Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Blaise PascalThe worst men often give the best advice.
Francis BaconA wounded deer leaps the highest.
Emily DickinsonSome men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.
Theodore RooseveltThe sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
Blaise PascalLiterature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
C. S. LewisWars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
George S. PattonI tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
Jean-Paul SartreThere are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.
Nelson MandelaTrust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTruth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
Ralph Waldo EmersonO wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.
ChanakyaThere are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
Marcus Tullius CiceroAssociate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
George WashingtonHe was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
George EliotMany men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
Alexander PopeI think, in many people’s minds, the Confederate battle flag is not only a memorial to our ancestors, which is perfectly OK, but also a symbol of white superiority and an inclination for people to believe that even slavery would’ve been OK.
Jimmy CarterAs the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.
Helen KellerIs it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?
George EliotOne word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.
Charles SpurgeonMen and women may form associations for and among themselves and be governed by stipulations that are mutually acceptable.
Russell M. NelsonWhen the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
Alexander HamiltonGold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
Abraham LincolnJust cause you got the monkey off your back doesn’t mean the circus has left town.
George CarlinA serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.
Ernest HemingwayWomen deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.
Jordan PetersonI think there’s more women that watch me than men, but I don’t look at myself as just a minister to women. My ministry began that way, but I really feel like the Word of God is for everybody.
Joyce MeyerMen were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.
John RuskinThe fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.
Gilbert K. ChestertonExcept during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
George Bernard ShawViolent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
Mahatma GandhiI think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.
Ray BradburyIf your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
Khalil GibranMen who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
HeraclitusNo matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
H. L. MenckenThe world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
Samuel JohnsonMen are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
Albert CamusThe glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus, every boy is a challenge to his elders.
Herbert HooverWe are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhen I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.
Ernest HemingwayWhen my dad founded our church, he used either a globe or a map of the world behind him. It was symbolic of what Christ said: to go forth and preach hope to the world. We believe in the cross, but we just continued with the globe.
Joel OsteenMen do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
John SteinbeckBy its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinI noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: ‚This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.‘ Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.
Ronald ReaganThere is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.
Virginia WoolfMen exist for the sake of one another.
Marcus AureliusReality is a sliding door.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIf I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
Gilbert K. ChestertonDifferent men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
AristotleThere is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
EpicurusLong before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
C. S. LewisMen govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
Baruch SpinozaOld age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
Golda MeirIt is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics.
Stephen HawkingWhen I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
Abraham LincolnMost men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
Charles DickensIt is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.
Friedrich NietzscheA correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMen are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.
Niccolo MachiavelliBitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Maya Angelou