Men Quotes - Page 35

• Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.

  Samuel Johnson

  Sloth, Calling, Laziness

  Samuel Johnson, Francis Pearson Walesby, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson: Reviews, politica. tracts, and lives of eminent persons”, p.285

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• Man like every other animal is by nature indolent. If nothing spurs him on, then he will hardly think, and will behave from habit like an automaton.

  Albert Einstein

  Animal, Thinking, Sloth

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.24, Open Road Media

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• No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Taken, Knowing, Sloth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.353

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• It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.

  Aeschylus

  Fallen, Mankind, Kicks

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (Agamemnon, 884; adapted), 1922.

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• Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing.

  Antonio Porchia

  Mankind, Seems

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• Man is rated the highest animal, at least among all animals who returned the questionnaire.

  Robert Breault

  Animal, Mankind, Miscellaneous

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• Man talks about everything, and he talks about everything as though the understanding of everything were all inside him.

  Antonio Porchia

  Understanding, Mankind

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• First God created time; then God created man that man might, in the course of time, perfect himself; then God decided that He'd better create eternity.

  Robert Breault

  Perfect, Might, Firsts

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• I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character... by which to distinguish between Man and Ape. I myself most assuredly know of none.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Character, World, Demand

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• Man desired concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live easy and content; but nature compels him to leave ease... and throw himself into roils and labors.

  Immanuel Kant

  Desire, Ease, Want

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• So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.

  Russell Baker

  Science, Moon, Rocks

  1969 Editoral pages, the New York Times, 21 Jul.

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• Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Limits, Interest, Cease

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.406, Library of America

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• There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things.

  Hal Borland

  Time, Distance, Clouds

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• The world is a great volume, and man the index of that book; even in the body of man, you may turn to the whole world.

  John Donne

  Book, World, Body

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.484

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• Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.

  Samuel Johnson

  Respect, Giving, Lectures

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1825). “The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals”, p.119

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• What, in the devil's name, is the use of respectability, with never so many gigs and silver spoons, if thou inwardly art the pitifulness of all men?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Respect, Art, Names

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• I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wants.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Respect, Goal, Want

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• Wise and prudent men and intelligent conservatives have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing time.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Life, Wise, Intelligent

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.390, Best Books on

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• The praise that comes of love does not make us vain, but humble rather. Knowing what we are, the pride that shines in our mother's eyes as she looks at us is about the most pathetic thing a man has to face, but he would be a devil altogether if it did not burn some of the sin out of him.

  James M. Barrie

  Mother, Eye, Humble

  James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little Minister (Illustrated Edition)”, p.27, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.

  Philip Sidney

  Fear, Past, Thinking

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.100

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• Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature?

  Marcus Aurelius

  Change, Universal, Suitable

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.38, Lulu.com

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• Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.

  John Dryden

  Mother, Eye, Sight

  John Dryden, George Rapall Noyes (1950). “The poetical works of Dryden”

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• Behind all these men you have to do with, behind officers, and government, and people even, there is the country herself, your country, and . . . you belong to her as you belong to your own mother. Stand by her, boy, as you would stand by your mother.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Mother, Country, Boys

  Edward Everett Hale, Hsuan L. Hsu, Susan Kalter (2010). “Two Texts by Edward Everett Hale: "The Man Without a Country" and Philip Nolan's Friends”, p.32, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Sometimes I stand there going, 'I'm not doing any of this right!' And then I get this big man belch out of her, and I go, 'Ah, we accomplished this together.'

  Christina Applegate

  Pregnancy, Motherhood, Together

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• Once a man gets a fixed idea, there's nothing to be done.

  Anton Chekhov

  Ideas, Done, Fixed

  Anton Chekhov (2012). “Five Great Short Stories”, p.75, Courier Corporation

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