Men Quotes · Page 710

The greatest risk to man is not that he aims to high and misses, but that he aims to low and hits.

— Anonymous

Law is good, proper, and essential in its place, but law can save no man, nor can law remake man and society.

— R.J. Rushdoony

... we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance.

— George Eliot

I'm lucky to have my dad in my life. He's very brilliant, I think he's really a smart man, and he's a…

— Cody Horn

I'm the man of the hour, the man with the power, too sweet to be sour.

— Billy Graham

What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good.

— Martin Luther

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

— Blaise Pascal

Men would pray better if they lived better. They would get more from God if they lived more obedient and well-pleasing to…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

Forgetting the things that lie behind, I will strive towards my higher spiritual possibilities. I dedicate myself anew to the service of…

— Alice Bailey

Jesmyn Ward returns to the world of her first two books, but here in the mode of non-fiction. A clear-eyed witness to…

— Nicholas Delbanco

It was hard for an American to understand the contented acceptance by English men and women of permanent places in the lowest…

— Virginia Gildersleeve

But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of those very men…

— Umberto Eco

Men and kings must be judged in the testing moments of their lives. Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities,…

— Winston Churchill

I am not an attractive man. These clothes are the only thing holding me together; when I'm nude, my body shoots off…

— Jeremy Hotz

But on one man's soul it hath broken, / A light that doth not depart; / And his look, or a word…

— Arthur O'Shaughnessy

An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man…

— Bertrand Russell

And even if these scenes from our youth were given back to us we would hardly know what to do. The tender,…

— Erich Maria Remarque

The attendant on William Rufus, who discharged at a deer an arrow, which glanced against a tree and killed the king, was…

— Richard Whately

Everybody allows that to know any other science you must have first studied it, and that you can only claim to express…

— Anonymous

The verses talked about other Prophets as brothers preaching the same unifying script of mankind, showing every man and woman the way…

— Cat Stevens

The regenerate man's desires are rectified; they are set on God himself, and the things above... Before, he saw no beauty in…

— Thomas Boston

“Nearly everyone has had a box of secret pain, shared with no one. Will [Hamilton] had concealed his well, laughed loud, exploited…

— john steinbeck

Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man. There is one of whom we took no note, but on a certain occasion…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everyone wants to be foremost in this future-and yet death and the stillness of death are the only things certain and common…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word.

— Lord Acton

You see what happens today. Women act like men and want to be treated like women.

— Alan Jay Lerner

God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.

— Criss Jami

The man's [Bush] embarrassing. He's not my president and he never will be either.

— Julia Roberts

The great art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The gap between enthusiasm and indifference is filled with failures. The great man is he that does not lose his child's heart.

— Mencius

Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men's minds are also injured by them.

— Mencius

When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.

— B. F. Skinner

Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.

— Oscar Wilde

“Your assignment from God is not to change your husband, but to love, follow, assist, and minister to him.”

— Elizabeth George

My life there[in New York] was almost entirely about gay men for 30 years.

— Nan Goldin

The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.

— Hippocrates

A lot of men got upset at the feminist movement because they had all the toys and we wanted some.

— Judith Martin

Struggles only move forward when decent men and women step forward and say, 'enough is enough and no more.'

— Kumi Naidoo

I grew up in Vancouver, man. That's where more than half of my style comes from.

— Seth Rogen

The most difficult secret for a man to keep is the opinion he has of himself.

— Marcel Pagnol