Quotes about men
men action thinker
The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
men names effort
One of the eternal conflicts out of which life is made up is that between the effort of every man to get the most he can for his services, and that of society, disguised under the name of capital, to get his services for the least possible return.
men fire liberty
The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.
men minorities locks
The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.
men opinion argument
A man's opinions are generally of much more value than his arguments.
men drunk devil
There is in all men a demand for the superlative, so much so that the poor devil that has no other way of reaching it attains it by getting drunk.
men ideas mind
Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
men ideas latter
A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
men squares political
Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
men chiefs ends
I dare say that I have worked off my fundamental formula on you that the chief end of man is to frame general propositions and that no general proposition is worth a damn.
men law want
Pretty much all law consists in forbidding men to do something that they want to do.
men ancestry ancestor
Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.
men choices liberty
Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.
men whales water
I attempt to surf. Im not as good as anyone else in the water. Im more like a beached whale. I just hang out on my board. I can ride, but I get too nervous unless I go with my boyfriend or my trainer. There are too many burly men out there! Olesya Rulin
men opinion states
The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies. Oliver Cromwell
men law break
Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities, are the greatest cozenage men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretences to break known rules by.
men water tree
There isn't a tree to hang a man, water to drown a man nor soil to bury a man
men advice constitution
That which brought me into the capacity I now stand in, was the Petition and Advice given me by you, who, in reference to the ancient Constitution, did draw me here to accept the place of Protector. There is not a man living can say I sought it, no not a man, nor woman, treading upon English ground.
men may honest
There are some things in this establishment that are fundamental... about which I shall deal plainly with you... the government by a single person and a parliament is a fundamental... and... though I may seem to plead for myself, yet I do not: no, nor can any reasonable man say it... I plead for this nation, and all the honest men therein.
men liberty conscience
For that which you mention concerning liberty of conscience, I meddle not with any man's conscience.
men fear-god
Because I fear God, I have no man to fear.
men laughing personality
If a man can make me laugh and stimulate me intellectually, then I wouldn't mind if he was 4 ft. 8 in. with a huge belly. The only thing that would put me off is bad breath - but even that can be fixed. A bad personality isn't so easy to fix. Olga Kurylenko
men thinking guy
I love it when a man cooks; it's one of those points that makes me adore a guy. I think it's so romantic and I feel cared for when a man cooks.
men light perfect
God said, 'When one man and one woman shine together, it makes the most perfect light. Olive Schreiner
men body flesh
No woman who is a woman says of a human body, 'it is nothing' ... On this one point, and on this point alone, the knowledge of woman, simply as woman, is superior to that of man; she knows the history of human flesh; she knows its cost; he does not.
men thinking moon
Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there is.
men railroads bigs
I was one man and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could.
men fiction dull
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women. O. Henry
men editors differences
There are a few editor men with whom I am privileged to come in contact. It has not been long since it was their habit to come in contact with me. There is a difference.
men hair way
When a man begins to be hilarious in a sorrowful way you can bet a million that he is dyeing his hair.
men hands way
Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.
men cities flames
In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.
men impossible worship
To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.