Quotes about men
men training matter
Training the will in trivial and grave matters increases its strength and flexibility, and enables man to constantly strive and persevere. Ameen Rihani
men thinking self
Self-reliance leads to intellectual independence. Each man must think for himself, must train the mind to think, must habituate the soul to observe and analyze.
men needs moral
Knowledge is one of our direst needs. But it is insufficient on its own. If knowledge was stripped from true up-bringing, it would increase man's strength, but not his morals.
men over-you soul
In the desert you become a discoverer. You discover your soul, which had been submerged in vain pursuits, which had been lost in the coils and toils of modern life. You discover your kinship with nature and man, which is evoked by the naturalness and the gentle humanity of the natives of the desert, and you will also discover God.
men soul psychology
Breathless and unharmed, we emerge from the mazes of metaphysics and psychology where man and the soul are playing hide-and-seek.
men tears littles
It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.
men treats brutes
When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.
men wicked world
When a man has calamity upon calamity the world generally concludes that he must be a very wicked man to deserve them. Perhaps the world is right; but it is also just possible that the world ... may be wrong.
men democracy care
politicians ... turn patriotism into shopkeeping and their own interest - men who care far more for who governs us than for how we are governed.. And what will be the end of such ways? I will tell you. We shall have a Democracy that will be the reign of those who know the least and talk the loudest.
men twenties ready
A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty.
men talking together
I actually performed at an orthodox Jewish wedding, where the men were separated from the women, but they both came together to not enjoy what I was talking about. Andy Kindler
men use world
The world asks, "What does a man own?"; Christ asks, "How does he use it?" Andy Murray
men tragedy stories
A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.
men tribes thieves
ETHNOLOGY, n. The science that treats of the various tribes of Man, as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and ethnologists. Ambrose Bierce
men he-man incompetence
A bad workman quarrels with the man who calls him that.
men mind brotherhood
A man who piously shuts himself up to meditate upon the sin of wickedness and to keep it fresh in his mind joins a brotherhood of awful examples.
men thinking civilization
BRAIN, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think. That which distinguishes the man who is content to be something from the man who wishes to do something. A man of great wealth, or one who has been pitchforked into high station, has commonly such a headful of brain that his neighbors cannot keep their hats on. In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, brain is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
men world tribes
PIGMY, n. One of a tribe of very small men found by ancient travelers in many parts of the world, but by modern in Central Africa only. The Pigmies are so called to distinguish them from the bulkier Caucasians - who are Hogmies.
men race two
Male, A member of the unconsidered or negligible gender. The male of the human race is commonly known to the female as Mere Man. The Genus has two varieties: good providers and bad providers.
men feelings enemy
Contempt; the feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed.
men voting choices
ELECTOR, n. One who enjoys the sacred privilege of voting for the man of another man's choice.
men thinking pigs
Reverence for the Supreme Being, based upon His supposed resemblance to man. The pig is taught by sermons and epistles / To think the God of Swine has snout and bristles.
men self favors
The poor man's price of admittance to the favor of the rich is his self-respect.
men doe true-man
True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
men style mind
Strive not for singularity in dress; Fools have the more and men of sense the less. To look original is not worth while, But be in mind a little out of style.
men devotion distinction
What a woman most admires in a man is distinction among men. What a man most admires in a woman is devotion to himself.
men law body
CONGRESS, n. A body of men who meet to repeal laws.
men two world
INCOMPOSSIBLE, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them, but not enough for both - as Walt Whitman's poetry and God's mercy to man.
men heaven zenith
ZENITH, n. The point in the heavens directly overhead to a man standing or a growing cabbage. A man in bed or a cabbage in the pot is not considered as having a zenith, though Horizontalists hold that the posture of the body was immaterial.
men president politics
ADMINISTRATION, n. An ingenious abstraction in politics, designed to receive the kicks and cuffs due to the premier or president. A man of straw, proof against bad-egging and dead-catting.
men body congress
The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors.
men speak slander
Backbite: To ''speak of a man as you find him'' when he can't find you.
men self feet
A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.