Quotes About Men

Adversity cause some men to break others to break records.

Men moving only in an official circle are apt to become merely official -- not to say arbitrary -- in their ideas, and are apter and apter with each passing day to forget that they only hold power in a representative capacity.

The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.

Fact remains ---Roush could be a fine justice. A lot better than some of the idiots on the court now, men and women who only got there because their lives have been so damned boring they could survive the confirmation process. - Senator Josiah Keyes

The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership 'til they have lost the desire to lead anyone.

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God alone.

That with their miseries they opened a way to these new lands; and after these hardships, with what ease other men came to inhabit them,

There are no extraordinary men...just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.

God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.

The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

These well-to-do were many of the same men who so enthusiastically supported secession at the outset—the ones who so confidently blustered that independence would be so quick and easy that they would eat all the flesh of those killed in any war, and drink all the blood spilled. Now in mid-1864 still "those that brought the war on is at home & our boys are fighting for there property

All men by their nature give praise.It is allthey can do.

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

Clayton reported Heber C. Kimball's recollection: "Joseph said that for men and women to hold their tongues, was their Salvation.

Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.

It was in such an enfeebled state of the Empire, that there arose a new sort of men, who so far from setting up patterns of piety and virtue, squandered away the lives and properties of the poor with so much barefacedness, that other men, on beholding their conduct, became bolder and bolder, and practised the worst and ugliest action, without fear or remorse. From those men sprung an infinity of evil-doers, who plague the Indian world, and grind the faces of its wretched inhabitants …

Nor one feeling of vengeance presume to defileThe cause, or the men, of the Emerald Isle.

Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.

A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.

There are no great men, just great challenges which ordinary men, out of necessity, are forced by circumstances to meet.

You men! Cowards. Every one of you cowards.

SINCE Chick Morelli and some of his Italian Community Club members have appeared in the story of the Nortons, they require no special introduction. However, so far they have been seen only as they affected a group of corner boys. In order to understand who the men were and where they were going, it is necessary to step inside the club, observe their actions, and listen to the accounts they give of themselves.

One evening in October, 1937, Doc scheduled a bowling match against the Italian Community Club, which was composed largely of college men who held their meetings every two weeks in the Norton Street Settlement House.

He feared that beyond the quilted gray satin of the undertaker's keep there was only a world of mystery that bypassed the comprehension of men and did not even take them into consideration. A world of utter darkness and the profoundest of silences.