Men Quotes

Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

All men of action are dreamers.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

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.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

Great hopes make great men.

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me;I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.