Men Quotes

There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.

I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.

I've gone for each type: the rough guy; the nerdy, sweet, lovable guy; and the slick guy. I don't really have a type. Men in general are a good thing.

The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.