Quotes about Men
Language like this, no doubt, seems foolishness and affectation to the world; but the well-instructed Bible reader will see in it the heartfelt experience of all the brightest saints. It is the language of men like Baxter, and Brainerd, and M'Cheyne. It is the same mind that was in the inspired Apostle Paul. Those that have most light and grace are always the humblest men.
- George Whitefield
I decline to accept the end of men... I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
- William Faulkner
Most men admire Virtue, who follow not her lore.
- John Milton
Since beginningless time and into the never-ending future, men have loved women without telling them, and the Lord has loved them without telling, and the void is not the void because there's nothing to be empty of. Art there, Lord Star? - Diminished is the drizzle that broke my calm.
- Jack Kerouac
I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.
- Mae West
War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind.
- Ayn Rand
Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
- Cormac McCarthy
We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
- Erica Jong
Of all the pursuits open to men, the search for wisdom is most perfect, more sublime, more profitable, and more full of joy.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
- Teresa of Avila
God created the visible world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of his wisdom
- Paulo Coelho