Quotes About Men

Men who neglect philosophy while busying themselves with ordinary affairs are like the Suitors [in the Odyssey] who desired Penelope but went to bed with her maids.

Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of force against individual men, in any form.

My pitching philosophy is simple. I believe in getting the ball over the plate and not walking a lot of men.

Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.

Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential.

There are philosophies which are unendurable not because men are cowards, but because they are men.

The fact is very few men live harmoniously, while most of us survive miraculously!

Here is the beginning of philosophy: a recognition of the conflicts between men a search for their cause a condemnation of mere opinion .. . and the discovery of a standard of judgement.

Men are good when they get lost in the beauty of love.

There are many examples of men in history who could give us a better mirror after which to pattern ourselves

Surely, the gods' judgment is certain. But as for us, we must be satisfied to 'come close' to those things, for we are men, who speak according to what is likely, and whose lectures resemble fables.

It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.

Wonder, and its expression in poetry and the arts, are among the most important things which seem to distinguish men from other animals, and intelligent and sensitive people from morons.

Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form.

In my opinion we learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour. We study it, as we listen to music or read poetry, for pleasure, not for instruction.

Men take care of your responsibilities with maturity.

Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men.

Poverty, Poetry, and new Titles of Honor, make Men ridiculous

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

The world would have peace if only men of politics would follow the Gospels.

The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

They let dangerous men out of prison now, yes sir, I'm afraid it's so. Cause they're over crowded and it was only his fifth offense.