Quotes About Men

At its heart, legalism is a desire to appear holy. It is trying to be justified before men and not God.

All male animals, including men, when they are in love, are apt to behave in ways that seem ludicrous to bystanders.

The inspiration of a noble cause enables men to do things they did not dream themselves capable of before

Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business.

An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.

It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology.

Intellectual men who quickly wolf down whatever nourishment is necessary for their bodies with a kind of disdain, may be very rational and have a noble intelligence, but they are not men of taste.

Men are polished, through act and speech, Each by each, As pebbles are smoothed on the rolling beach.

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.

Law is twofold -- natural and written. The natural law is in the heart, the written law on tables. All men are under the natural law.

Just think, if it weren't for marriage, men would go through life thinking they had no faults at all.

I know nothing more worthy of a man's ambition than that his son be the best of men.

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.

Communism denies God, enslaves men, and destroys justice.

The justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations.

It is one of the most hauntingly beautiful places in the world, the history is fascinating, the men are handsome and the whisky is delicious. But don't eat the macaroni pies.

The north German does not go in for extremes. He has broader horizons than the men from the mountains of Bavaria and Austria.

Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, singers of songs.

The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they are unworthy of Him.

Men love everything but righteousness and fear everything but God.

It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.