Man Quotes

Since man’s highest mission on earth is to spiritualize everything, it is his excrement in particular that needs it most.

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.

Man, like the bridge, was designed to carry the load of the moment, not the combined weight of a year at once.

I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.

The Masonic system represents a stupendous and beautiful fabric, founded on universal purity, to rule and direct our passions, to have faith and love in God, and charity toward man.

No wise man ever took a handgun to a gunfight.

I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs.

Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.

It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready.

No man is ever just one thing.