Quotes on Men

A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.

I can't say that the college-bred woman is the most contented woman. The broader her mind the more she understands the unequal conditions between men and women, the more she chafes under a government that tolerates it.

What is it men in women do require: The lineaments of gratified desire. What is it women do in men require: The lineaments of gratified desire.

Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.

Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.

Sir, what can be said of these things? Is it the arm of the flesh that hath done these things? Is it the wisdom and counsel, or strength of man? It is the Lord only. God will curse that man and his house that dares to think otherwise. Sir, you see the work is done by a Divine leading. God gets into the hearts of men, and persuades them to come under you.

Small things make base men proud.

Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.

Choice word and measured phrase above the reach Of ordinary men.

You are not wood, you are not stones, but men.

Men are we, and must grieve when even the shade Of that which once was great is passed away.

We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.

If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone.

But why should not the New Englander try new adventures - not lay so much stress on his grain, his potato and grass crop, and his orchards - and raise other crops than these? Why concern ourselves so much about our beans for seed, and not be concerned at all about a new generation of men.

. . . we should be men first, and subjects afterward.

The man of genius knows what he is aiming at; nobody else knows. And he alone knows when something comes between him and his object. In the course of generations, however, men will excuse you for not doing as they do, if you will bring enough to pass in your own way.

There are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence.

When I hear a grown man or woman say, "Once I had faith in men, now I have not," I am inclined to ask, "Who are you whom the world has disappointed? Have not you rather disappointed the world?"

It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men.

I want to teach men the sense of their existence, which is the Superman, the lightning out of the dark cloud man.

But so fair, She takes the breath of men away Who gaze upon her unaware.