Men Quotes - Page 22

• No man can ever raise above that that which he aims.

  Archibald Alexander Hodge

  Aspiration, Aim, Raises

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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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• 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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• Motivational Quotes on: Honesty, Success, Kind
  There was a tremendous modesty in the man as he spoke, a quietness and dignity. There was a simplicity and honesty and unselfconsciousness, and a tremendous peace.

  Walter Russell

  Honesty, Simplicity, Dignity

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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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• 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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• Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.

  Rene Dubos

  Decision, Tree, Society

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• We seek our happiness outside ourselves, and in the opinion of men we know to be flatterers, insincere, unjust, full of envy, caprice and prejudice.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Envy, Unjust, Prejudice

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• It was the transcendent fortitude and steadfastness of these men who in adversity and in suffering through the darkest hour of our history held faithful to an ideal. Here men endured that a nation might live.

  Herbert Hoover

  Memorial Day, Adversity, Faithful

  United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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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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• Circumstance does not make the man. Circumstance reveals man to himself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Discovery, Self

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• A man who is swayed by negative emotions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Negative, May

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• Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply.

  Norman Borlaug

  Agriculture, Survival, Inability

  Norman Ernest Borlaug (1971). “Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad”

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• God created the first man, whom he called Adam. Then God created a woman, whom he named Eve; and this man and woman were given the power from Jehovah God to reproduce their kind, that is to say, to cause conception and birth of children.

  Joseph Franklin Rutherford

  Children, Jehovah, Firsts

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• Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.

  F. H. Bradley

  Wife, Pity, Adam

  "Aphorisms". Book by F. H. Bradley, no. 94, 1930.

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• If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves?

  Mary Astell

  Birth, Slave, Born

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• We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Birth, Speak, Born

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.340, eKitap Projesi

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• He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Wisdom, Quitting

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Alexander Chalmers (1810). “The idler”, p.229

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• Sooner or later, a man if he is wise, discovers that life is a mixture of good days and bad, victory and defeat, give and take.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Wise, Life Lesson, Good Day

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• The chief knowledge that's man on from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Book, Reading

  "A little book in C major".

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• Sir Hiram Maxim is a genuine and typical example of the man of science, romantic, excitable, full of real but somewhat obvious poetry, a little hazy in logic and philosophy, but full of hearty enthusiasm and an honorable simplicity. He is, as he expresses it, "an old and trained engineer," and is like all of the old and trained engineers I have happened to come across, a man who indemnifies himself for the superhuman or inhuman concentration required for physical science by a vague and dangerous romanticism about everything else.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Philosophy, Real, Science

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• Nothing is more sterile or lamentable than the man content to live within himself.

  Harold Pinter

  He Man

  Harold Pinter (1969). “Tea Party and the Basement: Two Plays”, p.14, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.

  George Eliot

  Children, Needs, Done

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.170, Wordsworth Editions

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• Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Pain, War, Animal

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.214, Oxford University Press

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• Man needs so little... yet he begins wanting so much.

  Louis L'Amour

  Needs, Littles

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