Quotes about men
men land wrath
That man who is more then his elements knows the land that is more than its analysis. John Steinbeck
men light mind
Sometimes a kind of glory lights up the mind of a man.
men ease nests
Some men ease themselves like setting hens into the nest of death.
men machines thumbs
There is no term comparable to green thumbs to apply to such a mechanic, but there should be. For there are men who can look, listen, tap, make an adjustment, and a machine works.
men exit delay
I see too many men delay their exits with a sickly, slow reluctance to leave the stage. It's bad theater as well as bad living.
men boys needed
A boy becomes a man when a man is needed
men order perfect
There is no lostness like that which comes to a man when a perfect and certain pattern has dissolved about him.
men animal society
I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man.
men difficulty mechanism
Only let a man say that he will do something and a whole mechanism goes to work to stop him.
men hunger loses
Some men hunger so much for love that they lose everything that is loveable about them.
men people littles
A man with a beard was always a little suspect anyway. You couldn't say you wore a beard because you liked a beard. People didn't like you for telling the truth. You had to say you had a scar so you couldn't shave.
men flames littles
I am a little man and this is a little town, but there must be a spark in little men that can burst into flame.
men thinking world
For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no matter what he may think about it.
men mind lasts
The last clear definite function of men—muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need—this is man.
men dying genius
When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.
men moral neighbor
All men are moral. Only their neighbors are not.
men thinking giving
Give me a used Bible and I will, I think, be able to tell you about a man by the places that are edged with the dirt of seeking fingers.
men mad alive
One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter Beware. You will never get out of this world alive.
men wrath monsters
The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it.
men eden giving
But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.
men steps bait
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
men wrath knows
I know this... a man got to do what he got to do.
men choices
Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man.
men helping-others world
Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
men mind muscles
Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man.
men literature being-the-best
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
men ladders slipping
A man must make of his life a ladder that he never ceases to climb -- if you're not rising, you are slipping down the rungs, my friend. John Shirley
men thinking enough
I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.
men artist should-have
An artist painting a picture should have at his side a man with a club to hit him over the head when the picture is finished. John Singer Sargent
men coconuts want
The single greatest invention man ever conceived in the dollar bill, because I don't want to know the conversion rate for coconuts. John Smith
men law honest
You must obey this now for a Law, that he that will not worke shall not eate (except by sicknesse he be disabled:) for the labours of thirtie or fortie honest and industrious men shall not be consumed to maintaine an hundred and fiftie idle loyterers.
men thinking way
The best way to manipulate a man is to make him think he is manipulating you.
men land hands
Here every man may be master and owner of his owne labour and land...If he have nothing but his hands, he may...by industrie quickly grow rich.