Men Quotes

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

When men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad times one uses counterfeit money when there is no good money.

All religions have been made by men.

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work... men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

Men make clothes for the women they'd like to be with or in most cases the women they'd like to be.

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

It's a small percentage of people who do the 80-hour-a-week high-powered career thing, and they're almost all men. Why? Well, men are driven by socio-economic status more than women.

I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

Men still have to be governed by deception.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.