Every Man Quotes - Page 37

• Every man is correct in asking God why he is stuck with himself, and his rotten luck.

  William Saroyan

  Men, Self, Luck

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• Every Man is the Architect of his own Fortunes, but the Neighbours superintend the Construction.

  George Ade

  Men, Construction, Neighbor

  "Hand-made Fables".

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• Each of us when he appears before his fellows is clothed in a certain dignity. But every man knows what unconfessable things pass within the secrecy of his own heart.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Heart, Men, Guilt

  Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Six Characters In Search of an Author”, p.19, Jester House Publishing

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• Every man praises his own wares.

  John Ray

  Men, Praise

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• The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live.

  Sean O'Casey

  Wise, Gay, Men

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• There is a raging tiger inside every man whom God put on this earth. Every man worthy of the respect of his children spends his life building inside himself a cage to pen that tiger in.

  Murray Kempton

  Children, Men, Earth

  Murray Kempton (1972). “America comes of middle age: columns, 1950-1962”

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• Every man's happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Happiness, Men, Built

  Ivan Turgenev (2013). “Delphi Works of Ivan Turgenev (Illustrated)”, p.451, Delphi Classics

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• Those rights, then, which God and nature have established, and are therefore called natural rights, such as life and liberty, need not the aid of human laws to be more effectually invested in every man than they are; neither do they receive any additional strength when declared by the municipal laws to be inviolate. On the contrary, no human legislature has power to abridge or destroy them, unless the owner shall himself commit some act that amounts to a forfeiture.

  William Blackstone

  Men, Rights, Law

  William Blackstone (1922). “Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books”, p.45, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• Theology emerged not as a course of knowledge but as a feast of homily and imagination and exaggeration in which every man could find his image and his portion. And yet there were limits.

  Israel Shenker

  Men, Imagination, Limits

  Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

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• Every man's life is a plan of God.

  Horace Bushnell

  Life, Men, Headstone

  Horace Bushnell (1866). “The Vicarious Sacrifice: Grounded in Principles of Universal Obligation”, p.2

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• There comes a time in every man's life when he needs his own toilet.

  Patrick Süskind

  Men, Needs, Toilets

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• For so great is the difference between just and unjust, that it is visible even in the lifeless image of it. For what order will be left in the world, if these opposites be confounded together? Such a distinction as this, therefore, between virtuous and vicious actions, has not only been engraven by the Lord in the heart of every man, but has also been frequently confirmed by his providential dispensations.

  John Calvin

  Heart, Men, Action

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• ... the death of the spirit which threatens every man unless he is conscious of the danger and has a real purpose which can keep it alive and enable it to thrust its way through the choking weeds and thorns to the air and to the sun

  Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper

  Inspirational, Weed, Real

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• Some psychological and sociological conditioning occurs in every man's life and this affects the decisions he makes. But we must resist the modern concept that all sin can be explained merely on the basis of conditioning.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Men, Decision, Sin

  Francis August Schaeffer (1982). “The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of the church”

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• Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.

  T. E. Brown

  Art, Men, Doe

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• From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it.

  William Cobbett

  Country, Men, Age

  'Political Register' 22 December 1832

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• Every man is his own law court and punishes himself enough.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Men, Law, Crime

  Patricia Highsmith (2001). “Strangers on a Train”, p.252, W. W. Norton & Company

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• When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser.

  Whittaker Chambers

  Children, Pain, Men

  Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.22, Regnery Publishing

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• Every man is received in heaven who receives heaven in himself while in the world, and he is excluded who does not.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Men, Heaven, Doe

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• Every man has a day in his life when nobody can defeat him.

  Robert Boswell

  Men, Defeat

  Robert Boswell (1995). “Living to be a hundred: stories”, Harper Perennial

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• And every man decideth The way his soul shall go.

  William Arthur Dunkerley

  Men, Soul, Way

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• The Reformers, therefore, as instruments in the hands of God, in delivering the Church from bondage to prelates, did not make it a tumultuous multitude, in which every man was a law to himself, free to believe, and free to do what he pleased.

  Charles Hodge

  Believe, Men, Hands

  Charles Hodge (1855). “What is Presbyterianism?: An Address Delivered Before the Presbyterian Historical Society at Their Anniversary Meeting in Philadelphia, on Tuesday Evening, May 1, 1855”, p.13

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• I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

  Robert Tappan Morris

  Death, Hate, Men

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• I'm not looking for anything. I think all men are dogs, I honestly do. Every man starts barking sooner or later.

  Octavia St. Laurent

  Dog, Men, Thinking

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• A true woman of virtue is one who will socialize with every man on earth, and doesn't share her body with any of them.

  Michael Bassey

  Men, True Woman, Body

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