Quotes
Quotes about Men
Words represent your intellect. The sound, gesture and movement represent your feelings.
He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul.
Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.
Borrowed garments never fit well.
The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races: the men who borrow, and the men who lend.
Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
Solid men of Boston, make no long orations; Solid men of Boston, drink no long potations; Solid men of Boston, go to bed at sundown; Never lose your way like the loggerheads of London.
A hundred thousand men were led By one calf near three centuries dead; They followed still his crooked way And lost a hundred years a day; For thus such reverence is lent To well established precedent.
One day through the primeval wood A calf walked home as good calves should; But made a trail all bent askew, A crooked trail as all calves do. . . . . And men two centuries and a half Trod in the footsteps of that calf.
Solid men of Boston, banish long potations! Solid men of Boston, make no long orations!
Only little boys and old men sneer at love.
Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.
The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forbearance among men.
The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus every boy is a challenge to his elders.
Song of the brave, how thrills thy tone As when the Organ's music rolls; No gold rewards, but song alone, The deeds of great and noble souls. [Ger., Hoch klingt das Lied vom braven Mann, Wie Orgelton und Glockenklang; Wer hohes Muths sich ruhmen kann Den lohnt nicht Gold, den lohnt Gesang.]
Brave men were living before Agamemnon.
Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
Brave men are brave from the very first. [Fr., Les hommes valeureux le sont au premier coup.]
Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause.
O friends, be men; so act that none may feel Ashamed to meet the eyes of other men. Think each one of this children and his wife, His home, his parents, living yet and dead. For them, the absent ones, I supplicate, And bid you rally here, and scorn to fly.
