Man Quotes

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.

Where there is no experience the wise man is silent.

God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and insists on lighting up the rays of science in a fellow’s head whose skull is impervious and inaccessible by any other way than a positive fracture with a cudgel.

It is only the belief and the confidence we have in a God why man is able to understand his own social institutions, and move and live like a rational human being.

The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.

Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.

So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.

Our world is fast succumbing to the activities of men and women who would stake the future of our species on beliefs that should not survive an elementary school education.

A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.