Men Quotes - Page 31

• 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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• Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

  Daniel Defoe

  Honesty, Literature, Knaves

  'The Serious Reflections of Robinson Crusoe' (1720) ch. 2

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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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• God help us, ma'am! Do you see what we saw? We saw that we'd been given a law to live by, a moral law, they called it, which punished those who observed it - for observing it. The more you tried to live up to it, the more you suffered; the more you cheated it, the bigger reward you got. Your honesty was like a tool left at the mercy of the next man's dishonesty. The honest ones paid, the dishonest collected. The honest lost, the dishonest won. How long could men stay good under this sort of a law of goodness?

  Ayn Rand

  Honesty, Law, Long

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1765, Penguin

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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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• Whatever men expect, they soon come to think they have a right to; the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on our part, be turned into a sense of injury. (senior devil speaking)

  C. S. Lewis

  Senior, Honesty, Disappointment

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• So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Business, Successful, Add

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin, William Duane (1834). “Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin”, p.478

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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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• Men should stop treating feminists like ladies, and instead treat them like the men they say they want to be.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Feminist, Want, He Man

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• If only mortals would learn how great it is to possess divine grace, how beautiful, how noble, how precious. How many riches it hides within itself, how many joys and delights! No one would complain about his cross or about troubles that may happen to him, if he would come to know the scales on which they are weighed when they are distributed to men.

  Rose of Lima

  Beautiful, Joy, Grace

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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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• You may talk about religion and speak about the Gospel, and say we have got the truth and the plan of salvation, and we have got the authority of the Priesthood; but if we are not honest, it does not amount to anything; for neither God nor honorable men love dishonesty. We must, therefore, be an honest people.

  George Q. Cannon

  Honesty, Honorable Man, People

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• Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.

  Rene Dubos

  Decision, Tree, Society

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• The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction, just as each man is alone in a dream.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Dream, Past, People

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• A wise man's questions contain half the answer.

  Solomon Ibn Gabirol

  Faith, Wise, Answers

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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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• 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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• 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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