Quotes
Quotes about Men
Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.
Tis after death that we measure men.
As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.
Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.
The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.
Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.
But now our fate from unmomentous things, may rise like rivers out of little springs.
Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.
The effect of having other interests beyond those domestic works well. The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.
Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
Good men must die, but death can not kill their names.
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear, Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
'Tis against some men's principle to pay interest, and seems against others' interest to pay the principle.
Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women.
It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood. [Lat., Improbi hominis est mendacio fallere.]
We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood. [Fr., On ne trompe point en bien; la fourberie ajoute la malice au mensonge.]
It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving, wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.
One is easily fooled by that which one loves. [Fr., On est aisement dupe par ce qu'on aime.]
Men are always sincere. They change sincerities, that's all.
Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision.
Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.
