Men Quotes

Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.

Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.

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

The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives.

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see, the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before.

All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.