Quotes About Relevance

It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of another.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

What men have thought about life in the past is less important than what you feel about it to-day.

any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man

The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.

Nothing is worth anything to dead men.

... a man is a very important thing-maybe more important than a star.

Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.

In the present age, a man with harmonious ideas is regarded as out of touch.

Man is the ant of the Universe; He is not an important creature, at least at the moment!

I don't want to sound like some grumpy old man telling you to get off my lawn.

A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.

We do not behave as if we believed that the affairs of our world were significant enough for the intervention of great men.

Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.

A man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to anyone else.

No man should be allowed to be the President who does not understand hogs, or hasn't been around a manure pile.

An ignorant man is insignificant and contemptible; nobody cares for his company, and he can just be said to live, and that is all.

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

How do you be a 45-year-old man in a rock band, do it well, keep your dignity and not become a parody of yourself? I don't think it will be simple.

I think the pop industry is still a young man's game.

I don't want to be an old-man filmmaker, making old-man movies, and I don't want to be the one not to know when to leave the party.

There is nothing but is related to us, nothing that does not interest us,--kingdom, college, tree, horse, or iron show,--the rootsof all things are in man.

A man is not necessarily a master because he happened to compose two or three centuries ago. Let us beware of the worship of mere antiquity.

Man is apt to be more moved by the art of his own period, not because it is more perfect, but because it is organically related to him.