Men Quotes

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

Dreaming men are haunted men.

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

When women go wrong, men go right after them.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

The assertion that "all men are created equal" was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.