iron lay on one side of a political frontier, and labor, coal, and blast furnaces on the other. But as it is, men have devised ways to impoverish themselves and one another; and prefer collective animosities to individual happiness.
men long suffering
Economic privation proceeds by easy stages, and so long as men suffer it patiently the outside world cares little.
men careers simplicity
I have a confession: I'm not a man of simplicity. I spent my entire early career making complex stuff. Lots of complex stuff. John Maeda
men bees
A comely olde man as busie as a bee. John Lyly
men mold old-man
All men [are] of one metal, but not in one mold.
men house quality
I probably have more female friends than any man I've ever met. What I like about them is that almost always they're generally mentally tougher, and they're better listeners, and they're more capable of surviving things. And most of the women that I like have a haunted quality - they're sort of like women who live in a haunted house all by themselves. John Malkovich
men generations broadway
I know, for me, you know, my generation - I never would have known anything about Robert Preston's performance in 'The Music Man' if there hadn't been a film where he played the part. I just heard how great he was on Broadway way before my time. John Lloyd Young
men class america
To the Calvinists, more than to any other class of men, the political liberties of Holland, England, and America are due. John Lothrop Motley