Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.
Dragons old and young, true and false, bright and dark. And you. A small man with a big shadow, snarling in the midst of all.
The worst lesson that can be taught to a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
In Proverbs we read: 'He that winneth souls is wise. ' If any man, women, or child by a godly life and example can win one soul to God, his life will not have been a failure. He will have outshone all the mighty men of his day, because he will have set a stream in motion that will flow on and on forever and ever.
My biggest kick comes from the individual fans I run into. Middle-aged men ask me when we're going to do more Johnny Quest cartoons.
There was a man who was worthless, and knew he was worthless, and yet however far down he tried to sink his soul, there was always some part of him capable of great action.
Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this. . .
But the man and woman of seventy assume to know all, they have outlived their hope, they renounce aspiration, accept the actual for the necessary and talk down to the young. Let them then become organs of the Holy Ghost; let them be lovers; let them behold truth; and their eyes are uplifted, their wrinkles smoothed, they are perfumed again with hope and power.
I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me.
Man's greatest victory is over oneself.
A man who will not die to save a woman is no man.
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man will probably end up dating the best looking blind chick.
Those base men who speak of the secret faults of others destroy themselves like serpents that stray onto anthills.
Things like science and technology still leave some gaps, so it's not as if everybody was sitting around doing nothing, but the bureaucracy and the whole structure of our culture is basically built out of men trying to be legitimate and making things up so they look important.
Indeed it is generally the case that men are readier to call rogues clever than simpletons honest, and are ashamed of being the second as they are proud of being the first.
There is no curse equal to the curse of idleness. It destroys the man, the group, the people, or the nation who suffer under it.
A good man is hard to find -- but you'll mostly find him asleep.
A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.
I pass the test that says a man who isn't a socialist at 20 has no heart, and a man who is a socialist at 40 has no head.
