Quotes about men
men games self-reliance
A man must consider what a blindman's-buff is this game of conformity. Ralph Waldo Emerson
men theology
Men are better than this theology.
men
I like man, but not men.
men truism
Never utter the truism but live it among men.
men class middle
All great men come out of the middle classes.
men america sublime
In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.
men taste temper
Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.
men mind lenses
Men are lenses through which we read our own minds.
men ears catchy
There are men too superior to be seen except by a few, as there are notes too high for the scale of most ears.
men ties insanity
The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those perverse tendencies and gloomy insanities in which fine intellects sometimes lose themselves. A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still convertible. If that sense is lost, his fellow-men can do little for him.
men careers hiding
If you love and serve man, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape remuneration.
men life-is he-man
The pleasure of life is according to the man that lives it, and not according to the work or place.
men judging judgement
A man cannot speak but he judges himself
men tree world
Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.
men stressed-out ears
There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment.
men law class
But I cannot recite, even thus rudely, laws of the intellect, without remembering that lofty and sequestered class of men who have been its prophets and oracles, the high-priesthood of the pure reason, the Trismegisti, the expounders of the principles of thought from age to age.
men law conservative
The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.
men self-reliance virtue
Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues.
men self views
It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men; in their religion; in their education; in their pursuits; their modes of living; their association; in their property; in their speculative views.
men animal ideas
To the men of this world, to the animal strength and spirits, to the men of practical power, whilst immersed in it, the man of ideas appears out of his reason. They alone gave reason.
men imagination sacred
Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.
men nonconformist be-a-man
To be a man is to be a nonconformist.
men public-speaking eloquent
Every man is eloquent once in his life.
men law political
Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed in the word politics ....?
men games feet
In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place.
men years white
Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.
men land ifs
If a man owns land, the land owns him.
men mind common
There is one mind common to all individual men
men light world
A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.
men self perfection
Self reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.
men jewels axes
More than the diamond Koh-i-noor, which glitters among their crown jewels, they prize the dull pebble which is wiser than a man, whose poles turn themselves to the poles of the world, and whose axis is parallel to the axis of the world. Now, their toys are steam and galvanism.
men intellectual bait
The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.
men soldier joints
Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In the divided or social state these functions are parcelled out to individuals, each of whom aims to do his stint of the joint work, whilst each other performs his.