Quotes About Men

Hearts of oak are our ships, Hearts of oak are our men.

We rate ability in men by what they finish, not by what they begin.

The lower classes of men, though they do not think it worthwhile to record what they perceive, nevertheless perceive everything that is worth noting; the difference between them and a man of learning often consists in nothing more than the latter's facility for expression.

Time is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men.

Time is the king of men.

So many men, so many opinions.

I intimidate men.... People look a lot, but there's no line outside my door.

There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.

There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.

Politics, and the fate of mankind, are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness.

Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us.

It is simpler and easier to flatter men than to praise them.

Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.

The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.

When men are rightfully occupied, then their amusement grows out of their work as the color petals out of a fruitful garden.

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness, than disbelief in great men.

I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours.

So prodigal was I of youth, Forgetting I was young; I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong.

All men look at Dr. Ruth and wonder how she has gained all that sexual experience.

The king of France with twenty thousand men Went up the hill, and then came down again: The king of Spain with twenty thousand more Climbed the same hill the French had climbed before.

Sports allow men to build up situations of emergency. What he then demands of himself is unnecessary achievement - and unnecessary sacrifice. He artificially creates the tension that he has been spared by affluent society.

A state is a perfect body of free men, united together to enjoy common rights and advantages.

States are as the men are; they grow out of human characters.

Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. They have retained bubbling-over boyishness. They have relished wit, they have indulged in humor. They have not allowed "dignity" to depress them into moroseness. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism, and optimism is the stuff of which American business success is fashioned. Resist growing up!