Men Quotes

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.

They talk like angels but they live like men.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.

Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.

The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.

No universal selfishness can bring social good to all. Communism - the effort to give all men what they need and to ask of each the best they can contribute - this is the only way of human life.

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

There were some great clinicians in the 20th century - great men. Freud was a genius; Jung was a genius, Carl Rogers was a genius - there's a half-dozen psychologists of the 1950s and humanists of the 1960s.

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.