Quotes on Men

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

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

A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.

If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.

A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.

It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.

What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.