Quotes About Men

He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one;Exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading;Lofty and sour to them that lov'd him not;But, to those men that sought him sweet as summer.

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!

Men that hazard allDo it in hope of fair advantages:A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross.

Bassanio: Do all men kill the things they do not love?Shylock: Hates any man the thing he would not kill?

Are you good men and true?

Men's vows are women's traitors!

And men sit down to that nourishment which is called supper.

Ships are but boards, sailors but men: there be land-rats and water-rats, land-thieves and water-thieves.

Men's judgments areA parcel of their fortunes, and things outwardDo draw the inward quality after them,To suffer all alike.

I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.

This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands,-- This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.

To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters.

how interest can draw a film across the eyes, so think, that total blindness could do no more; and how it is our duty therefore to trust not to the reasonings of interested men, or to their way of colouring a transaction. William Wilberforce, 12th May 1789, Against the slave trade

Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.

Fear is a cloak which old men huddle about their love, as if to keep it warm.

Choice word and measured phrase, above the reachOf ordinary men.

Where are your books? - that light bequeathed To beings else forlorn and blind! Up! up! and drink the spirit breathed From dead men to their kind.

I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning; Alas! the gratitude of men Has oftener left me mourning.

by nature men are alike. Through practice they have become far apart,"3

I would argue yes. In fact, I would question the inverse. Can men of privilege...who do not feel the impact of policies on forests, children or their ability to breastfeed children...actually have the compassion to make policy that is reflection of the interests of others. At this point, I think not.

There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.

When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.

Some men are heterosexual and some men are bisexual and some men don't think about sex at all, you know, they become lawyers.

Artists put as much vitality and delight into their saintliness and escape out as most men do their escapes into similar places from respectable existence.