Home » Men Men 1 I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself. Victor Hugo Love, Myself, Men Add to Collection 2 Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary. Victor Hugo Day, Men, Impossible Add to Collection 3 Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers? Victor Hugo War, Men, Civil War Add to Collection 4 Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. Victor Hugo Happiness, Children, Men Add to Collection 5 Men become accustomed to poison by degrees. Victor Hugo Men, Become, Poison Add to Collection 6 Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. Victor Hugo Adversity, Men, Prosperity Add to Collection 7 The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human. Victor Hugo Mountains, Sea, Men Add to Collection 8 A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan. Martin Luther King, Jr Death, Spiritual, Men Add to Collection 9 Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial. Martin Luther King, Jr Religion, Men, Economic Add to Collection 10 Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think. Martin Luther King, Jr Men, Thinking, Brainy Add to Collection 11 The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind. Woodrow Wilson Men, Country, Satisfy Add to Collection 12 I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world. Woodrow Wilson Men, Government, Country Add to Collection 13 Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. Woodrow Wilson Men, World, Consequences Add to Collection 14 The history of liberty is a history of resistance. Woodrow Wilson Challenge, Brave, Men Add to Collection 15 There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath. Woodrow Wilson Vision, Men, America Add to Collection 16 One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat. Woodrow Wilson Great, Men, Government Add to Collection 17 The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives. William James Men, Ideas Add to Collection 18 How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure. William James Happiness, Men, Secret Add to Collection 19 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. William Butler Yeats Child, Wife, Men Add to Collection 20 I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.' William Butler Yeats Beauty, Beautiful, Men Add to Collection 21 The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober. William Butler Yeats Men, Drunk, Worst Add to Collection 22 What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care. William Blake Men, Care, Idiot Add to Collection 23 It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only. William Blake God, Men, Angels Add to Collection 24 Great things are done when men and mountains meet. William Blake Men, Mountains, Great Add to Collection 1 2 3 next › last »