Quotes About Men

For evil men account those things alone evil which do not make men evil; neither do they blush to praise good things, and yet to remain evil among the good things they praise. It grieves them more to own a bad house than a bad life, as if it were man's greatest good to have everything good but himself.

The truth is, as I have often said, and as Scripture informs us, and as the facts themselves sufficiently indicate, the demons are found to look after their own ends only, that they may be regarded and worshipped as gods, and that men may be induced to offer to them a worship which associates them with their crimes, and involves them in one common wickedness and judgment of God.

And I, miserable, believed that more mercy was to be shown to the fruits of the earth than men, for whom they were created.

The gods, if so minded, might mingle with men, so as to see and be seen, hear and be heard.

It is the decided opinion of all who use their brains, that all men desire to be happy. But who are happy, or how they become so, these are questions about which the weakness of human understanding stirs endless and angry controversies, in which philosophers have wasted their strength and expended their leisure.

For men are separated from God only by sins, from which we are in this life cleansed not by our own virtue, but by the divine compassion.

But our sole delight was play; and for this we were punished by those who yet themselves were doing the like. But elder folks' idleness is called "business"; that of boys, being really the same, is punished by those elders; and none commiserates either boys or men.

La morte risolve tutti i problemi: niente uomini, niente problemi.

from the Plains Sioux Indians. The Great Spirit the creator, decided to separate the world of animals and the world of men, so He gathered all living things on the Great Plains, and He drew a line down in the dirt. That line began to expand and form into a great deep crevasse, and at the last moment before it became unbreachable Dog leapt over and stood by Man. [from the book The NPR Interviews 1995, edited by Robert Siegel.]

Men who are loudly charged with repression before they have done anything to substantiate the charge are apt to proceed to substantiate it.

A través de la falta de coraje y decisión del general Grouchy en la batalla de Waterloo, nos advierte de que la historia la determinan hombres atrevidos.

Here conversation about Judith Spratt was not on the menu, since they sat surrounded by Fellows of the College. Most of them seemed to be men—somewhat to Liz's surprise, since her view of Somerville had been formed by Dorothy Sayers's Gaudy Night.

Es gibt zwei Sorten von Männern. Die einen verstehen 'etwas von Frauen', die anderen sind solche, die einfach 'Frauen verstehen'. Ich weiß nicht, welche Sorte mir verdächtiger ist.

The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse -- as a luxury befitting a young man.

The pirates understood what drove men

Men! Her mother actually wanted to marry one of these?

Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.

The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.

Oaths are not the credit of men but men of oaths.

Truth is buried, deep inside of men, sweep away each day.

There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.

The truth of it is that women are far more logical than men.