Men Quotes - Page 27

• The vices of some men are magnificent.

  Charles Lamb

  Vices, Magnificent

  Charles Lamb, Will MacDonald, Mary Lamb, Charles Edmund Brock, Winifred Green (1903). “The Works of Charles Lamb: Essays and sketches”

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• Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Passion, Thinking, Ideas

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• Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form our judgment.

  Isaac Watts

  Reading, Ideas, Meditation

  Isaac Watts (1813). “The Works of the Rev. Isaac Watts D.D. in Nine Volumes”, p.25

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• God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth.

  George MacDonald

  Clouds, Unfinished Work, Skills

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• A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.

  William Hazlitt

  Journey, Long, Littles

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• What is merit? The opinion one man entertains of another.

  Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

  Merit, Opinion, One Man

  In Thomas Carlyle 'Shooting Niagara: and After?' (1867) ch. 8

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• Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

  Blaise Pascal

  Lying, Thinking, Merit

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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• Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.

  Alexander Pope

  Thinking, Honor, Merit

  Alexander Pope (2015). “An Essay on Criticism”, p.14, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself.

  Oscar Wilde

  Baby, Time, Rights

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Wilde Complete Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest; A Woman of No Importance; Salome; The Duchess of Padua; Vera, or the Nihilists; A Florentine Tragedy; La Sainte Courtisane”, p.557, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Giving, Advice, Facts

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 93, 1678.

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• The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize.

  Bruce Barton

  Life, Faith, Realizing

  Bruce Barton (1927). “What Can a Man Believe?”, McClelland & Stewart

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• A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.

  Elias Canetti

  Lice, Add, Literature

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• The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth sense which enables you to enjoy the other five.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Money, Devil, Enjoy

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• Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Children, Childhood, Fatherhood

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• The silence of snow, thought the man sitting just behind the bus driver.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Snow, Silence, Sitting

  Orhan Pamuk (2006). “Snow”, p.3, Vintage

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• Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.

  Erich Fromm

  School, Technology, Machines

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• Show me the man who has enjoyed his schooldays and I will show you a bully and a bore.

  Robert Morley

  School, Bully, He Man

  Robert Morley, Sewell Stokes (1967). “Robert Morley: a reluctant autobiography”

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• Opinionum enim commenta delet dies; naturæ judicia confirmat.
  Time destroys the groundless conceits of men; it confirms decisions founded on reality.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Time, Reality, Decision

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• The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Personal Growth, Study

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• I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Happiness, Order, Understanding

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1927). “Tusculan Disputations”

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• While the sick man has life, there is hope.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Hope, Sick, There Is Hope

  "Epistulae ad Atticum (Letters to Atticus)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book IX, Chapter 10, Section 4), 68-43 BC.

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• It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Arrogant, World, Opinion

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Cyrus R. Edmonds (1863). “Three Books of Offices; Or, Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate. Literally Translated, with Notes, Designed to Exhibit a Comparative View of the Opinions of Cicero, and Those of Modern Moralists and Ethical Philosophers”, p.50

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• For hardly any man dances when sober, unless he is insane. Nor does he dance while alone, nor at a respectable and moderate party. Dancing is the final phase of a wild party with fancy decorations and a multitude of delights.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Dance, Party, Dancing

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• A man is sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through fear of being thought to have but little.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Generosity, Littles, Sometimes

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.34, Applewood Books

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• A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Practice, Needs, Finding Happiness

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