Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.
There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
The making of the far-famed New York Central Park was opposed by even good men, with misguided pluck, perseverance, and ingenuity, but straight right won its way, and now that park is appreciated. So we confidently believe it will be with our great national parks and forest reservations.
I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I’ll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I’m gonna tell ya, that’s one helluva man, and God bless him.
The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution – nor by the courts – nor by the officers of the law – nor by the lawyers – but by the men and women who constitute our society – who are the protectors of the law as they are themselves protected by the law.
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion – I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more – I could be martyred for my religion – Love is my religion – I could die for that.
Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.
What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.
In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the ‘Not Me,’ that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, ‘Nature.’
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
Victory usually goes to the army who has better trained officers and men.
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations – wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
I’ve also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.
Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?
The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.
Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.
The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
Purposes, plans, and achievements of men may all disappear like yon cloud upon the mountain’s summit; but, like the mountain itself, the things which are of God shall stand fast for ever and ever.
War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.
The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes, and men grow better as the world grows old.
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
War is big business. It’s a lot of money going to and fro, and unfortunately a lot of angst, and a lot of fear, and a lot of doubt. And eventually a lot of wonderful people, like soldiers, like men and women that are out there trying to do the best they can, they come back being wounded on many levels.
I’ve always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territory. Give me land, give me land.
Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.
A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.
You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.
‘Evil men have no songs.’ How is it that the Russians have songs?
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.
Do not borrow the productions of other men’s brains and pens and recite them as a lesson; but make the most of the talents, the brain power, that God has given you.
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God’s universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.
Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men – the man he is and the man he wants to be.
Men are what their mothers made them.
Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.
Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one’s mind.
I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won’t presume to probe into the faults of others.
Honor is simply the morality of superior men.
Death can never kill an idea. Ideas are more powerful than death. Ideas outlive men and can never be destroyed.
Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
Men and women aren’t the same. And they won’t be the same. That doesn’t mean that they can’t be treated fairly.
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
Everyone is allowed to be vulnerable. I think women and men and dogs and cats and ants and aliens can all express themselves and be vulnerable.
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
All men are equal before fish.
Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.
There are two types of men: the great and the small.
Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
When I go back to Texas, I travel the state, and I see people all the time who come up to me, men and women across Texas, and they grab me by the shoulder, and they’re afraid. They say, ‘Ted, you know, I just lost my health insurance. I got a child with diabetes. I’m scared. Please stop this from happening.’
