Men Quotes - Page 32

• 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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• [In] death at least there would be one profit; it would no longer be necessary to eat, to drink, to pay taxes, or to [offend] others; and as a man lies in his grave not one year, but hundreds and thousands of years, the profit was enormous. The life of man was, in short, a loss, and only his death a profit.

  Anton Chekhov

  Death, Lying, Loss

  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1929). “The Works of Anton Chekhov”

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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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• I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.

  William Wycherley

  Kings, Titles, He Man

  Mr. William Wycherley, Mr. John Crown, Colley Cibber “A Collection of the Best English Plays, Chosen Out of All the Best Authors..: Vol. IX.”

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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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• The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Successful, Ideas, Goal

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “An Iron Will, He Can Who Thinks He Can & Pushing To The Front (Wisdom & Empowerment Series): How to Achieve Self-Reliance Which Leads to Vigorous Self-Faith, Personal Growth & Success”, p.288, e-artnow

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• It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutalized his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.

  Robert Southey

  Dream, Nature, Sparks

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• Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life.

  Mark Twain

  Opportunity, Gambling, Doors

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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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• Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase "It is the busiest man who has time to spare."

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Work, Phrases, Facts

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• A man's intentions should be allowed in some respects to plead for his actions.

  George Washington

  Action, Intention, Should

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1756). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.532

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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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• Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.

  Quintilian

  Change, Money, Fortune

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 289-93, De Institutione Oratoria, CCLX, 1922.

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• I like when my man is worldly, know the finer things in life, is well traveled, and educated. It's important to me that he's able to talk to all types of people, from doctors to dishwashers.

  Kiana Tom

  Things In Life, Doctors, People

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• When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

  Muhammad Ali

  Peace, Boxing, World

  Twitter post from Jun 10, 2011

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• No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due to his neighbor.

  Saint Augustine

  Ease, Forget, Neighbor

  Saint Augustine of Hippo, Aeterna Press (1931). “The City of God”, p.1710, Aeterna Press

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• We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. It may be the very recognition of all men as our brothers that accounts for the sibling rivalry, and even enmity, we have toward so many of them.

  Peter De Vries

  Love, Brother, Sibling

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• There is a demon in technology. It was put there by man and man will have to exorcise it before technological civilization can achieve the eighteenth-century ideal of humane civilized life.

  Rene Dubos

  Technology, Civilization, Demon

  "A God Within". Book by René Dubos, 1972.

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