Quotes about men
men forget conversation
We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men. Jorge Luis Borges
men ideas should
Every man should be capable of all ideas.
men actors he-man
When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
men illustration lines
The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.
men years water
On the floor, and hanging on to the bar, squatted an old man, immobile as an object. His years had reduced and polished him as water does a stone or the generations of men do a sentence.
men letters too-much
In fact I'm in too much of a mental muddle to know where I am - an idealist or not. I'm a mere man of letters, and I do what I can with those subjects.
men heaven action
Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
men new-day soldier
I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
men african-american comedian
I've always thought of myself as an African-American comedian, African-American man, everything. Jordan Peele
men long world
As long as man labors for a physical existence, though an act of necessity almost, he is yet natural; it is life, though that of this world, for which he instinctively works. Jones Very
men shoes
I never loved a man as far as I could pitch my shoe. Joni Mitchell
men eyelashes names
The afrit batted his eyelashes with a ostentatious lack of concern. "Indeed? Have you a name?" "A name?" I cried. "I have MANY names! I am Bartimaeus! I am Sakhr al-Jinni! I am N'gorso the Mighty and the Serpent of Silver Plumes!" I paused dramatically. The young man looked blank. "Nope never heard of you. Now if you'll just- Jonathan Stroud
men mirrors cheesy
There was a loud cough from the man on the stand. I replaced My Magic Mirror carefully on his tray, gave him a cheesy smile, and went my way.
men broomsticks mortals
Surely mortal man is a broomstick! Jonathan Swift
men may fool
Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
men giving people
There is no talent so useful toward rising in the world, or which puts men more out of the reach of fortune, than that quality generally possessed by the dullest sort of men, and in common speech called discretion; a species of lower prudence, by the assistance of which, people of the meanest intellectuals, without any other qualification, pass through the world in great tranquillity, and with universal good treatment, neither giving nor taking offence.
men law judging
Conscience signifies that knowledge which a man hath of his own thoughts and actions; and because, if a man judgeth fairly of his actions by comparing them with the law of God, his mind will approve or condemn him; this knowledge or conscience may be both an accuser and a judge.
men mind example
A traveler's chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad-as well as good example of what they deliver concerning foreign places.
men honor degrees
This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
men pay literature
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
men evil guilt
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
men talking beast
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
men too-late limping
Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
men house mind
I have heard of a man who had a mind to sell his house, and therefore carried a piece of brick in his pocket, which he shewed as a pattern to encourage purchasers.
men providing another-time
Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time.
men self inquiry
The motives of the best actions will not bear too strict an inquiry. It is allowed that the cause of most actions, good or bad, may be resolved into the love of ourselves; but the self-love of some men inclines them to please others, and the self-love of others is wholly employed in pleasing themselves. This makes the great distinction between virtue and vice.
men ungrateful veils
He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the veil that a man can be guilty of.
men behaviour suits
One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and those below us.
men age genius
There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them.
men people watches
So I know how I watch movies which is on my laptop, man. And that's how I suspect a lot of people do it. Kevin Smith
men why-not shots
Live a "Why not?" life, man. Take the shot. The shot is always worth taking.
men language vulgarity
One man's frankness is another man's vulgarity.
men convince
A man can convince anyone hes someone else but never himself. Kevin Spacey