Be A Man Quotes
The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction.
The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion
A democracy without faith is just a machine without power. Nothing can make it function except faith in itself, in the ordinary man and woman.
Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.
What every man who loves his country hopes for in his inmost heart: the suppression of half his compatriots.
What is it that every man seeks? To be secure, to be happy, to do what he pleases without restraint and without compulsion.
Let no young man delay the study of philosophy, and let no old man become weary of it; for it is never too early nor too late to care for the well-being of the soul.
At Cambridge, you have to kiss the vice-chancellor's fingers. But I missed out on that, 'cause I was doing a matinee. I don't want to kiss a strange man's fingers anyway.
Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?
The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring device against others.
I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. ... for years and years I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning.
Being for every man the touchstone of faith and love, the Eucharist, like on the Cross, divided the minds as soon as it was announced... Nothing engages a man as much as does the Eucharist
The wisest man I have ever known once said to me: 'Nine out of every ten people improve on acquaintance,' and I have found his words true.
When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them
Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.
One need not be a prophet to be aware of impending dangers. An accidental combination of experience and interest will often reveal events to one man under aspects which few yet see.
No one has a name in 'The Road.' Like Cormac McCarthy's novel from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as the man, the boy, the wife, the old man and the veteran.
Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as his most precious possession.
There must be some good in the life of battle, for so many good men have enjoyed being soldiers.
There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived.
Thinking man's crumpet? Well, it's more flattering than being a lobotomised man's crumpet, I suppose.
At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.
Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.
Let us ease the Roman people of their continual care, who think it long to await the death of an old man.
the Lord gives good many things twice over; but he don't give ye a mother but once.
And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon Little boy blue and the man in the moon.
The wisest man preaches no doctrines; he has no scheme; he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It is clear sky.
Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty.
Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of any help except by being kind, generous, and patient.
God puts the excess of hope in one man, in order that it may be a medicine to the man who is despondent.
Good men are not those who now and then do a good act, but men who join one good act to another.
Every man may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible with the possession of like liberties by every other man.
As a human being, I'm concerned about the world that I live in.So, I'm concerned about peace.I'm concerned about man's inhumanity to man. I'm concerned about the environment.
Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver, but less daring. Thus with seamen: he who goes the oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly.
