Quotes about Men
War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.
— Mark Twain
By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.
— Mark Twain
A group of men in evening clothes looks like a flock of crows, and is just about as inspiring.
— Mark Twain
When I was a child there were many witches, and they bewitched both cattle and men, especially children.
— Martin Luther
I've never had a dislike for men. I've been badly treated by some. But I've been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.
— Maya Angelou
I believe that if you are talking about economic stress, the systems of the world are very fragile, and if we put our hope and trust in the systems that men have created, they will guarantee failure.
— Myles Munroe
Men always have their reasons. But the fact is that they always wind up leaving.
— Paulo Coelho
The absence of sentimentalism in Christ's relations with men is what makes His tenderness so exquisitely touching.
— Phillips Brooks
Much of the wisdom of the world is not wisdom, and the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame, and are not writers.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies.
— Henry David Thoreau
In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.
— Henry David Thoreau
The Grecian are youthful and erring and fallen gods, with the vices of men, but in many important respects essentially of the divine race.
— Henry David Thoreau