Men Quotes - Page 21

• Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Honesty, Army, Soldier

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1285, Library of Alexandria

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• For thus the royal mandate ran, When first the human race began, "The social, friendly honest man, Whate'er he be, Tis he fulfils great Nature's plan, And none but he!"

  Robert Burns

  Nature, Honesty, Race

  'To the same' [John Lapraik] st. 15

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• The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.

  Richard J. Needham

  Inspiring, Honesty, Brutality

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• You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Honesty, Class

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: English traits”, p.128, Harvard University Press

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• A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart; his next, to escape the censures of the world: if the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself seconded by the applauses of the public.

  Joseph Addison

  Honesty, Heart, Mind

  "Addison's Essays".

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• EXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its class, as an honest man, a truthful woman, etc.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Truth, Honesty, Women

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.72, University of Georgia Press

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• He who by an exertion of mind or body, adds to the aggregate of enjoyable wealth, increases the sum of human knowledge, or gives to human life higher elevation or greater fullness - he is, in the larger meaning of the words, a " producer," a " working man," a " laborer," and is honestly earning honest wages.

  Henry George

  Honesty, Giving, Mind

  Henry George (2006). “Protection Or Free Trade”, p.68, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I am looking for an honest man.

  Diogenes

  Honesty, Honest, Honest Man

  Quoted in Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

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• What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed. Above all is this true when honest men have shaped their conduct on the faith of the pronouncement.

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Honesty, Gains, Precedent

  "The Paradoxes of Legal Science". Book by Benjamin N. Cardozo, 1928.

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• An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced.

  Ayn Rand

  Honesty, Novelists, Being Honest

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.314, Hamilton Books

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• When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.

  Thomas Paine

  Honesty, Integrity, Believe

  Thomas Paine (1861). “The Age of Reason, etc”, p.1

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• I have made up my mind that if there is a God, he will be merciful to the merciful. Upon that rock I stand. That he will not torture the forgiving. Upon that rock I stand. That every man should be true to himself, and that there is no world, no star in which honesty is a crime. Upon that rock I stand.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Stars, Honesty, Rocks

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.291, Library of Alexandria

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• A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions overlap but they almost never coincide.

  Russell Lynes

  Wife, Definitions, Coincidence

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• Consistency is a paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.

  William Allen White

  Jewels, Consistency, Intellectual

  William Allen White (1937). “Forty Years on Main Street”

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• A man, who can, in cold blood, hunt and torture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the distress of his own species.

  Frederick The Great

  Compassion, Hunting, Animal

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• Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.

  Thomas Otway

  Honesty, Knaves, Easy

  Thomas Otway, Thomas Thornton (1813). “The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway: In Three Volumes”, p.17

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• Your fellow man is your mirror. If your own face is clean, the image you perceive will also be flawless.

  Deepak Chopra

  Honesty, Mirrors, Fellow Man

  Twitter post from Sep 11, 2012

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• Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Real, Two, Physicians

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1892). “Rousseau's Émile: Or, Treatise on Education”

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• Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her.

  Honore de Balzac

  Abandoned, Refuse, Willing

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• I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men.

  Euripides

  Love, Strong, Simple

  Euripides (2013). “Medea”, p.34, Lulu.com

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• The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own traveling brotherhood.

  Freya Stark

  Life, Change, Art

  Freya Stark (2013). “Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel”, p.110, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• Those who will may raise monuments of marble to perpetuate the fame of heroes. Those who will may build memorial halls to remind those who shall gather there in after times what manhood could do and dare for right, and what high examples of virtue and valor have gone before them. But let us make our offering to the ever-living soul. Let us build our benefactions in the ever-growing heart, that they shall live and rise and spread in blessing beyond our sight, beyond the ken of man and beyond the touch of time.

  Joshua Chamberlain

  Memorial Day, Hero, Heart

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• Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone can describe every thing which can be seen, and suggest every emotion which can be felt. Art reaches back into the babyhood of time, and is man's only lasting monument.

  William Morris Hunt

  Art, Book, Emotion

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• The most likely cause of a man's depression is his failure to be the man he thinks he should be

  Frank Pittman

  Thinking, Causes, Emotion

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• One can paint with two colors, and draw with one. Three, or four at most, have for centuries been enough men.

  Henri Michaux

  Two, Color, Three

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