Quotes About Men

So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence.

Heaven hears and pities hapless men like me, For sacred ev'n to gods is misery.

Not two strong men the enormous weight could raise,- Such men as live in these degenerate days.

All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive joy or sorrow.

We have long struggles with ourself, of which the outcome is one of our actions; they are, as it were, the inner side of human nature. This inner side is God's; the outer side belongs to men.

Men more quickly and more gladly recall what they deride than what they approve and esteem.

I have known men of valor cowards to their wives.

Love lost is a special kind of failure, I think. It's a reminder that some consummations, no matter how devoutly wished for, never come; that some apes will never be men, not in all the world's ages.

What was it with men, that they found elementary logic so difficult?

And men my prophet wail deride!

Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men.

If the golden gate of preferment is not usually opened to men of real merit, persons of no worth have entered it in a most extraordinary manner.

Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.

The moment that law is destroyed, liberty is lost, and men, left free to enter upon the domains of each other, destroy each other's rights, and invade the field of each other's liberty.

In my judgment, a great mistake has been made by well meaning and zealous men, through treating error and infidelity with altogether too much respect.

For a while they stood there, like men on the edge of a sleep where nightmare lurks, holding it off, though they know that they can only come to morning through the shadows.

There are other men, and other lives, and time still to be.

And long there he lay, an image of the splendour of the Kings of Men in glory undimmed before the breaking of the world.

Love is a heavenly quality that is given to prepare men to enjoy the heavenly city more.

What difference does it make after all?--anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what's heaven? what's earth? All in the mind.

Men do not knowingly drink for the effect alcohol produces on the body. What they drink for is the brain-effect; and if it must come through the body, so much the worse for the body.

A group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men.

Men think to mend their condition by a change of circumstances. They might as well hope to escape from their shadows.

I saw a story in the Los Angeles Times that 40 percent of the viewers are men. It didn't really surprise me.