Men World Quotes

The more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth. ~ Francis Bacon

We need female advocates. I'd love to live in a world where there are as many women in parliament as men. ~ Emma Watson

Unless souls are saved, nothing is saved; there can be no world peace without soul peace. ~ Fulton J. Sheen

In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the world's Priest;
guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time. ~ Thomas Carlyle

With the best equipment in the world the man with poor judgment is in mortal danger. ~ Royal Robbins

The world proceeds from the same spirit as the body of man. It is a remoter and inferior incarnation of God, a projection of God in the unconscious. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm a low-tech man in a high-tech world. ~ Phil Robertson

It should be carefully noted that Jesus did not say, "I am one of the equally good ways" or "I am a better way than the others, I am an aspect of truth; I am a fragment of the life." Instead, His claim was absolute, and allegiance to Him as the Savior of the world, was to take precedence over all the claims of men and religions. ~ Walter Martin

A wonder then it must needs be,-that there should be any Man found so stupid and forsaken of reason as to persuade himself, that this most beautiful and adorned world was or could be produced by the fortuitous concourse of atoms. ~ John Ray

There seems scarcely any limit to what could be done in the way of producing a good world, if only men would use science wisely. ~ Bertrand Russell

In the operative opinion of the world, he who is already fully provided with what is necessary for him, that man shall have more;while he who is deplorably destitute of the same, he shall have taken away from him even that which he hath. Yet the world vows it is a very plain, downright matter-of-fact, plodding, humane sort of world. ~ Herman Melville

There must be a new world if there is to be any world at all! ... These days of universal death must be days of universal new birth, if the ruin is not to be total and final! It is Time to make the dullest man consider; and ask himself, Whence he came? Whither he is bound? ~ Thomas Carlyle

Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good as someone else. ~ William, Saroyan

What made America great was her ability to transform her own dream into hope for all mankind. America did not tell the millions of men and women who came from every country in the world and who -- with their hands, their intelligence and their heart -- built the greatest nation in the world: 'Come, and everything will be given to you.' She said: 'Come, and the only limits to what you'll be able to achieve will be your own courage and your own talent. ~ Nicolas Sarkozy

A fool will study for twenty or thirty years and learn how to do something, but a wise man will study for twenty or thirty minutes and become an expert. In this world, it isn't ability that counts, but authority. ~ Barry Hughart

I mean, before this, I would have said playing Bill Gates, because I'm playing someone obviously who is alive and is the richest man in the world. That was a heavy responsibility. ~ Anthony Michael Hall

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world. ~ Charles Caleb Colton

We cannot segregate the human heart from the environment outside us and say that once one of these is reformed everything will be improved. Man is organic with the world. His inner life moulds the environment and is itself also deeply affected by it. The one acts upon the other and every abiding change in the life of man is the result of these mutual reactions. ~ Shoghi Effendi

Men control the world, but women control the men. ~ Sherry Argov

Kindness, sweetest of the small notes in the world's ache, most modest & gentle of the elements entered man before history and became his daily connection, let no man tell you otherwise. ~ Carl Rakosi

A thousand of old man are just able to dream, but a young man is able to change the world! ~ Sukarno

All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room. ~ Blaise Pascal

The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world. ~ Thomas A. Edison

Character is money; and according as the man earns or spends the money, money in turn becomes character. As money is the most evident power in the world's uses, so the use that he makes of money is often all that the world knows about a man. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him. ~ Samuel Johnson

It is a man's world at the top, at the bottom, and in between. Men are in the catbird seat as far as income, opportunity, status, and power are concerned. This is the way it always has been and, as far as men are concerned, it is the way it always should be. ~ Joyce Brothers

God has not revealed all things to man and has entrusted us with but a fragment of His mighty work. But He who directs all things, who has established and laid the foundation of the world, who has clothed Himself with Creation, He is greater and better than that which He has wrought. Hidden from our eyes, He can only be reached by the spirit. ~ Seneca The Younger

All men who have moved the world have been men who would stand true to their conscience. ~ David O. McKay

I did believe, from my experience of life and of looking at the world, that men hated women. ~ Nuala O'Faolain

Man is the microcosm: I am my world. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

I studied the Koran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as that of Muhammad ~ Alexis De Tocqueville

If the world is to change for the better it must start with a change in human consciousness, in the very humanness of modern man. ~ Vaclav Havel

The East and the West in the spring of the world shall blend / As a man and a woman that plight / Their troth in the warm spring night. ~ Richard Hovey

Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world ~ Wallace Stevens

It is alone that part of the external universe which we call material which acts on man through his senses - that part of which we ordinarily feel our knowledge to be the surest; but in reality, strangely enough, as will soon appear, this is one of the aspects of the external world, of which we can know nothing. ~ Richard Maurice Bucke

This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense the whole; only this whole is not so constituted that it can be surveyed in one single glance. This, as we know, is what the Brahmins [wise men or priests in the Vedic tradition] express in that sacred, mystic formula which is yet really so simple and so clear; tat tvam asi, this is you. Or, again, in such words as I am in the east and the west, I am above and below, I am this entire world. ~ Erwin Schrodinger

Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising. ~ Plautus

Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings. ~ R.D. Laing

Unlike modern man, who dreams of the world he will make, pre-modern man dreamed of the world he left. ~ Robert Heilbroner

This love of beauty is Taste. Others have the same love in such excess, that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

When a great war has cut off the young men of a nation it never can be told thereafter what losses of scholars, poets, thinkers and great designers the country and the world have suffered. ~ James Vila Blake

Slowly ... the truth is dawning upon women, and still more slowly upon men, that woman is no stepchild of nature, no Cinderella of fate to be dowered only by fairies and the Prince; but that for her and in her, as truly as for and in man, life has wrought its great experiences, its master attainments, its supreme human revelations of the stuff of which worlds are made. ~ Anna Garlin Spencer

I will lead mankind into a new world! You cannot kill me! No man can murder me! ~ Cesare Borgia

Man was an accident on this world or it would have been made better for him! ~ Brian Aldiss

I have always known that writing fiction had little effect on the world; that if it did, young men would not have gone to war after The Iliad. ~ Andre Dubus

If a man really loves a woman, of course he wouldn't marry her for the world if he were not quite sure that he was the best person she could possibly marry. ~ Geoffrey Chaucer

You are discontented with the world because you can't get just the small things that suit your pleasure, not because it's a world where myriads of men and women are ground by wrong and misery, and tainted with pollution. ~ George Eliot

He turned from the sight of human ignorance and human fate and the sea eating the ground we stand on, which, had he been able to contemplate it fixedly might have led to something; and found consolation in trifles so slight compared with the august theme just now before him that he was disposed to slur that comfort over, to deprecate it, as if to be caught happy in a world of misery was for an honest man the most despicable of crimes. ~ Virginia Woolf

A man, so to speak, who is not able to bow to his own conscience every morning is hardly in a condition to respectfully salute the world at any other time of the day. ~ Douglas William Jerrold

Our most merciful Father, seeing us to be oppressed and overwhelmed with the curse of the law ... sent his only Son into the world and laid upon him all the sins of all men, saying, 'You be Peter that denier, Paul that persecutor, blasphemer and cruel oppressor, David that adulterer, that sinner who ate the apple in Paradise, that thief who hung upon the cross, and briefly, you be the person who has committed the sins of all men. See therefore that you pay and satisfy for them.' ~ Martin Luther

If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king. ~ Orson Pratt

I own no property and yet I feel that I am perhaps the richest man in the world. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

There is but one world common for those who are awake, but when men are asleep, each turns away into a world of his own. ~ Heraclitus

Reason and faith cannot be separated without diminishing the capacity of men and women to know themselves, the world and God in an appropriate way. ~ Pope John Paul II

If you are pure, if you are strong, you, one man are equal to the whole world. ~ Swami Vivekananda

I've had my breath taken away when a fan told me since watching my speech she has stopped herself being beaten up by her father. I've been stunned by the amount of men in my life that have contacted me since my speech to tell me to keep going, and that they want to make sure that their daughters will still be alive to see a world where women have power and equality, economically and politically. ~ Emma Watson

Lastly no woman should marry a teetotaller, or a man who does not smoke. It is not for nothing that this "ignoble tobagie" as Michelet calls it, spreads all over the world. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Who is king in the world of the blind when there isn't even a one eyed man? ~ John Kenneth Galbraith

Whereas, according to the declaration of that true man of the world Talleyrand, the use of language is to conceal the thoughts; this is to declare in the present instance, when I say I am not able to bear much talking, it means really, and without any mistake, or equivocation, or oblique meaning, or implication, or subterfuge, or omission, that I am not able; being at present rather weak in the head, and able to work no more. ~ Michael Faraday

If all men labored hard every hour of the twenty-four, they could not do all the work of the world. ~ Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch

For this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good enough. ~ Edward Abbey

They [the founders] proclaimed to all the world the revolutionary doctrine of the divine rights of the common man. That doctrine has ever since been the heart of the American faith. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

What I hate is the thought of being under a man's thumb," I had told Doctor Nolan. "A man doesn't have a worry in the world, while I've got a baby hanging over my head like a big stick, to keep me in line. ~ Sylvia Plath

The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other. ~ Alexander Smith

Literally, the Bible is a gigantic myth, a narrative extending over the whole of time from creation to apocalypse, unified by a body of recurring imagery that "freezes" into a single metaphor cluster, the metaphors all being identified with the body of the Messiah, the man who is all men, the totality logoi who is one Logos, the grain of sand that is the world. ~ Northrop Frye

It's tough being out there doing what I'm doing in what they call a man's world. ~ Koko Taylor

The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative man. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The salvation of the world is in man's suffering. ~ William Faulkner

[Garry Winogrand] was a bull of a man and the world his china shop. ~ Lee Friedlander

The men who have most fully illustrated Christ in their character and have most powerfully affected the world for Him have been men who spend so much time with God as to make it a notable feature in their lives. ~ Edward McKendree Bounds

Busy remaking the world, man forgot to remake himself. ~ Andrei Platonov

He [Benny Carter] is all that every jazz musician the world over wants to be. He's performed 20,000 nights. How many shoes have been shined? How much mascara put on? Rouge? How many of those impossible bowties have been tied? How many love songs have been sung? How many dances have been danced? How many have passed to the sound of his music? It's been said that a man should not be forced to live up to his art. Benny Carter is one of the rare instances when we wonder whether the great art that a man has created can live up to him. ~ Wynton Marsalis

I love man-kind, but I hate the institutions of the dead unkind. Men execute nothing so faithfully as the wills of the dead, to the last codicil and letter. They rule this world, and the living are but their executors. Such foundation too have our lectures and our sermons, commonly. ~ Henry David Thoreau

A good-natured man has the whole world to be happy out of. ~ Alexander Pope

None of the gods has formed the world, nor has any man, it has always been. ~ Empedocles

It is too little to call man a little world; Except God, man is a diminutive to nothing. ~ John Donne

I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character ... by which to distinguish between Man and Ape. I myself most assuredly know of none. ~ Carl Linnaeus

How chronic is the unconcern of men and women of the world! ~ Mary Elizabeth Braddon

When I meet gay men anywhere in the world, there is a spontaneity and a spirit of fun and mischief that lesbians seem incapable of. ~ Camille Paglia

How rarely I meet with a man who can be free, even in thought! We all live according to rule. Some men are bedridden; all world-ridden. ~ Henry David Thoreau

The fouling of the nest which has been typical of man's activity in the past on a local scale now seems to be extending to the whole world society. ~ Kenneth E. Boulding

When I hear a grown man or woman say, "Once I had faith in men, now I have not," I am inclined to ask, "Who are you whom the world has disappointed? Have not you rather disappointed the world?" ~ Henry David Thoreau

How do I know that there is a God? In the same way that I know, on looking at the sand, when a man or beast has crossed the desert - by His footprints in the world around me. ~ Henry Parry Liddon

Nonviolence has come among men and it will live. It is the harbinger of the peace of the world. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

No man can do me a truer kindness in this world than to pray for me. ~ Charles Spurgeon

The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man. ~ Matthew Arnold

No man in the world acts up to his own standard of right. ~ Thomas B. Macaulay

One man interacting creatively with others can move the world. ~ John W. Gardner

Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency. ~ Joseph Addison

A wise man should never resolve upon anything, at least, never let the world know his resolution, for if he cannot reach that he is ashamed. ~ John Selden

This is where the gods play games with the lives of men, on a board which is at one and the same time a simple playing area and the whole world. And Fate always wins. ~ Terry Pratchett

We need a Nuremberg to put on trial the economic order that they have imposed on us, that every three years kills more men, women and children by hunger and preventable or curable diseases than the death toll in six years of the second world war. ~ Fidel Castro

We live in a world of guided missiles
and misguided men. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences. ~ Horace

Do they merit vitriol, even a drop of it? Yes, because they corrupt the young, persuading them that the mature world, which produced Beethoven and Schweitzer, sets an even higher value on the transient anodynes of youth than does youth itself ... They are the Hollow Men. They are electronic lice. ~ Anthony Burgess

The child is essentially alien to this society of men and might express his position in the words of the Gospel: My kingdom is not of this world ~ Maria Montessori

Confidence is the foundation for all business relations. The degree of confidence a man has in others, and the degree of confidence others have in him, determines a man's standing in the commercial and industrial world. ~ William J.H. Boetcker

Jesmyn Ward returns to the world of her first two books, but here in the mode of non-fiction. A clear-eyed witness to the harrowing stories of 'men we reaped,' she quickens the dead and brings them, vividly alive again. An eloquent, grief-steeped account. ~ Nicholas Delbanco

If it were given to a man to see virtue's reward in the next world, he would occupy his intellect, memory and will in nothing but good works, careless of danger or fatigue. ~ John Of The Cross