Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
All men are equal before fish.
The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers.
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.
In soft regions are born soft men.
I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.
Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.
You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.
You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
Honor is simply the morality of superior men.
It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.
What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought of the hidden and fathomless worlds of strange life which may pulsate in the gulfs beyond the stars, or press hideously upon our own globe in unholy dimensions which only the dead and the moonstruck can glimpse.
To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness. There has to be a social commitment, a social consciousness that joins men together.
He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.
Fidelity and allegiance sworn to the King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by the law of the land; for were that faith and allegiance more than what the law requires, we would swear ourselves slaves and the King absolute; whereas, by the law, we are free men, notwithstanding those oaths.
It takes two men to make one brother.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.
All men of action are dreamers.
If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.
Nothing is possible without men, but nothing lasts without institutions.
Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.
The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.
What do women do when they get together? We sit around and talk! Men, not so much. My theory is that this difference is genetic and dates back to the hunter-gatherer societies, when the men had to be quiet as they hunted, lest they scare away the bison and then everyone starved to death and it was all their fault.
To me, it's not the end of the world if I end up not being with someone. I love romance. I love sex. I love men's company, but I don't feel I have to be married. Men are a wonderful part of life, like chocolate. But my life goes on whether they're there or not.
Men don't care what's on TV. They only care what else is on TV.
A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.
Give to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.
Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.
The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.
A government of laws, and not of men.
No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.
It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself, 'What makes me come alive?' Because what the world - a wife, a child - needs is men who have come alive.