Quotes
Quotes about Men
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.
What men usually ask for when they pray to God is, that two and two may not make four.
Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.
As a first approximation, I define "belief" not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond understanding.
Woman, amends may never come to late.
Under your good correction, I have seen When, after execution, judgment hath Repented o'er his doom.
REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin.
Bad men are full of repentance.
Mental pleasure are never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by repetition, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.
Men get opinions as boys learn to spell, By reiteration chiefly.
Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation. Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living in the mouths of me. [Lat., Nemo me lacrymis decoret, nec funera fletu. Faxit cur? Volito vivu' per ora virum.]
That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time.
How many worthy men have we seen survive their own reputations!
Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.
It is easier for a woman to defend her virtue against men than her reputation against women.
A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are they are they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent being toward God.
