Men Quotes

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

The destinies of men are woven one with the other, and you can turn aside from them no more than you can turn aside from your own.

Success is full of promise till men get it; and then it is last year's nest from which the bird has flown.

God is the poet, men are only the actors.

Feeling creates thought, men willingly agree; but they will not so willingly agree that thought creates feeling, though this is scarcely less true.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

When men cease to fight they cease to be Men.

Women are controlled by men like a currency of the world.

Women are much more honourable than men.

Commitment to great causes makes great men.

Commitment to great causes makes great men.

I long to hear that you have declared an independency. And by the way, in the the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation. That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute, but such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of Master for the more tender and endearing one of Friend. Why, then, not put it out of the power of the vicious and the Lawless to use us with cruelty and indignity with impunity? Men of Sense in all Ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex; regard us then as Beings placed by Providence under your protection, and in imitation of the Supreme Being make use of that power only for our happiness.

Men who content themselves with the semblance of truth, and a display of words, talk much of our obligations to Great Britain for protection. Had she a single eye to our advantage? A nation of shopkeepers are very seldom so disinterested.

All men, rich and poor, must aid one another materially and personally