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Quotes About Men

Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
~ William James
All our liberties are due to men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken the laws of the land.
~ William Kingdon Clifford
What man in his right mind would conspire his own hurt? Men are beside themselves when they transgress against their convictions.
~ William Penn
For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach of Temptation.
~ William Penn
God raises up such men as John Bunyan and William Huntington but once in a century.
~ William Romaine
But men are men; the best sometimes forget.
~ William Shakespeare
For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men.
~ William Shakespeare
We must love men, ere to us they will seem worthy of our love.
~ William Shakespeare
O Judgment ! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason !
~ William Shakespeare
I see men's judgments are A parcel of their fortunes; and things outward Do draw the inward quality after them, To suffer all alike.
~ William Shakespeare
For oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer-cakes, And hold-fast is the only dog.
~ William Shakespeare
The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing.
~ William Wordsworth
Fear is a cloak which old men huddle about their love, as if to keep it warm.
~ William Wordsworth
In handing over the Government of India to these so-called political classes, we are handing over to men of straw, of whom, in a few years, no trace will remain.
~ Winston Churchill
Recruitment and retention are critical to sustain our Armed Forces with the best men and women willing to stand in the gap and make huge sacrifices to ensure our freedom.
~ Zach Wamp
The natural desire of good men is knowledge.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
The sin both of men and of angels was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will.
~ C.S. Lewis
Men. You can't live with them...and you can't legally shoot them. I tossed out my husband eight years ago and got a llama instead. Best decision I ever made.
~ Jodi Picoult, Lone Wolf
The structure of human betterment cannot be built upon foundations of materialism or business, but upon the bedrock of individual character in free men and women.
~ Herbert Hoover
The hope of remaking the world is indispensable in the struggle of oppressed men and women.
~ Paulo Freire
It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.
~ Phillips Brooks
Example teaches better than precept. It is the best modeler of the character of men and women. To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind him.
~ Samuel Smiles
Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.
~ Abigail Adams
Men desire to have some share in the management of public affairs chiefly on account of the importance which it gives them.
~ Adam Smith