Quotes about men
men thinking world
There were too many idiot men in the world, to her way of thinking. And most of them ended up bumping up against stubborn women. Nora Roberts
men ideas two
I have no idea why it apparently takes three grown men to cook some hamburgers. One to cook, one to kibbitz, and one to insult the other two.
men boys good-man
It's hard to resist a bad boy who's a good man.
men happens
Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man. Nikolai Gogol
men land ideas
The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea.
men clothes people
He who has talent in him must be purer in soul than anyone else. Another will be forgiven much, but to him it will not be forgiven. A man who leaves the house in bright, festive clothes needs only one drop of mud splashed from under a wheel, and people all surround him, point their fingers at him, and talk about his slovenliness, while the same people ignore many spots on other passers-by who are wearing everyday clothes. For on everyday clothes the spots do not show.
men creative divinity
...in the third epoch the divinity of man's creative nature is finally revealed and divine power becomes human power. Nikolai Berdyaev
men self personality
But man as a person, the same man, gains mastery over egocentric self-confinement by disclosing a universe in himself...Personality is a universe, it is filled with universal content.
men self realization
Self-realization is a process of permanent auto-creation, an elaboration of the new man at the expense of the old.
men sea desire
Countless are, as the sand in the sea, the deep desires of men, and none resembles the other, and all of them, whether shameful, or great, in the beginning are obedient, but later become terrible masters over him.
men land thank-god
We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
men certain
There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
men merit would-be
Man is such a wondrous being that it is never possible to count up all his merits at once. The more you study him, the more new particulars appear, and their description would be endless.
men gambling cards
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
men thinking firsts
They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know.
men warning chance
Once more there sounded within me the terrible warning that there is only one life for all men, that there is only one life for all men, that there is no other and that all that can be enjoyed must be enjoyed here. In eternity no other chance will be given to us. Nikos Kazantzakis
men bird heaven
Once more I realized to what an extent earthly happiness is made to the measure of man. It is not a rare bird which we must pursue at one moment in heaven, at the next in our minds. Happiness is a domestic bird found in our own courtyards.
men discipline desire
Discipline is the highest of all virtues. Only so may strength and desire be counterbalanced and the endeavors of man bear fruit.
men giving good-man
God, what is all this talk put out by the popes? Paradise is here, my good man. God, give me no other paradise!
men able invisible
He who is invisible sees more clearly, hears more clearly, and is better able to read the thoughts of men.
men folly every-man
Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all … is not to have one.
men special routes
Each man must have his own special route to lead him to God.
men soul bars
The canary is like a man's soul. It sees bars around it, but instead of despairing, it sings.
men together truth-is
The truth is that we all are one, that all of us together create god, that god is not man's ancestor, but his descendant.
men sea dying
Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.
men doors forever
You can knock on a deaf man's door forever.
men wings giving
What is truth? What is falsehood? Whatever gives wings to men, whatever produces great works and great souls and lifts up a man's height above the earth - that's true. Whatever clips off man's wings - that's false.
men mind purpose
The progressive development of man [has as its] ultimate purpose the complete mastery of mind over the material world. Nikola Tesla
men progressive invention
The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.
men law study
There is no subject more captivating, more worthy of study, than nature. To understand this great mechanism, to discover the forces which are active, and the laws which govern them, is the highest aim of the intellect of man.
men mind desire
To create and to annihilate material substance, cause it to aggregate in forms according to his desire, would be the supreme manifestation of the power of Man's mind, his most complete triumph over the physical world...
men discovery ideas
Up to that time I never realized that I possessed any particular gift of discovery, but Lord Rayleigh, whom I always considered as an ideal man of science, had said so and if that was the case, I felt that I should concentrate on some big idea.
men may horror
You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.