Men Quotes - Page 23

• Art and religion (they are the same thing, in the end, of course) have given man the only happiness he has ever had.

  Willa Cather

  Art, Ends, Given

  "The Professor's House". Book by Willa Cather, 1925.

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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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• 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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• Wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and blesses which he is loved and blessed by.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Blessed, Numbers, Wealth

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.455, Lulu.com

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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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• 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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• I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life Lesson, Tolls, Remains

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2933, Simon and Schuster

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• Let us now relieve the Romans of their fears by the death of a feeble old man.

  Hannibal

  Old Man, Last Words

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• The inventor and the research man are confused because they both examine results of physical or chemical operations. But they are exact opposites, mirror images of one another. The research man does something and does not care [exactly] what it is that happens, he measures whatever it is. The inventor wants something to happen, but does not care how it happens or what it is that happens if it is not what he wants.

  Reginald Fessenden

  Confused, Mirrors, Opposites

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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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• One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits.

  Nathanael Emmons

  Success, Attention, Calling

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• Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Light, Nerves, Moral

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• A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Hands, Fool, Pebbles

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• Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  No Friends, Dependence On Others, Depends

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• In our family we don't divorce our men - we bury them.

  Ruth Gordon

  Divorce, Our Family, Funny Divorce

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• If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.

  Seneca the Elder

  Inspirational, Life, Wind

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• America is the place where you cannot kill your government by killing the men who conduct it.

  Woodrow Wilson

  America, Killing, He Man

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1990). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, and then go straight forward.

  William Wilberforce

  Heaven, Have Faith, Turns

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• The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat, men to whom a crisis, which intimidates and paralyzes the majority, comes as graceful and beloved as a bride!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Majority, Hearing, Beloved

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• And to the rest of the world
  God gave you shoes to fit you
  So put 'em on and wear 'em
  Be yourself man, be proud of who you are
  Even if it sounds corny
  Don't ever let anyone tell you you ain't beautiful

  Eminem

  Beautiful, Being Yourself, Rap

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• It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

  Norman Douglas

  Wise, Lying, Fool

  Norman Douglas (1957). “Siren Land: And Fountains in the Sand”, London : Secker & Warburg

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• Man, I smashed her like an Idaho Potato

  Mos Def

  Sex, Dirty, Rap

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• My man slangs rocks like up the block, 143RD and Amsterdam by the smoke shop

  Redman

  Block, Rap, Rocks

  Song: Rated 'r', Album: Whut? Thee Album

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• The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible.

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Woe, Causes

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• Man can find meaning in life only through devoting himself to society.

  Albert Einstein

  Meaning Of Life, Find Me, Meaning Life

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.10, Open Road Media

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