Quotes about men
men popularity slave
I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them. Ben Jonson
men law order
Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
men wrecks strange
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man's dearer than to himself.
men giving glory
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
men law people
Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
men silence speech
Silence in woman is like speech in man.
men soul infinite
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
men shadow mistress
Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
men way salt
A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t' his other virtues, They're all unseason'd without it.
men smoking orangutans
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
men hands color
Painting dissolves the forms at its command, or tends to; it melts them into color. Drawing, on the other hand, goes about resolving forms, giving edge and essence to things. To see shapes clearly, one outlines them--whether on paper or in the mind. Therefore, Michelangelo, a profoundly cultivated man, called drawing the basis of all knowledge whatsoever. Alexandra Ripley
men women
There is a fundamental difference between men and women - women need romance, men need intrigue. Sherry Argov
men logic
Logic never attracts men to the point of carrying them away. Alexis Carrel
men responsible given
To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know
men important
In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable.
men people house
In towns it is impossible to prevent men from assembling, getting excited together and forming sudden passionate resolves. Towns are like great meeting houses with all the inhabitants as members. In them the people wield immense influence over their magistrates and often carry their desires into execution without intermediaries. Alexis de Tocqueville
men multicultural-society religion
Though it is very important for man as an individual that his religion should be true, that is not the case for society. Society has nothing to fear or hope from another life; what is most important for it is not that all citizens profess the true religion but that they should profess religion.
men democracy affection
In democratic centuries, on the contrary, when the duties of each individual toward the species are much clearer, devotion toward one man becomes rarer: the bond of human affections is extended and loosened.
men opinion equal
Men seldom take the opinion of their equal, or of a man like themselves, upon trust.
men law differences
No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences between them; and though different men may sometimes find it their interest to combine for the same purposes, they will never make it their pleasure.
men faces feels
The more alike men are, the weaker each feels in the face of all.
men labor humans
The most durable monument of human labor is that which recalls the wretchedness and nothingness of man.
men aspect animated
The aspect of American society is animated, because men and things are always changing; but it is monotonous, because all the changes are alike.
men law constraints
Nature secretly avenges herself for the constraint imposed upon her by the laws of man.
men drawing faults
I do not find fault with equality for drawing men into the pursuit of forbidden pleasures, but for absorbing them entirely in the search for the pleasures that are permitted.
men law ideas
In America, conscription is unknown; men are enlisted for payment. Compulsory recruitment is so alien to the ideas and so foreign to the customs of the people of the United States that I doubt whether they would ever dare to introduce it into their law.
men democracy citizens
No men are less addicted to reverie than the citizens of a democracy.
men two liberty
The taste which men have for liberty and that which they feel for equality are, in fact, two different things...among democratic nations they are two unequal things.
men details-of-life forgotten
It must not be forgotten that it is especially dangerous to enslave men in the minor details of life.
men enemy
Men will not receive the truth from their enemies, and it is seldom offered to them by their friends....
men thinking support
In the absence of government each man learns to think, to act for himself, without counting on the support of an outside force which, however vigilant one supposes it to be, can never answer all social needs. Man, thus accustomed to seek his well-being only through his own efforts, raises himself in his own opinion as he does in the opinion of others; his soul becomes larger and stronger at the same time.
men thinking two
In the principle of equality I very clearly discern two tendencies; one leading the mind of every man to untried thoughts, the other prohibiting him from thinking at all.
men law age
The territorial aristocracy of former ages was either bound by law, or thought itself bound by usage, to come to the relief of its serving-men, and to relieve their distress. But the manufacturing aristocracy of our age first impoverishes and debases the men who serve it, and then abandons them to be supported by the charity of the public.