Quotes about men
men order law
The interest of [businessmen] is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public ... The proposal of any new law or regulation of commerce which comes from this order ... ought never to be adopted, till after having been long and carefully examined ... with the most suspicious attention. It comes from an order of men ... who have generally an interest to deceive and even oppress the public Adam Smith
men thinking two
Ask any rich man of common prudence to which of the two sorts of people he has lent the greater part of his stock, to those who, he thinks, will employ it profitably, or to those who will spend it idly, and he will laugh at you for proposing the question.
men empires immortality
But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality.
men hands numbers
Capitals are increased by parsimony, and diminished by prodigalityand misconduct. By what a frugal man annually saves he not onlyaffords maintenance to an additional number of productive hands?but?he establishes as it were a perpetual fund for the maintenance of an equal number in all times to come.
men suffering doe
It is the interest of every man to live as much at his ease as he can; and if his emoluments are to be precisely the same, whether he does or does not perform some very laborious duty, it is certainly his interest, at least as interest is vulgarly understood, either to neglect it altogether, or, if he is subject to some authority which will not suffer him to do this, to perform it in as careless and slovenly a manner as that authority will permit.
men sacred foundation
The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.
men economics live-by
Every man lives by exchanging.
men firsts steps
The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.
men envy want
Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many. The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions.
men giving desire
Men desire to have some share in the management of public affairs chiefly on account of the importance which it gives them.
men race would-be
A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him. They must even upon most occasions be somewhat more; otherwise it would be impossible for him to bring up a family, and the race of such workmen could not last beyond the first generation.
men order cases
Fear is in almost all cases a wretched instrument of government, and ought in particular never to be employed against any order of men who have the smallest pretensions to independency.
men iron next-day
Eventually I got the call for 'Iron Man,' and I read sides that had nothing to do with what I did in the movie, and I performed it once while no one was in the room - it was videotaped, and I'm sure Shane Black was watching it from his helicopter or something. And then I got a call the next day that I was going down to shoot it. Adam Pally
men needs breathe
Men need to live and breathe women. Adam Levine
men phones old-man
Old man with an old phone. That's never not funny. Adam McKay
men years envelopes
Female performers have been doing this for years - pushing the envelope about sexuality - and the minute a man does it, everybody freaks out. Adam Lambert
men singing common
Nowadays in pop, there's not a lot of men that are singing big and loud and high - it's not as common as it once was.
men people doe
Yet in truth the big question Camus asked was never the Anglo-American liberal one: How can we make the world a little bit better tomorrow? It was the grander French one: Why not kill yourself tonight? That the answers come to much the same thing in the end-easy does it; tomorrow may be a bit better than today; and, after all, you have to have a little faith in people-doesn't diminish the glamour that clings to the man who turned the question over and look at it, elegantly, upside down. Adam Gopnik
men thinking wife
Many women I know think the ideal of happiness is to be in love with a great man, or to be the wife of a great public success; to share his triumph! They forget you share the man as well! Ada Leverson
men waiting he-man
Everything comes to the man who won't wait.
men who-i-am people
It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man. Adam Baldwin
men lines want
I want to do a make-up line for men. Adam Ant
men trying pandas
Men look like pandas when they try and put make-up on.
men boys littles
I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.
men ants firsts
I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's a nuclear explosion, the ants will survive.
men fire example
God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box. Abraham Cahan
men cities retreat
To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's. Abraham Cowley
men mind quality
Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man. It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond. Abraham Joshua Heschel
men looks done
New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. ... Man's true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
men essentials reign
The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth. Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man's power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
men miracle earth
How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
men doe he-man
The man who has not suffered - what does he know anyway?
men messages messengers
Man is a messenger who forgot the message.