Men Quotes - Page 1113

The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.

History doesn't mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man.

A man's college and university degrees mean nothing to me until I see what he is able to do with them.

Progress is not made by pulling off a series of stunts. Each step has to be regulated. A man cannot expect to progress without thinking.

The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.

A man doesn't dream about a woman because he thinks her "mysterious"; he decides that she is "mysterious" to justify his dreaming of her.

Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men that died for them.

Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters?

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

Simplicity is the law of nature for men as well as for flowers.

Life consists with Wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him. One who pressed forward incessantly and never rested from his labors, who grew fast and made infinite demands on life, would always find himself in a new country or wilderness, and surrounded by the raw material of life. He would be climbing over the prostrate stems of primitive forest trees.

It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.

Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.

Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.

Nature's instructions are always slow; those of men are generally premature.

From the moment we claim the truth of being the beloved, we are faced with the call to become who we are.

A man who knows neither how to travel nor how to keep a journal has put together this travel journal. But at the moment of signing he is suddenly afraid. So he casts the first stone. Here.

To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.

Men don't achieve truth because they lack humility and love of truth. They won't criticize their own beliefs. Truth would overwhelm them.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.

I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend.

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

Pretty women without religion are like flowers without perfume.