Every Man Quotes - Page 31

• CENTAUR, n. One of a race of persons who lived before the division of labor had been carried to such a pitch of differentiation, and who followed the primitive economic maxim, "Every man his own horse."

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Horse, Men

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.29, 谷月社

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• This can never become popular, and, indeed, has no occasion to be so; for fine-spun arguments in favour of useful truths make just as little impression on the public mind as the equally subtle objections brought against these truths. On the other hand, since both inevitably force themselves on every man who rises to the height of speculation, it becomes the manifest duty of the schools to enter upon a thorough investigation of the rights of speculative reason, and thus to prevent the scandal which metaphysical controversies are sure, sooner or later, to cause even to the masses.

  Immanuel Kant

  School, Men, Hands

  Immanuel Kant (1855). “Critique of pure reason, tr. by J.M.D. Meiklejohn”, p.37

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• To Mercy Pity Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. For Mercy Pity Peace and Love Is God our father dear. And Mercy Pity Peace and Love Is Man his child and care. Then every man of every clime That prays in his distress Prays to the human form divine: Love Mercy Pity Peace. And all must love the human form In heathen, Turk, or Jew. Where Mercy, Love and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too.

  William Blake

  Love, Peace, Children

  William Blake (2017). “Songs of Innocence and Experience”, p.17, BookRix

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• The highest happiness on earth is marriage. Every man who is happily married is a successful man even if he has failed in everything else.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Happiness, Marriage, Failure

  William Lyon Phelps (2016). “Marriage”, p.7, Read Books Ltd

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• The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. Religion reminds every man that he is his brother's keeper.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Brother, Men

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1968). “I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr”

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• Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment.

  Samuel Johnson

  Time, Men, Resolution

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1824). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished”, p.99

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• Every man of character will have that character questioned. Every man of honor and courage will be faced with unjust criticism, but never forget that unjust criticism has no impact whatsoever upon the truth. And the only sure way to avoid criticism is to do nothing and be nothing.

  Andy Andrews

  Character, Men, Impact

  Andy Andrews (2005). “The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success”, p.124, Thomas Nelson

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• In a profound sense every man has two halves to his being; he is not one person so much as two persons trying to act in unison. I believe that in the heart of each human being there is something which I can only describe as a child of darkness who is equal and complementary to the more obvious child of light.

  Laurens van der Post

  Children, Believe, Heart

  Laurens Van Der Post (2013). “Feather Fall: An Anthology of Laurens Van Der Post”, p.35, Random House

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• I declare and I challenge all mankind to contradict my declaration, that no man can give any account of the order of Freemasonry, of its origin, of its history, of its object, nor any explanation of its mysteries and symbols, which does not leave the mind in total uncertainty on all these points. Every man is entitled therefore, to give any explanation of the symbols and a system of the doctrine that he can render palatable.

  Adam Weishaupt

  Men, Order, Giving

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• If every man, ...ceased to hate and blame every other man for his own failures and shortcomings, we would see the end of every evil in the world, from war to backbiting.

  Grace Metalious

  Hate, War, Men

  Grace Metalious (2011). “Peyton Place”, p.281, UPNE

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• Every man who has reached even his intellectual teens begins to suspect that life is no farce; that it is not genteel comedy even; that it flowers and fructifies on the contrary out of the profoundest tragic depths of the essential dearth in which its subject's roots are plunged. The natural inheritance of everyone who is capable of spiritual life is an unsubdued forest where the wolf howls and the obscene bird of night chatters.

  Henry James, Sr.

  Spiritual, Flower, Night

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• This New Age is marking the dawn of a new world-thought. That new thought is a new cosmic concept of the value of man to man. The whole world is discovering that all mankind is one and that the unity of man is real – not just an abstract idea. Mankind is beginning to discover that the hurt of any man hurts every man, and, conversely, the uplift of any man uplifts every man

  Walter Russell

  Uplifting, Hurt, Real

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• Every man should be master of anything he does and should do it in a masterly manner, with love, no matter what it is, whether hard physical work, menial or boring work, or inspirational work.

  Walter Russell

  Men, Doe, Matter

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• Christmas Pie Lo! now is come our joyfull'st feast! Let every man be jolly; Each room with ivy leaves is dressed, And every post with holly. Now all our neighbours' chimneys smoke, And Christmas blocks are burning; Their ovens they with bakemeats choke, And all their spits are turning. Without the door let sorrow lie, And if for cold it hap to die, We'll bury it in a Christmas pie, And ever more be merry.

  George Wither

  Lying, Block, Men

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• If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Law, Essentials

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.132, Harvard University Press

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• Every man is responsible only for his own acts. The sons do not inherit the sins of the fathers. But can we say: that was long ago, they were different?

  Aleksander Kwasniewski

  Father, Son, Men

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• For every man, peace of soul is precious. With those who have attained peace of soul, the body can be in constant motion; in work, in pain, but their souls, affixed to God, always remain in unwavering peace.

  Nikolaj Velimirovic

  Pain, Men, Soul

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• More will be accomplished, and better, and with more ease, if every man does what he is best fitted to do, and nothing else.

  Plato

  Men, Doe, Ease

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• We don't often look into these unpleasant details of our great struggle. We all prefer to think that every man who wore the blue or gray was a Philip Sidney at heart.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Struggle, Heart, Eye

  Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.80, Vanderbilt University Press

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• Every man is a moon; he has a side no one sees.

  Mark Twain

  Wisdom, Men, Moon

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• Every man, and every body of men on earth, possesses the right of self-government. They receive it with their being from the hand of nature. Individuals exercise it by their single will; collections of men by that of their majority; for the law of the majority is the natural law of every society of men.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Change, Exercise, Men

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private : Published by the Order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the Original Manuscripts, Deposited in the Department of State”, p.496

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• Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself as the only reasonable creature among crazy people who think they are disinherited monarchs.

  Adam Gopnik

  Crazy, Men, Thinking

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• Let every man consider virtue as what devolves on himself. He may not yield the performance of it even to his teacher.

  Confucius

  Teacher, Men, Yield

  Confucius (2009). “The Confucian Analects, the Great Learning & the Doctrine of the Mean”, p.304, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A hand from Washington will be stretched out and placed upon every man’s business; the eye of the federal inspector will be in every man’s counting house… The law will of necessity have Indus[tr]ial features, it will provide penalties, it will create complicated machinery. Under it, men will be hauled into courts distant from their homes. Heavy fines imposed by distant and unfamiliar tribunals will constantly menace the taxpayer. An army of federal inspectors, spies, and detectives will descend upon the state.

  Richard E. Byrd

  Home, Eye, Army

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• Every man is a bachelor out of his wife's sight!

  Margaret Way

  Men, Sight, Wife

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