Men Quotes

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.