Quotes
Quotes about Men
When it was reported to General Washington that the army was frequently indulging in swearing, he immediately sent out the following order: The general is sorry to be informed that the foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing â a vice little known heretofore in the American army â is growing into fashion. Let the men and officers reflect 'that we can not hope for the blessing of heaven on our army if we insult it by our impiety and folly.'
If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.
Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.
All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows That for oblivion that their daily birth From all the fuming vanities of earth.
If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himselfâ ugly as they may seem to his sentimental vanityâ before he can learn the truth behind the facts. And the truth is never ugly.
If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by "vanity" only that they appreciate their own worth. Without this kind of vanity they would not be great. And with vanity alone, of course, a man is nothing.
Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.
Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to the rank of the offender. [Lat., Omne animi vitium tanto conspectius in se Crimen habet, quanto major qui peccat habetur.]
The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice."
Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times. [Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum.
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.
Many without punishment, none without sin.
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
There will be vice as long as there are men.
Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.
He who hates vice hates men.
Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
Out spoke the victor then, As he hail'd them o'er the wave, Ye are brothers! ye are men! And we conquer but to save; So peace instead of death let us bring; But yield, proud foe, let us bring; With the crews, at England's feet, And make submission meet To our King.
The most dangerous moment comes with victory.
Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.
