He Man Quotes - Page 33

• The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings.

  Emile Durkheim

  Men, Meditation, Surroundings

  John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). “Suicide”, p.279, Simon and Schuster

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• There's some end at last for the man who follows a path; mere rambling is interminable.

  Seneca the Elder

  Journey, Men, Hiking

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• There are four types of men in this world: 1. The man who knows, and knows that he knows; he is wise, so consult him. 2. The man who knows, but doesn't know that he knows; help him not forget what he knows. 3. The man who knows not, and knows that he knows not; teach him. 4. Finally, there is the man who knows not but pretends that he knows; he is a fool, so avoid him.

  Solomon Ibn Gabirol

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

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• O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Unhappy, Unhappiness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.232, Harvard University Press

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• The man who does something under orders is not unhappy; he is unhappy who does something against his will.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Order, Unhappy

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• Whenever there is love the woman blossoms. Without love, the woman shrinks. The men who love power never fall in love. Even if they fall in love they keep themselves at a distance.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Distance, Fall

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• I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Integrity, Men, Ethics

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “Tailor blood and other notes and comments”

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• The man who goes fishing gets something more than the fish he catches.

  Mary Astor

  Men, Fishing, Fishes

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• Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Suffering, Rivals

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• No one is more liable to make mistakes than he who acts only on reflexion.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Inspirational, Mistake, Reflection

  "La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims".

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• Happy the man who can count his sufferings.

  Ovid

  Men, Suffering, Counting

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• The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.

  Richard J. Needham

  Inspiring, Honesty, Men

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• When one of your children tells a lie, be honest with him; tell him that you have told hundreds of them yourself. Tell him it is not the best way; that you have tried it. Tell him as the man did in Maine when his boy left home: "John, honesty is the best policy; I have tried both."

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Children, Honesty, Lying

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.210, Library of Alexandria

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• Men should stop treating feminists like ladies, and instead treat them like the men they say they want to be.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Men, Feminist, Want

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• Motivational Quotes on: Honesty, Success, Kind
  There was a tremendous modesty in the man as he spoke, a quietness and dignity. There was a simplicity and honesty and unselfconsciousness, and a tremendous peace.

  Walter Russell

  Honesty, Men, Simplicity

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• Circumstance does not make the man. Circumstance reveals man to himself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Men, Discovery

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• To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

  William Blake

  Nature, Eye, Science

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.136, Penguin

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• The most likely cause of a man's depression is his failure to be the man he thinks he should be

  Frank Pittman

  Men, Thinking, Causes

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• Sir Hiram Maxim is a genuine and typical example of the man of science, romantic, excitable, full of real but somewhat obvious poetry, a little hazy in logic and philosophy, but full of hearty enthusiasm and an honorable simplicity. He is, as he expresses it, "an old and trained engineer," and is like all of the old and trained engineers I have happened to come across, a man who indemnifies himself for the superhuman or inhuman concentration required for physical science by a vague and dangerous romanticism about everything else.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Philosophy, Real, Science

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• Nothing is more sterile or lamentable than the man content to live within himself.

  Harold Pinter

  Men

  Harold Pinter (1969). “Tea Party and the Basement: Two Plays”, p.14, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.

  George Eliot

  Children, Men, Needs

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.170, Wordsworth Editions

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• I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.

  William Wycherley

  Kings, Men, Titles

  Mr. William Wycherley, Mr. John Crown, Colley Cibber “A Collection of the Best English Plays, Chosen Out of All the Best Authors..: Vol. IX.”

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• America is the place where you cannot kill your government by killing the men who conduct it.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, America, Killing

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1990). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Freedom, Men, Doe

  Benjamin Franklin (2017). “The Complete Works of Benjamin Franklin: Letters and Papers on Electricity, Philosophical Subjects, General Politics, Moral Subjects & the Economy, American Subjects Before & During the Revolution”, p.812, Madison & Adams

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• Shame on the men who can court exemption from present trouble and expense at the price of their own posterity's liberty!

  Samuel Adams

  Men, Liberty, Trouble

  Samuel Adams (1968). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1773-1777: 1773-1777”

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