Quotes about men
men laughing feelings
Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear. Lord Byron
men thinking sharks
Man is a carnivorous production, And must have meals, at least one meal a day; He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction, But, like the shark and tiger, must have prey; Although his anatomical construction Bears vegetables, in a grumbling way, Your laboring people think beyond all question, Beef, veal, and mutton better for digestion.
men imagination optical-illusions
If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself...that a tiger is an optical illusion--well, he will find out he is wrong. The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.
men land voice
Yet still there whispers the small voice within, Heard through Gain's silence, and o'er Glory's din; Whatever creed be taught or land be trod, Man's conscience is the oracle of God.
men trying unwilling
I cannot describe to you the despairing sensation of trying to do something for a man who seems incapable or unwilling to do anything further for himself.
men may graves
Perhaps the early grave Which men weep over may be meant to save.
men miserable poet
For a man to become a poet (witness Petrarch and Dante), he must be in love, or miserable.
men hands may
Kill a man's family, and he may brook it, But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket.
men bird parent
Oh, nature's noblest gift, my grey goose quill, Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from the parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men.
men hackney enough
A man must serve his time to every trade, Save censure-critics all are ready made. Take hackney'd jokes from Miller, got by rote With just enough learning to misquote...
men alone-man vanity
'Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give, No hollow aid; alone - man with God must strive.
men ancient holy
If ancient tales say true, nor wrong these holy men.
men land losing
Land of lost gods and godlike men.
men soul whiteness
He had kept The whiteness of his soul, and thus men o'er him wept.
men effort literature
I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.
men divine source
Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.
men law discovery
There is something breathtaking about the basic laws of crystals. They are in no sense a discovery of the human mind; they just "are" - they exist quite independently of us. The most that man can do is become aware, in a moment of clarity, that they are there, and take cognizance of them. M. C. Escher
men mad tone
I love The Killing, I love Homeland and Mad Men, all those shows that lean into the tone of things. M. Night Shyamalan
men years solitude
The things men come to eat when they are alone are, I suppose, not much stranger than the men themselves.... A writer years ago told me of living for five months on hen mash. M. F. K. Fisher
men law cake
As for the house, it is scrubbed to the tiniest mousehole before Passover, to avoid such dangers as even a forgotten cake crumb might cause. Passover dishes are probably the most interesting of any in the Jewish cuisine because of the lack of leaven and the resulting challenge to fine cooks.... Everything is doubly rich, as if to compensate for the lack of leaven... [W]oes are forgotten in the pleasures of the table, for if the Mosaic laws are rightly followed, no man need fear true poison in his belly, but only the results of his own gluttony.
men beast
When we exist without thought or thanksgiving we are not men, but beasts.
men doubt facts
A reasonable doubt is nothing more than a doubt for which reasons can be given. The fact that 1 or 2 men out of 12 differ from the others does not establish that their doubts are reasonable. Lord Hailsham
men trying suggestions
There is a way by which persons can keep their consciences clear before God and man, and that is to preserve within them the spirit of God, which is the spirit of revelation to every man and woman. It will reveal to them, even in the simplest of matters, what they shall do, by making suggestions to them. We should try to learn the nature of this spirit, that we may understand its suggestions, and then we will always be able to do right. This is the grand privilege of every Latter-day Saint. Lorenzo Snow
men exaltation may
As man now is, God once was; as God is now man may be.
men genius doe
Subconsciously the genius is feared as an image breaker; frequently he does not accept the opinions of the mass, or man's opinion of himself. Loren Eiseley
men light mind
When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone.
men mindfulness monkeys
I am not nearly so interested in what monkey man was derived from as I am in what kind of monkey he is to become.
men together marveling
Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation.
men secret alphabet
Each man deciphers from the ancient alphabets of nature only those secrets that his own deeps possess the power to endow with meaning.
men missing matter
God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course.
men birth greater
When man becomes greater than nature, nature, which gave us birth, will respond.
men ghost continents
Every man contains within himself a ghost continent.
men thinking sick
If originally it was not good for a man to be alone, it is much worse for a sick man to be so; he thinks too much of his distemper, and magnifies it. Lord Chesterfield