Famous Quotes About men

The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals nay it is treachery to comrades.

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.