Quotes about men
men village noble
Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men. Henry David Thoreau
men usa political
How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
men numbers house
When the farmer has got his house, he may not be the richer but the poorer for it, and it be the house that has got him... a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
men law clash
When a man's conscience and the laws clash, it is his conscience that he must follow.
men needs wealth
A man's wealth is measured by what he doesn't need.
men drummer beats
Every man must walk to the beat of his own drummer.
men thinking intellectual
I hardly know an intellectual man, even, who is so broad and truly liberal that you can think aloud in his society.
men long irreverence
Long as I have lived, and many blasphemers as I have heard and seen, I have never yet heard or witnessed any direct and consciousblasphemy or irreverence; but of indirect and habitual, enough. Where is the man who is guilty of direct and personal insolence to Him that made him?
men community doe
An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not.
men transcendentalism he-man
Every man is entitled to come to Cattle-Show, even a transcendentalist; and for my part I am more interested in the men than in the cattle.
men curiosity cabinets
The man who thrusts his manners upon me does as if he were to insist on introducing me to his cabinet of curiosities, when I wished to see himself.
men imagination fancy
The gross feeder is a man in the larva state; and there are whole nations in that condition, nations without fancy or imagination,whose vast abdomens betray them.
men dust wind
I have hardly begun to live on Staten Island yet; but, like the man who, when forbidden to tread on English ground, carried Scottish ground in his boots, I carry Concord ground in my boots and in my hat,--and am I not made of Concord dust? I cannot realize that it is the roar of the sea I hear now, and not the wind in Walden woods. I find more of Concord, after all, in the prospect of the sea, beyond Sandy Hook, than in the fields and woods.
men names distinction
I will not allow mere names to make distinctions for me, but still see men in herds for all them.
men body clay
What is man but a mass of thawing clay?
men offering healthy
Hence it will not do for the Landlord to possess too fine a nature.... He must have no idiosyncracies, no particular bents or tendencies to this or that, but a general, uniform, and healthy development, such as his portly person indicates, offering himself equally on all sides to men.
men pleasure
That man is richest who's pleasure are cheapest.
men names secret
A familiar name cannot make a man less strange to me. It may be given to a savage who retains in secret his own wild title earnedin the woods. We have a wild savage in us, and a savage name is perchance somewhere recorded as ours.
men sky wisest-man
The wisest man preaches no doctrines; he has no scheme; he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It is clear sky.
men rogues faces
It is said that a rogue does not look you in the face, neither does an honest man look at you as if he had his reputation to establish.
men world steps
Any man knows when he is justified, and all the wits in the world cannot enlighten him on that point. The murderer always knows that he is justly punished; but when a government takes the life of a man without the consent of his conscience, it is an audacious government, and is taking a step towards its own dissolution.
men rome flames
The divinity in man is the true vestal fire of the temple which is never permitted to go out, but burns as steadily and with as pure a flame on the obscure provincial altar as in Numa's temple at Rome.
men thinking support
I do not hesitate to say, that those who call themselves Abolitionists should at once effectually withdraw their support, both inperson and property, from the government of Massachusetts, and not wait until they constitute a majority of one, before they suffer the right to prevail through them. I think that it is enough if they have God on their side, without waiting for that other one. Moreover, any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.
men blood years
Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.... If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.
men thinking sheep
We seem to think that the earth must go through the ordeal of sheep-pasturage before it is habitable by man.
men hunting community
Even in civilized communities, the embryo man passes through the hunter stage of development.
men age half
As a man grows older, his ability to sit still and follow indoor occupations increases. He grows vespertinal in his habits as theevening of life approaches, till at last he comes forth only just before sundown, and gets all the walk that he requires in half an hour.
men novelty opinion
As for Clothing, to come at once to the practical part of the question, perhaps we are led oftener by the love of novelty and a regard for the opinions of men, in procuring it, than by a true utility.
men patriotism firsts
I would remind my countrymen that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour.
men justice drowning
If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.
men hands majority-rule
After all, the practical reason why, when the power is once in the hands of the people, a majority are permitted, and for a long period continue, to rule is not because they are most likely to be in the right, nor because this seems fairest to the minority, but because they are physically the strongest. But a government in which the majority rule in all cases cannot be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.
men order excellence
Men are in the main alike, but they were made several in order that they might be various. If a low use is to be served, one man will do nearly quite as well as another; if a high one, individual excellence is to be regarded.
men spirit graves
For the most part, the best man's spirit makes a fearful sprite to haunt his grave.