Quotes about men
men want violence
The most exquisite words and finest strokes of an author are those which very often appear the most doubtful and exceptionable to a man who wants a relish for polite learning; and they are those which a sour undistinguishing critic generally attacks with the greatest violence. Joseph Addison
men good-nature good-humor
Men naturally warm and heady are transported with the greatest flush of good-nature.
men world may
One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
men satisfaction infirmity
Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacence, if they discover none of the like in themselves.
men purpose pennies
Our Grub-street biographers watch for the death of a great man like so many undertakers on purpose to make a penny of him.
men degrees elegance
The lives of great men cannot be writ with any tolerable degree of elegance or exactness within a short time after their decease.
men honor bears
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.
men attention absurd
What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
men aggravation literature
A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
men thinking color
The most important thing that I think we've done this season is to show navy and gray in a very new way. Most men understand navy and gray as a navy blazer and a gray flannel trouser, but today, we're taking that very traditional color palette and putting it in a more modern shape. Joseph Abboud
men squares salt
As we do not see squares in nature, I thought that it is man-made. But I have corrected myself. Because squares exist in salt crystals, our daily salt. Josef Albers
men may ethics
I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.
men evil abuse
But because their ancestors were men of righteousness, shall we consent to the abuses of their degenerate descendants? Because they did us a great good, would we be guilty if we prevented them from doing us evil? Jose Rizal
men numbers noli-me-tangere
Man is multiplied by the number of languages he possesses and speaks.
men remove objects
Man works for an object. Remove that object and you reduce him into inaction.
men hatred noli-me-tangere
It is not the criminals who arouse the hatred of others, but the men who are honest.
men barbarians realizing
To realize the relative validity of one's convictions and yet stand for them unflinchingly is what distinguishes a civilized man from a barbarian. Joseph A. Schumpeter
men often-is perspective
It is however always important to remember that the ability to see things in their correct perspective may be, and often is, divorced from the ability to reason correctly and vice versa. That is why a man may be a very good theorist and yet talk absolute nonsense....
men order long
The beginning is never the clear, precise end of a thread, the beginning is a long, painfully slow process that requires time and patience in order to find out in which direction it is heading, a process that feels its way along the path ahead like a blind man the beginning is just the beginning, what came before is nigh on worthless. Jose Saramago
men way mets
a man was on his way to the gallows when he met another, who asked him: where are you going, my friend? and the condemned man replied: i'm not going anywhere. they're taking me by force.
men doors judging
Some drivers have already got out of their cars, prepared to push the stranded vehicle to a spot where it will not hold up the traffic, they beat furiously on the closed windows, the man inside turns his head in their direction, first to one side then to the other, he is clearly shouting something, to judge by the movements of his mouth he appears to be repeating some words, no one word but three, as turns out to be the case when someone finally manages to open the door, I am blind.
men potters sitting-down
In general, fakirs, like scribes and potters, are sitting down, when he's standing up, a fakir is just like an other man, and sitting down, he'll be smaller than the others
men two legs
There is nothing healthier for a man than to walk on his own two legs.
men order given
Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.
men choices may
I may appear to be an eccentric old man... But this is a free choice. Jose Mujica
men too-much speak
In truth, men speak too much of danger. Jose Marti
men reflection expression
Men are products, expressions, reflections; they live to the extent that they coincide with their epoch, or to the extent that they differ markedly from it.
men mountain-peaks mountain
Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.
men liberty doe
Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.
men light honor
In this world, there must be a certain degree of honor just as there must be a certain amount of light. When there are many men without honor, there will always be some others who bear in themselves the honor of many men.
men wings states
Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.
men order needs
Man needs to go outside himself in order to find repose and reveal himself.
men abjection duty
It is the duty of man to raise up man.