Quotes about Men
He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.
— GK Chesterton
Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.
— Henry David Thoreau
I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark, though the witches are all hung.
— Henry David Thoreau
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
— Henry David Thoreau
You take all the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it.
— Henry Ford
Labour is the human element which makes the fruitful seasons of the earth useful to men.
— Henry Ford
Our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus every boy is a challenge to his elders.
— Herbert Hoover
In the same way I have always regarded boxing as a first-class sport to encourage in the Young Men's Christian Association.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Do not let your peace depend on the words of men. Their thinking well or badly of you does not make you different from what you are. Where are true peace and glory? Are they not in Me? He who neither cares to please men nor fears to displease them will enjoy great peace, for all unrest and distraction of the senses arise out of disorderly love and vain fear.
— Thomas a Kempis
SHUN the gossip of men as much as possible, for discussion of worldly affairs, even though sincere, is a great distraction inasmuch as we are quickly ensnared and captivated by vanity.
— Thomas a Kempis