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Quotes About Men

Most of the men had simple souls. They could relate facts, but they said very little about what they dimly felt.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
training in the writing of good English is indispensable to any learned man who expects to make his learning count for what it ought to count in the effect on his fellow men.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
In the same way I have always regarded boxing as a first-class sport to encourage in the Young Men's Christian Association.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
I didn't trust men. I wanted to trust them because I knew there must be some good men in the world, but the ones I'd known had lied to my face while plotting acts of violence. Women could be bitches, but men were the ones who seemed the most capable of crimes without mercy.
~ Theresa Weir
Over the years, the stories that men created became more important and influential than the men themselves. Hence born are the religions and many others.
~ Thiruman Archunan
SHUN the gossip of men as much as possible, for discussion of worldly affairs, even though sincere, is a great distraction inasmuch as we are quickly ensnared and captivated by vanity.
~ Thomas a Kempis
Thou wilt be quickly deceived if thou lookest only upon the outward appearance of men, for if thou seekest thy comfort and profit in others, thou shalt too often experience loss. If thou seekest Jesus in all things thou shalt verily find Jesus, but if thou seekest thyself thou shalt also find thyself, but to thine own hurt. For if a man seeketh not Jesus he is more hurtful to himself than all the world and all his adversaries.
~ Thomas a Kempis
It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.
~ Thomas Aquinas
But since in men generation is a certain kind of transmutation of one proceeding from potentiality to act, it follows that a man is not equal at first to the father who begets him, but attains to equality by due growth, unless owing to a defect in the principle of generation it should happen otherwise.
~ Thomas Aquinas
Reply to Objection 3: It is not erroneous to say that men are transferred to the penalty of demons; but some erroneously stated that the demons are nothing but souls of the dead; and it is this that Chrysostom rejects.
~ Thomas Aquinas
My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.
~ Thomas Arnold
For men like William, the need for an audience was a simple fact of knightly life.
~ Thomas Asbridge
What is the world? A heap and muster of men, without the word of God.
~ Thomas Becon
But, Sire, the curse which shall ruin you eventually is the selfsame which ruins all men, irrespective of their actions good or evil, and that is Time, which is the issue of an incestuous act performed by God on reality.
~ Thomas Berger
Sins against God's mercy will bring the greatest and sorest judgments upon men's heads and hearts. Mercy is God's Alpha, justice is His Omega.
~ Thomas Brooks
The nearer any soul draws to God, the more humble will that soul lie before God...the most holy men have always been the most humble men...If the work be good, though never so low, humility will put a hand to it; so will not pride.
~ Thomas Brooks
There are no souls in the world that are so fearful to judge others as those that do most judge themselves, nor so careful to make a righteous judgment of men or things as those that are most careful to judge themselves.
~ Thomas Brooks
Were we to characterize this age of ours by any single epithet, we should be tempted to call it… above all others, the Mechanical Age…. The same habit regulates not our modes of action alone, but our modes of thought and feeling. Men are grown mechanical in head and in heart, as well as in hand.
~ Thomas Carlyle
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Does it ever give thee pause that men used to have a soul? Not by hearsay alone, or as a figure of speech, but as a thruth that they knew and acted upon. Verily it was another world then, but yet it is a pity we have lost the tidings of our souls. We shall have to go in search of them again or worse in all ways shall befall us.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Does it ever give thee pause, that men used to have a soul- not by hearsay along, or as a figure of speech; but as a truth that they knew, and acted upon! Verily it was another world then... but yet it is a pity we have lost the tidings of our souls... we shall have to go in search of them again, or worse in all ways shall befall us.
~ Thomas Carlyle
I like naughty boys. I was married to David Bailey, who was one of the naughtiest. I like real men, and I like masculinity.
~ Marie Helvin
There are not as many women who support the national defense budget now as men. I really think there is a gender gap in the support for the large expenditures that are necessary to modernize the force.
~ Ted Stevens
The men who miss success have two general alibis: 'I'm not a genius' is one; the other, 'There aren't the opportunities today there used to be.' Neither excuse holds. The first is beside the point; the second is altogether wrong.
~ Charles M. Schwab