Men Quotes

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

We soon found that the white men were growing rich very fast, and were greedy.

I like being a woman, even in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.

Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life.

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.

The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

Daring is not safe against daring men.

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.

Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.

No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.