Men Quotes

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

Harry S Truman

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

Henry David Thoreau

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

Henry David Thoreau

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Henry David Thoreau

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

Henry David Thoreau

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

Henry David Thoreau

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

Henry David Thoreau

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

Henry David Thoreau

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

Henry David Thoreau

Shy and proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen.

Henry Taylor

The world knows nothing of its greatest men.

Henry Taylor

Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others.

Henry Taylor

A committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent.

Herbert Beerbohm Tree

I notice that most of the men who tease me about my hair, don't have any.

Holland Taylor

Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.

Howard Thurman

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.

Hunter S. Thompson

Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen.

Henry Vaughan

Without any formal orders to retreat, what was left of the several organizations yielded to a general impulse to abandon the field. Officers and men became controlled by the one thought of getting as far as possible from the enemy.

Henry Villard

The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny.

Henry A. Wallace

I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans.

Herman Wouk

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.

H. G. Wells