Famous Men Quotes
To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
Produce great men, the rest follows.
The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
Brave men are brave from the very first.
Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience.
A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.
When men are pure, laws are useless when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
The best of men cannot suspend their fate The good die early, and the bad die late.
Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.
The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.
Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.
Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot.
Alfred Nobel’s discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in the hands of the great criminals who lead peoples to war.
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.
Cowards only sin, brave men never, no, not even in mind.
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.
Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.
Reflect upon your present blessings – of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Princeton is no longer a thing for Princeton men to please themselves with. Princeton is a thing with which Princeton men must satisfy the country.
The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.
Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.
True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.
We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.
So long as there are men, there will be wars.
I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.
Men do not make laws. They do but discover them.
For Brutus is an honourable man So are they all, all honourable men.
It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.
The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.
The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.
Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
When a nation’s young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.
Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.
Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.
Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.
Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid.
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.
Why are women … so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
Men have become the tools of their tools.
The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.
Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.
The wisest men follow their own direction.
I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.
There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted.
The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.