Men Quotes

One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.

Purposes, plans, and achievements of men may all disappear like yon cloud upon the mountain's summit; but, like the mountain itself, the things which are of God shall stand fast for ever and ever.

The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers.

If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

In soft regions are born soft men.

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.