Quotes on Men

When dictators and tyrants seek to destroy the freedoms of men, their first target is the legal profession and through it the rule of law.

Literary men are . . . a perpetual priesthood.

Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men; Unless there be who think not God at all.

Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call earth.

There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions.

He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish or may fade,- A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied.

Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty.

When it is dark enough, men see the stars.

Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.

Men are better than this theology.

The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.

The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is - Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity

Men are lenses through which we read our own minds.

One of our statesmen said, "The curse of this country is eloquent men."

Men are that they might have joy . . . not guilt trips.

That saints will aid if men will call; For the blue sky bends over all!

Men seldom give pleasure when they are not pleased themselves.

But woe awaits a country when She sees the tears of bearded men.

I am glad to see that men are getting their rights, but I want women to get theirs, and while the water is stirring, I will step into the pool.

I am quite ready to acknowledge . . . that I ought to be grieved at death, if I were not persuaded that I am going to other gods who are wise and good (of this I am as certain as I can be of any such matters), and to men departed who are better than those whom I leave behind. And therefore I do not grieve as I might have done, for I have good hope that there is yet something remaining for the dead.