Quotes
Quotes about Men
Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
War destroys men, but luxury destroys mankind; at once corrupts the body and the mind.
Liars are always most disposed to swear. [It., A giurar presti i mentitor son sempre.]
But that he wrought so high the specious tale, As manifested plainly 'twas a lie. [Lat., Se non volea pulir sua scusa tanto, Che la facesse di menzogna rea.]
I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted: I said in my haste, All men are liars.
A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth. [Lat., Mendaci homini ne verum quidem dicenti credere solemus.]
A good memory is needed once we have lied. [Fr., Il faut bonne memoire apres qu'on a menti.]
A liar is always lavish of oaths. [Fr., Un menteur est toujours prodigue de serments.]
Splendidly mendacious. [Lat., Splendide mendax.]
All men are born truthful and die liars.
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
We payt a person the complement of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.
Men have become tools of their tools.
A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. He that invents a machine augments the power of man and the well-being of mankind.
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.
Mammon led them on-- Mammon, the least erected Spirit that fell From Heaven: for even in Heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of Heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoyed In vision beatific.
To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
Be strong, and quit yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they have been to you: quit yourselves like men, and fight.
All sorts and conditions of men.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart--the best brain. The superior man ... stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers; and if you make them capable and sensible men, they will make themselves capable and sensible lawyers or physicians.
All the world's a stage, And all the men and merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts....
Men are used as they use others.
