Men Quotes

"Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men."

"Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants."

"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."

"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."

"The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God's universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves."

"These are the times that try men's souls."

"All religions have been made by men."

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

"In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high."

"Men's vows are women's traitors!"

"If we know that our own men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the enemy is not open to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory."

"All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it."

"I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests."

"I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters."

"Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions."

"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."

"To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants."

"If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces."

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

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

"Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life."

"I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others."

"I couldn't say no to A. Philip Randolph and no to Martin Luther King, Jr. These two men, I loved them, I admired them, and they were my heroes."

"Men freely believe that which they desire."

"I see in Jesus matchless charms. I see in Him everything to be desired by the children of men."

"We must continue to prove to the world that we can provide a rising standard of living for all men without loss of civil rights or human dignity to any man."

"Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men."

"Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love."

"Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities."

"Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish."

"To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!"

"If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor."

"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."

"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution."

"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."