Quotes About Men

We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase to live like men.

Modern men and women are obsessed with the sexual; it is the only realm of primordial adventure still left to most of us. Like apes in a zoo, we spend our energies on the one field of play remaining; human lives otherwise are pretty well caged in by the walls, bars, chains, and locked gates of our industrial culture.

We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope; without it the life of the cities would drive all men into crime or drugs or psychoanalysis.

What reason have we Americans to think that our own society will necessarily escape the world-wide drift toward the totalitarian organization of men and institutions?

The folly of men not their hard heartedness was the great cause of the world s poverty.

Public men are often alarmed into gratitude, seldom shamed into it.

It would seem probable that the attachment of such a one is of a tender and profound character; indeed, it is possible that in this class of men we have the love sentiment in one of its most perfect forms—a form in which from the necessities of the situation the sensuous element, though present, is exquisitely subordinated to the spiritual.

Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.

having learned a long time ago that the best way to handle unwanted men in public is to ignore them completely.

Swimming - what real men do while boys play football.

In the most general sense of progressive thought, the Enlightenment has always aimed at liberating men from fear and establishing their sovereignty. Yet the fully enlightened earth radiates disaster triumphant.

O tribe of [spirits] and of men, if you are able to pass through the confines of heaven and earth, pass through them! You shall not pass through them except with [the Lord's] authority.

Some men have a den in their home, while others just growl all over the house.

Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.

If this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought:But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it.

And he [Ezra] read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law.

A conscience void of offense toward God, and toward men.

There are so many men who can figure costs, and so few who can measure values.

The spirits of just men made perfect.

Bad men excuse their faults; good men abandon them.

Three phrases that sum up Christmas are: Peace on Earth, Goodwill to Men, and Batteries not Included.

He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men.

What is the difference between men and women? A woman wants one man to satisfy her every need, and a man wants every woman to satisfy his one need.

Your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions.