Men Quotes

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.

Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.

I think that the longer I look good, the better gay men feel.

It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

Did they preach one thing and practice another, these men of God?

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.

As we look forward to freedom, the shining city on the hill and the best days of America lying ahead, it is the men and women in uniform who protect, defend and make us proud to whom we should look and give thanks every night.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.

Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.

Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.

Gay men have to go through something to own their - who they are. They get beat up. They get ostracized. Whatever they go through, if they survive it, they come out very confident people.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

Men tend to be selfish.

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

It is always in season for old men to learn.

Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.

It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.