Quotes about Men
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
Morality is character and conduct such as is required by the circle or community in which the man's life happens to be placed. It shows how much good men require of us.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The idea of Jehovah was born here... Out of the rude elements of the insignificant thoughts thoughts that are in all men, they reared the transcendent conception of a God.
— Herman Melville
I have a history with charismatic, attractive men who just wear me out.
— Hillary Clinton
And long there he lay, an image of the splendour of the Kings of Men in glory undimmed before the breaking of the world.
— JRR Tolkien
What is here a right towards men, is a duty towards the Creator.
— James Madison