Men Quotes
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Very small, child, are the flying days of love, and men and women must catch them when they can, if they are to know love at all.
Gene Wolfe
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I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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When I started, black people were either victims or they were the perpetrators; they were the boogie men who jumped out of the bushes and did terrible things to you.
Joe Morton
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I myself downloaded and watched 'The Wire,' 'Breaking Bad,' 'Downton Abbey,' 'Mad Men' and 'The Walking Dead' on my iPad while walking on a treadmill. I never turned a TV on once. I never inserted a DVD.
Jay Chandrasekhar
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He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.
Charles Kingsley
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Jesus accepted the plenary [i.e., complete, extending to all its parts] inspiration of the Bible; when first approached by the devil to turn stones into bread, our Lord replied that man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God (Matt. 4:4 quoting Deut. 8:3). He did not say, "some words" but "every word." If Scripture is breathed out from God (2 Tim. 3:16), then Scripture must be included in what sustains man, not only parts of Scripture but all of it.
Charles Caldwell Ryrie
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It was lovely, and tempting, to exert power over men and to shine before others, but power also had its perditions and perils.
Hermann Hesse
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True faith will always show itself by its fruits . . . I suspect that, with rare exceptions, men die just as they have lived.
J. C. Ryle
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I like honest men of all colors.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Virtue does not come from wealth, but wealth, and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue.
Socrates
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The unceasing activity of the Creator whereby, in overflowing bounty and goodwill, He upholds His creatures in ordered existence, guides and governs all events, circumstances, and free acts of angels and men, and directs everything to its appointed goal, for His own glory.
J. I. Packer
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I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving.
William Shakespeare
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Religion, which should most distinguish us from the beasts, and ought most particularly elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts.
John Locke
Nazareth
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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
John Stuart Mill
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All men of genius, and all those who have gained rank in the republic of letters, are brothers, whatever may be the land of their nativity.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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They call me 'sweet,' and 'gentle'; and some of the men go the length of calling me 'endearing,' and I laugh in my sleeve and think, 'Oh, Lord! If you but knew what a brimstone of a creature I am behind all this beautiful amiability!'
Jane Welsh Carlyle
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It would be better for me … that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself.
Plato
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Hope has often caused the love of gain to ruin men.
Sophocles
