Men Quotes - Page 22

• If you want to take the meaning of the word integrity and reduce it to its simplest terms, you'd conclude that a man of integrity is a promise keeper. When he gives you his word. You can take it to the bank. His word is good.

  Bill McCartney

  Honesty, Integrity, Giving

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• People generally think that it is the world, the environment, external relationships, which stand in one's way, in the way of ones' good fortune... and at bottom it is always man himself that stands in his own way.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Honesty, Thinking, People

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• Consider a man riding a bicycle. Whoever he is, we can say three things about him. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. Most important of all, we know that if at any point between the beginning and the end of his journey he stops moving and does not get off the bicycle he will fall off it. That is a metaphor for the journey through life of any living thing, and I think of any society of living things.

  William Golding

  Life, Moving, Fall

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• 'Tis certain that a serious attention to the sciences and liberal arts softens and humanizes the temper, and cherishes those fine emotions in which true virtue and honor consist. It rarely, very rarely happens that a man of taste and learning is not, at least, an honest man, whatever frailties may attend him.

  David Hume

  Art, Honesty, Science

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• Man's creative struggle, his search for wisdom and truth, is a love story.

  Iris Murdoch

  Struggle, Creative, Stories

  Iris Murdoch (2003). “The Black Prince”, p.23, Penguin

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• An honest man's pillow is his peace of mind.

  John Mellencamp

  Honesty, Mind, Pillow

  Song: Minutes To Memories, Album: Scarecrow

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• Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.

  Marcel Proust

  Imagination, Suffering

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• Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

  Samuel Johnson

  Imagination, Would Be, Arms

  "The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides".

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• A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Power, Hands, Tools

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Did you get your money by fraud? By pandering to men's vices or men's stupidity? By catering to fools, in the hope of getting more than your ability deserves? By lowering your standards? By doing work you despise for purchasers you scorn? If so, then your money will not give you a moment's or a penny's worth of joy. Then all the things you buy will become, not a tribute to you, but a reproach; not an achievement, but a reminder of shame.

  Ayn Rand

  Money, Giving, Stupidity

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.315, Hamilton Books

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• Life at court does not satisfy a man, but it keeps him from being satisfied with anything else.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Doe, Ears, Court

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• Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Speech, Parole, Given

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• Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man.

  Ayn Rand

  Hero, Heroism, Reverence

  The Fountainhead pt. 4, ch. 14 (1943)

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• The loss of wealth is loss of dirt,
  As sages in all times assert;
  The happy man's without a shirt.

  John Heywood

  Happiness, Laughter, Loss

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations". Book by John Bartlett, 1919.

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• One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.

  Mary Pickford

  Loss, Cutting, Views

  Mary Pickford (1955). “Sunshine and shadow”

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• The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it.

  Honore de Balzac

  Illegal, Profit

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• A man whose extraordinary reputation thus lifts him up to the notice and observation of mankind, draws a multitude of eyes upon him, that will narrowly inspect every part of him.

  Joseph Addison

  Eye, Reputation, Draws

  "The Spectator: with notes and illustrations".

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• A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof. The throwing out [of] malicious imputations against any character leaves a stain, which no after-refutation can wipe out. To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said. The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.

  William Hazlitt

  Lying, Character, Imagination

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.75

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• No one is more liable to make mistakes than he who acts only on reflexion.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Inspirational, Mistake, Reflection

  "La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims".

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• In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Cities, Desire, Together

  Benjamin Disraeli, Sheila Mary Smith (1981). “Sybil: or, the two nations”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Garden, Cities, Ends

  Alexander Maclaren (1902). “The Secret of Power: And Other Sermons”

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• It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been believed in during the long history of medical folly have been such as caused acute suffering to the patient. When anesthetics were discovered, pious people considered them an attempt to evade the will of God. It was pointed out, however, that when God extracted Adam's rib He put him into a deep sleep. This proved that anesthetics are all right for men; women, however, ought to suffer, because of the curse of Eve.

  Bertrand Russell

  Pain, Sleep, Science

  Bertrand Russell (1972). “Atheism: collected essays, 1943-1949”, Arno Pr

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• You don't have to preach honesty to men with creative purpose. Let a human being throw the engines of his soul into the making of something, and the instinct of workmanship will take care of his honesty.

  Walter Lippmann

  Honesty, Creative, Soul

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• Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Honesty, Principles, May

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.53, Modern Library

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• Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest men, with understanding sufficient for their stations. No duty is at the same time more difficult to fulfil. The knowledge of character possessed by a single individual is of necessity limited. To seek out the best through the whole Union, we must resort to the information which from the best of men, acting disinterestedly and with the purest motives, is sometimes incorrect.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Honesty, Character, Hands

  Letter to Elias Shipman and Merchants of New Haven, July 12, 1801.

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