Makes Men Quotes

Culture makes all men gentle.

— Menander

The pursuit of the difficult makes men strong

— George W. Romney

Machinery makes men like itself.

— Gerald Stanley Lee

Fear makes men believe the worst.

— Quintus Curtius Rufus

The law, that is what makes men stay honest.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Makes of men date, like makes of car.

— Elizabeth Bowen

Sorrow makes men sincere.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Service makes men competent.

— Lyman Abbott

O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.

— Ben Jonson

Good order makes men bold, and confusion, cowards.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

The Gospel does not abrogate God's law, but it makes men love it with all of their hearts.

— Anonymous

The Training which Makes Men Happiest in themselves ... also Makes Them Most Serviceable to Others

— John Ruskin

Challenge is what makes men. It will be the end when men stop looking for new challenges.

— Edmund Hillary

“What makes men so dangerous is that we are too stupid to know we are beaten.”

— Miles Cameron

“What makes men so dangerous is that we are too stupid to know when we are beaten.”

— Miles Cameron

Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.

— Thomas Mann

We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants.

— Herbert Hoover

“The Drowned God makes men,” old King Urron Redhand had once said, thousands of years ago, “but it’s men who make crowns.”

— Anonymous

Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions.

— Marianne Faithfull

Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

“And that's what makes men happy, believing in the mystery and importance of their own individual lives.”

— Willa Cather

“Finally, we come to the real thing, the thing that makes men men, the thing were born for, Todd. War.”

— Patrick Ness

And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like…

— Oscar Wilde

One common calamity makes men extremely affect each other, though they differ in every other particular

— Richard Steele

“As humans, after all, we become that which we seek. Dairy farming makes men steady and reliable and temperate; deer hunting makes…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

The power of this experience [fatherhood] can never be explained. It is one of those joyful codings that rumbles in the species…

— Kent Nerburn

Death (or its allusion) makes men precious and pathetic. They are moving because of their phantom condition; every act they execute may…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades; shoe makers hang out a gigantic shoe; jewelers a monster watch, and…

— Daniel Webster

All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control…

— Isaiah Berlin

Turtle makes all men equal.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Adversity makes men wise but not rich.

— John Ray

“Makes of men date, like makes of cars...”

— Elizabeth Bowen

Nothing makes men sharper than want.

— Joseph Addison

Too much philosophy makes men mad.

— Alan Judd

Reflection makes men cowards.

— William Hazlitt

What excellent fools religion makes of men.

— Ben Jonson

War doesn't make boys men, it makes men dead.

— Ken Gillespie

Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.

— Henry Ford

“It doesn't take great men to do things, but it is doing things that makes men great.”

— Arnold Glasgow

I have been given nothing. God makes men what they are.

— William Wallace