Quotes About Men

Men reverence one another, not yet God.

We inspire friendship in men when we have contracted friendship with the gods.

But, commonly, men are as much afraid of love as of hate.

To speak impartially, the best men that I know are not serene, a world in themselves. For the most part, they dwell in forms, andflatter and study effect only more finely than the rest.

We saw men haying far off in the meadow, their heads waving like the grass which they cut. In the distance the wind seemed to bend all alike.

Good religious men, with the love of men in their hearts, and the means to pay their toll in their pockets.

Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move, And when this dust falls to the urn In that state I came, return.

A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation's young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.

Nowhere on the globe do men live so well as in America, or grumble so much.

Men of dissolute lives have little incentive to look forward to the hopes and glories of immortality. A due conception of these would be incompatible with such a life.

A republican government in a hundred points is weaker than an autocratic government; but in this one point it is the strongest that ever existed — it has educated a race of men that are men.

Books are the true metempsychosis,--they are the symbol and presage of immortality. The dead men are scattered, and none shall find them. Behold they are here! they do but sleep.

Men have a thousand desires to a bushel of choices.

A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of men.

There's magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.

Students of history are horror-struck at the massacres of old; but in the shambles, men are being murdered to-day.

I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all outstanding men.

The gods being always close to men perceive those who afflict others with unjust devices and do not fear the wrath of heaven.

I have a history with charismatic, attractive men who just wear me out.

I had grown men cry. I mean, literally.

I notice that most of the men who tease me about my hair, don't have any.

Jove lifts the golden balances that show The fates of mortal men, and things below.

See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly.

Not at all similar are the race of the immortal gods and the race of men who walk upon the earth.