Be A Man Quotes

Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.

Only free men are thoroughly grateful one to another.

Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.

The people are the foundation of the nation. Our only chance for a lasting peace on earth: the release of the strength of the common man.

A foolish man is always doing, Yet much remains to be done.

The philosophers of antiquity taught contempt for work, that degradation of the free man, the poets sang of idleness, that gift from the Gods.

Oh - You're a very bad man!" Oh, no my dear. I'm a very good man. I'm just a very bad Wizard.

Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement.

It is pleasing to be pointed at with the finger and to have it said, "There goes the man." [Lat., At pulchrum est digito monstrari et dicier his est.]

Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself

If you can create even the illusion of high profitability for a few years, then when the thing collapses you can walk out of the wreckage a very rich man.

The typical socialist... a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaler and often with vegetarian leanings.

I mean, look, no matter how you feel about Bush, watching him speak is difficult. It's like- it's like watching a drunk man cross an icy street.

Her beauty was sold for an old man's gold. She's a bird in a gilded cage.

The work of a man is the explanation of the man.

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.

Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.

A thief, though rich, will continue to steal, but an honest man, though poor, will ever seek to pay his debts.

As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.

Religion is like the fashion, one man wears his doublet slashed, another lashed, another plain; but every man has a doublet; so every man has a religion. We differ about the trimming.

Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.

You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you

There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!

Every man is the artisan of his own fortune.

There were angry men confronting me and I caught the flashing of defiant eyes, but above me and within me, there was a spirit stronger than them all.

Of all parts of wisdom, the practice is the best. Socrates was esteemed the wisest man of his time because he turned his acquired knowledge into morality, and aimed at goodness more than greatness.

Every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind it if you want to see it.

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavour to understand him.

During the year I stood there I had known was the loss of my heart. While I was in love I was the happiest man on earth.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

Every man has been made by God in order to acquire knowledge and contemplate.

All excess is ill; but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous, and mad.

I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common.

I always run into strong women who are looking for weak men to dominate them.

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.

One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.

There are more ways of killing a man's love than by strangling it to death, but that's the usual way.

The scent of flowers does not travel against the wind; but the odor of good people travels; even against the wind: a good man pervades every place.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior...

And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.

Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works.

I mean one of the basic rules when you're acting is that you mustn't stand in judgement on a character, you mustn't say Hitler was a bad man because you can't act in that way.

Three things are necessary to make every man great,every nation great1.Conviction of the powers of goodness.2.Absence of jealousy and suspicion.3.Helping all who are trying to be and do good.

I'm not a huge comic book fan, but I'm a closet fan of certain Marvel heroes, two of those being Iron Man, and the other being Guardians of the Galaxy, which I'm looking forward to.

The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken every man to the active prosecution of whatever he is desirous to perform.

Only the basic situations in life occur only once, never to return. For a man to be a man, he must be fully aware of this never-to-return. (p.148)

Let God be true but every man a liar" is the language of true faith

Teach a child good manners during babyhood.