Quotes of: Literary-men Keyword

Admiration of great men, living or dead, naturally evokes imitation of them in a greater or less degree.

Samuel Smiles

Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.

Sydney Smith

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

Thomas Carlyle

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

William Shakespeare

There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We hold that what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot morally do, and government, representing many millions of men, cannot do.

Auberon Herbert

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

Epicurus

Most women seem to be required to pit themselves against men in dramatic situations, and the men got to pit themselves against ideas or God.

Judy Davis

How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It's what men have kept secret for so long.

Steve Harvey

Marriage encourages the men and women who together create life to unite in a bond for the protection of children.

Jack Kingston

Some men fish all their lives without knowing it is not really the fish they are after.

Henry David Thoreau

Some men borrow books; some men steal books; and others beg presentation copies from the author.

James Jeffrey Roche

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

John Quincy Adams

We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.

Jimmy Carter

If two men or two women can marry, then there is no way a court could deny three men and two women or any combination thereof.

James Dobson

In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act.

Jacques Ellul

I truly cannot imagine men with men, women with women, doing what they were not physically created to do, without abnormal stress and misbehavior.

Jerry Falwell

Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.

J. Paul Getty

We are today, in this country, convulsed by the situation in Iraq. It is an extraordinary crisis. It is taxing our men and women in uniform, and it is certainly taxing our resolve.

Jack Reed

Men and women are like right and left hands; it doesn't make sense not to use both.

Jeannette Rankin

I was raised with those principals and values and ethics that came out of the men and women that served. But this generation doesn't quite know; they haven't been tested.

Jack Scalia