Men Quotes

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says "I was beaten," he does not say "My men were beaten".

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.

There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.

No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.

There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.

We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes.

Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.

It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.