Quotes on Men

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves a number of obscure men who have only remained obscure because their timidity has prevented them from making a first effort; and who, if they could only have been induced to begin, would in all probability have gone great lengths in the career of fame.

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.

Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

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

I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won't be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity.

For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas.

It wasn't until we got over the self pity that we were able to accept suffering as apart of our life with Christ. A man or woman reaches this plane only when he or she ceases to be the hero.

A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.

How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.

Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.

All women's issues are to some degree men's issues and all men's issues are to some degree women's issues because when either sex wins unilaterally both sexes lose.

White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages.

When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.

God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.

Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.

I keep both eyes on my man. The basket hasn't moved on me yet.