Quotes on Men

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

On television I feel like a man playing piano in a brothel; every now and again he solaces himself by playing 'Abide with Me' in the hope of edifying both the clients and the inmates

Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.

But I love you, sir:_x000D_ _x000D_ And when a woman says she loves a man,_x000D_ _x000D_ The man must hear her, though he love her not.

The plow is one of the most ancient and most valuable of man's inventions; but long before he existed the land was in fact regularly plowed, and still continues to be thus plowed by earthworms. It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world, as have these lowly organized creatures.

The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.

There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.

Why shouldn't gay people be allowed to be able to marry? Those against gay marriages say marriage should only be between a man and a woman. God, I of all people know that doesn't always work!

The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.

Indians do not hinder the progress of their dead by embalming or tight coffining. When the spirit has gone they give the body back to the earth. the earth welcomes the body-coaxes new life and beauty from it, hurries over what men shudder at. Lovely tender herbage bursts from the graves, swiftly, exulting over corruption.

Unless some effective world supergovernment for the purpose of preventing war can be set up ... the prospects for peace and human progress are dark ....If .... it is found possible to build a world organization of irresistible force and inviolable authority for the purpose of securing peace, there are no limits to the blessings which all men enjoy and share.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

I believe in the doctrine of non-violence as a weapon of the weak. I believe in the doctrine of non-violence as a weapon of the strongest. I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.

From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes