Quotes about men
men use obstinacy
No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion. Henry Ward Beecher
men doe flattery
A man that does not love praise is not a full man.
men wealth pleasure
Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it.
men sorrow sincere
Sorrow makes men sincere.
men cunning-man half
A cunning man overreaches no one half as much as himself.
men government
It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
men hunting fishing
Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
men experience portraits
God sends experience to paint men's portraits.
men order work-out
A dull axe never loves grindstones, but a keen workman does; and he puts his tool on them in order that it may be sharp. And men do not like grinding; but they are dull for the purposes which God designs to work out with them, and therefore He is grinding them.
men criticism faults
No man can tell another his faults so as to benefit him, unless he loves him.
men joy world
Men are not put into this world to be everlastingly played on by the harping fingers of joy.
men easy break
Sharp men, like sharp needles, break easy, though they pierce quick.
men defeat bones
It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.
men worry rust
It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.
men liberty knows
There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
men idols
Men can make an idol of the Bible.
men understanding made
It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made.
men land hands
A man without a vote is in this land like a man without a hand.
men trouble teach
Trouble teaches men how much there is in manhood.
men walking
Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
men garden air
A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging perfume from every little censer it holds up in the air.
men tree leafs
Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.
men two perfection
When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
men hands feet
Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
men reign events
God made every man to have power to be mightier than the events round about him; to hold by his firm will the reigns by which all things are guided.
men perfect dumb
There is so much that is deaf and dumb in man, and so much that is paralyzed, so much that is shrunken, that nothing short of a miraculous touch of re-creation can make them at death perfect beings.
men good-man now-and-then
Good men are not those who now and then do a good act, but men who join one good act to another.
men choices desire
Men have a thousand desires to a bushel of choices.
men soul feelings
Indeed, unless a man can link his written thoughts with the everlasting wants of men, so that they shall draw more from them as wells, there is no more immortality to the thoughts and feelings of the soul than to the muscles and bones.
men shopping people
What is the disposition which makes men rejoice in good bargains? There are few people who will not be benefited by pondering over the morals of shopping.
men baptism he-man
That is the best baptism that leaves the man cleanest inside.
men discipline defeated
No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.
men world principles
A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.