Men Quotes

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it's harder for us.

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance, particularly in military affairs.

Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.

Wise men argue causes; fools decide them.

It is up to you to decide that this has lasted long enough, that our boys are dying to serve no British interest but for the interests of a small clique of utterly unscrupulous men.

In violation of the Habeas Corpus Act and the fundamental laws of our constitution these men have never been brought to trail or even allowed to see a lawyer.

All men will commence in their present rank and promotion will be open to all men alike, without any distinctions or qualifications, political or otherwise.

Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.

Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.

I have known some wonderful men.

The more I know about men the more I like dogs.

Men are pigs. Too bad we own everything.

The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them.

Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ simply proclaim that their theory is in flat contradiction to the spiritual fact.

I think men are a beautiful creation.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.

He who has no wish to be happier is the happiest of men.

If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature, this Savior would not be suited to you, and you would not be comprehended in his gracious invitations to the children of men.

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.

The ocean moans over dead men's bones.

At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.

Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.

Men can do all things if they will.

Such and so various are the tastes of men.

Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.

Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.