Famous Men Quotes
The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.
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.
Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
When a nation’s young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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.
We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.
Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
The wisest men follow their own direction.
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.
I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.
As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.
Produce great men, the rest follows.
The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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.
Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.
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.
So long as there are men, there will be wars.
To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.
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.
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.
The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.
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.
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
For Brutus is an honourable man So are they all, all honourable men.
Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.
When men are pure, laws are useless when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.
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.
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.
Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.
The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.
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.
Brave men are brave from the very first.
Reflect upon your present blessings – of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Men do not make laws. They do but discover them.
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.
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
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.
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.
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don’t trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
Rape is one of the most terrible crimes on earth and it happens every few minutes. The problem with groups who deal with rape is that they try to educate women about how to defend themselves. What really needs to be done is teaching men not to rape. Go to the source and start there.
Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience.
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.
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.
Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.
Men have become the tools of their tools.
The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
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.
The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.
Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
Why are women … so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
