Quotes about men
men pay
There is nothing namable but that some men will, or undertake to, do it for pay. Herman Melville
men want needs
There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.
men profound way
I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
men oil hair
In truth, a mature man who uses hair oil, unless medicinally, that man has probably got a quoggy spot in him somewhere.
men skins honest
A man can be honest in any sort of skin.
men thinking cannibal
Think of it. To go down to posterity as a 'man who lived among the cannibals.'
men catholic mind
Any appellative at all savouring of arbitrary rank is unsuitable to a man of liberal and catholic mind.
men done world
Men there are, who having quite done with the world, all its merely worldly contents are become so far indifferent, that they carelittle of what mere worldly imprudence they may be guilty.
men thinking use
...a man of true science uses few hard words, and those only when none other will answer his purpose; Where as the smatterer in science...thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
men strange affair
There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke.
men balance world
...in certain moods, no man can weigh this world without throwing in something, somehow like Original Sin, to strike the uneven balance.
men thinking laughing
A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity. So, if any one man, in his own proper person, afford stuff for a good joke to anybody, let him not be backward, but let him cheerfully allow himself to spend and be spent in that way. And the man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for.
men thinking cover-ups
But when a man suspects any wrong it sometimes happens that if he be already involved in the matter he insensibly strives to cover up his suspicions even from himself. And much this way it was with me. I said nothing and tried to think nothing.
men greed want
The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
men doubt solve
There are doubts, sir, which, if man have them, it is not man that can solve them.
men sea soul
For in tremendous extremities human souls are like drowning men; well enough they know they are in peril; well enough they know the causes of that peril;--nevertheless, the sea is the sea, and these drowning men do drown.
men secret world
It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him.
men brave capes
Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver, but less daring. Thus with seamen: he who goes the oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly.
men giving ships
As with ships, so with men; he who turns his back to his foe gives him an advantage.
men sea fishing
There's magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.
men sailing nautical
There never was a great man yet who spent all his life inland.
men ideas rude
The idea of Jehovah was born here... Out of the rude elements of the insignificant thoughts thoughts that are in all men, they reared the transcendent conception of a God.
men he-man
Only the man who says no is free
men soul mind
O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies; not the smallest atom stirs or lives on matter, but has its cunning duplicate in mind.
men play feelings
What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
men color should
God is liberal of color; so should man be.
men guilt want
An indiscriminate distrust of human nature is the worst consequence of a miserable condition, whether brought about by innocence or guilt. And though want of suspicion more than want of sense, sometimes leads a man into harm; yet too much suspicion is as bad as too little sense.
men people world
It may seem strange that of all men sailors should be tinkering at their last wills and testaments, but there are no people in the world more fond of that diversion.
men liberty testimony
I will live and die by this testimony: that I loved a good conscience; that I never invaded another man's liberty; and that I preserved my own.
men slavery born-free
When the passage "All men are born free and equal," when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?
men numbers support
All experience teaches that, whenever there is a great national establishment, employing large numbers of officials, the public must be reconciled to support many incompetent men; for such is the favoritism and nepotism always prevailing in the purlieus of these establishments, that some incompetent persons are always admitted, to the exclusion of many of the worthy.
men doubt atheism
Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me.
men skins honest
And what is it, thought I, after all! It’s only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin.