Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: men

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

Great hopes make great men.

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

These are the times that try men's souls.

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

I want to congratulate all the men out there who are working diligently to be good fathers whether they are stepfathers, or biological fathers or just spiritual fathers.

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.

Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.

We lived many lives in those whirling campaigns, never sparing ourselves; yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to re-make in the likeness of the former world they knew.

Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

There is something good in men that really yearn for discipline.

Battles are won in the hearts of men.

The difference between men is in energy, in the strong will, in the settled purpose and in the invincible determination.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.

Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.

When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.

There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

Produce great men, the rest follows.

Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.

Yes, the pyramids have been built, but if you give me 300,000 disciplined men and give me 30 years, I could build a bigger one.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

Look! Don't be deceived by appearances - men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock are in the sea!

The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.

Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.