Quotes about Men
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
In the religion of all nations a purity is hinted at, which, I fear, men never attain to.
- Henry David Thoreau
Men reverence one another, not yet God.
- Henry David Thoreau
We inspire friendship in men when we have contracted friendship with the gods.
- Henry David Thoreau
Books are the true metempsychosis,--they are the symbol and presage of immortality. The dead men are scattered, and none shall find them. Behold they are here! they do but sleep.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of men.
- Henry Ward Beecher