Men Quotes

"More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth."

"Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are."

"Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance."

"For Jesus, there are no countries to be conquered, no ideologies to be imposed, no people to be dominated. There are only children, women and men to be loved."

"The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it."

"There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism."

"Give to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them."

"People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals."

"We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men... We are who we are because they were who they were. It's wise to know where you come from, who called your name."

"Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war."

"Yes, we become stronger when men and women, young and old, gay and straight, native-born and immigrant fight together to create the kind of country we all know we can become."

"Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion."

"It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous."

"Men are what their mothers made them."

"The most positive men are the most credulous."

"There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair."

"I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all."

"It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood."

"All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women."

"The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers."

"Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men."

"Time takes away the grief of men."

"Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts."

"Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future."

"The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short."

"The tyranny of Communism is as old as the Pharaohs and the Pyramids - that the State stands above all men and their individual aspirations."

"It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist."

"Weak men make everybody vulnerable to danger."

"The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak."

"Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it."

"Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones."

"Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less."

"The Creator, in taking infinite pains to shroud with mystery His presence in every atom of creation, could have had but one motive - a sensitive desire that men seek Him only through free will."

"In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out."

"Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest."

"All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work."

"Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it's quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid."

"When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them."

"Sometimes you have to not just dream about what could be - you get out and push and you pull and you preach. And you create a climate and environment to get those in high places, to get men and women of good will in power to act."

"All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it."

"It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars."

"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."

"Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad."

"I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done."

"Ninety-nine percent of the men and women of the FBI... are just professionals. I don't want Americans, if an FBI agent knocks on their door, to have to be worried about well, is he a Democrat or a Republican? He's an FBI agent."

"Soldiers, I had lately like to have been taken from you by the attempt of a few desperate men, but by the grace and providence of the gods, I am still preserved."

"I don't like the clean-shaven boy with the necktie and the good job. I like desperate men, men with broken teeth and broken minds and broken ways. They interest me. They are full of surprises and explosions."

"It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle."

"People equate sexy with promiscuous. They think that because I'm shaped this way, I must be scandalous - like running around and bringing men into my hotel room. But it's just the opposite."

"Force always attracts men of low morality."