Quotes about men
men earth-day conservation
Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature. Dennis Gabor
men two mountain
A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren mountain, or in the trackless desert. Denis Kearney
men done turns
To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach. Demosthenes
men benefits facts
The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once.
men helping willing
No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.
men excellence may
By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
men abuse praise
It is the natural disposition of all men to listen with pleasure to abuse and slander of their neighbour, and to hear with impatience those who utter praises of themselves.
men use able
The more able a man is, if he make ill use of his abilities, the more dangerous will he be to the commonwealth.
men noble impossible
It is impossible for men engaged in low and groveling pursuits to have noble and generous sentiments. A man's thought must always follow his employment.
men thinking evening
The man who is in the highest state of prosperity, and who thinks his fortune is most secure, knows not if it will remain unchanged till the evening.
men evil deeds
Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.
men giving useless
Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly. Democritus
men honest wealth
The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
men luxury tables
Fortune provides a man's table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
men law envy
The laws would not prevent each man from living according to his inclination, unless individuals harmed each other; for envy creates the beginning of strife.
men blow torn-apart
Coition is a slight attack of apoplexy. For man gushes forth from man, and is separated by being torn apart with a kind of blow.
men littles microcosm
Man is a universe in little [ Microcosm ].
men fool cease
Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
men
Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
men cities slave
There are some men who are masters of cities but slaves to women.
men thinking littles
Men should strive to think much and know little.
men intelligent order
Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity. For Chance rarely conflicts with intelligence, and most things in life can be set in order by an intelligent sharpsightedness.
men animal doe
The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
men practice
More men have become great through practice than by nature.
men cities brave
The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures. Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.
men desire deeds
You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but also his desires.
men want said
There's so much goop inside of us, man," he said, "and it all just wants to get out. Denis Johnson
men missing ungrateful
Isn't it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good? Denis Diderot
men giving shame
Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
men gentleman he-man
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
men theatre wicked
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
men doe needs
What a hell of an economic system! Some are replete with everything while others, whose stomachs are no less demanding, whose hunger is just as recurrent, have nothing to bite on. The worst of it is the constrained posture need puts you in. The needy man does not walk like the rest; he skips, slithers, twists, crawls.
men play voice
It is not the man who is beside himself, but he who is cool and collected,--who is master of his countenance, of his voice, of his actions, of his gestures, of every part of his play,--who can work upon others at his pleasure.