Quotes on Men

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

Conscience is God present in man.

The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.

Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.

Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?

I get so tired of people acting like, you know, black men and women never help each other, never support each other.

History never repeats itself. Man always does.

I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.