Quotes about men
men air water
Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water. Dante Alighieri
men relaxation every-man
I am searching for that which every man seeks-peace and rest.
men giving good-man
I affirm that gain is precisely that which comes oftener to the bad man than to the good; for illegitimate gains never come to the good at all, because they reject them. And lawful gains rarely come to the good, because, since much anxious care is needful thereto, and the anxious care of the good man is directed to weightier matters, rarely does the good man give sufficient attention thereto. Wherefore it is clear that in every way the advent of these riches is iniquitous.
men way taste
You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.
men corn fields
In judgement be ye not too confident, Even as a man who will appraise his corn When standing in a field, ere it is ripe.
men hue fame
A man's renown is like the hue of grass, Which comes and goes.
men wings anxiety
O foolish anxiety of wretched man, how inconclusive are the arguments which make thee beat thy wings below!
men feet numbers
O how far remov'd, Predestination! is thy foot from such As see not the First Cause entire: and ye, O mortal men! be wary how ye judge: For we, who see the Maker, know not yet The number of the chosen; and esteem Such scantiness of knowledge our delight: For all good is, in that primal good, Concentrate; and God's will and ours are one.
men charity thieves
If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity.
men desert beloved
Love, that exempts no one beloved from loving, seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly, that, as thou seest, it doth not yet desert me.
men judging judgment
O mortal men, be wary of how ye judge.
men saws coffins
Well, I guess I am about the livest dead man you ever saw; although I was once asked to accept a coffin. Dan Rice
men want delirium
If any young man wants to be a true temperance man let him go and get the delirium tremens, that'll settle it.
men enemy
A man without enemies is a dishonest man.
men poetic ecstasy
One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy. Dan Savage
men rights people
One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought.
men law politics
There's laws that we must live by, and they're not the laws of man. Dan Fogelberg
men tree needs
A man contains all that is needed to make up a tree; likewise, a tree contains all that is needed to make up a man. Thus, finally, all things meet in all things, but we need a Prometheus to distill it. Cyrano de Bergerac
men fats thin-man
Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signaling to be let out. Cyril Connolly
men years garbage-cans
When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the lightest action but by the most harmless pleasure, I feel Man to be of all living things the most biologically incompetent and ill-organized. Why has he acquired a seventy years life-span only to poison it incurably by the mere being of himself? Why has he thrown Conscience, like a dead rat, to putrefy in the well?
men perfect unions
In a perfect union the man and woman are like a strung bow. Who is to say whether the string bends the bow, or the bow tightens the string?
men rust retiring
Work is the basis of living. I'll never retire. A man'll rust out quicker than he'll wear out. Colonel Sanders
men animal suffering
Towns are suffering from all these things, we should unite until we are all satisfied, man cannot be killing each other as if we were animals, as if we had no culture; that is a lack of culture. Compay Segundo
men right-man happens
You'd be surprised how fast things happen when the right man comes along. Danielle Steel
men mobility limits
No man can take your freedom from you. They can limit your mobility, but that's about all they can do
men needs settling
I don't need a man to be happy. I had a great one , that was good enough. I don't expect to find another one like him, and why settle for anything less? I'm going ot be perfectly content alone.--Marya
men wonder obvious
All women are wonders because they reduce all men to the obvious. Daniel Mainwaring
men law trials
How cruel the Penal Laws are which exclude me from a fair trial with men whom I look upon as so much my inferiors... Daniel O'Connell
men gentleman alternatives
Gentlemen, you may soon have the alternative to live as slaves or die as free men
men hands jail
The work of democratic government is routinely concerned with matters defined as troubles. In "The Presidency and the Press" I make the point, familiar to anyone who has flown about the world much, that the best quick test of the political nature of a regime is to read the local papers on arrival. If they are filled with bad news, you have landed in a libertarian society of some sort. If, on the other hand, the press is filled with good news, it is a fair bet that the jails will be filled with good men. Daniel Patrick Moynihan
men capacity-to-love understanding
The institution of the family is decisive in determining not only if a person has the capacity to love another individual but in the larger social sense whether he is capable of loving his fellow men collectively. The whole of society rests on this foundation for stability, understanding and social peace.
men making-money rich
No man can Become Rich without enriching others. Dan Miller
men hands suits
It is not according to my mode of doing things, to bring a suit against a man that I have the power in my own hands to punish. Cornelius Vanderbilt