Living Men Quotes
21 quotes by 19 authors
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In less than eight years "The Origin of Species" has produced conviction in the minds of a majority of the most eminent living men of…
— Alfred Russel Wallace
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The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men.
— Minot Judson Savage
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To kill sin is the work of living men; where men are dead (as all unbelievers, the best of them, are dead), sin is alive,…
— John Owen
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Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.
— William Wordsworth
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If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest…
— Romain Rolland
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If there is one place on the face of the earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very…
— Romain Rolland
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But search the land of living men, Where wilt thou find their like again?
— Walter Scott
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The Living God alone can make us living men; the mighty God alone can make us mighty men; the loving God alone can make us…
— Peter Forsyth
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Indeed Christianity passes. Passes - it has gone! It has littered the beaches of life with churches, cathedrals, shrines and crucifixes, prejudices and intolerances, like…
— H.G. Wells
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Times before you, when even the living men were Antiquities; when the living might exceed the dead, and to depart this world, could not be…
— Thomas Browne
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I have seen men march to the wars, and then I have watched their homeward tread, and they brought back bodies of living men, But…
— Edmund Vance Cooke
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By educating women to use all their brains, men will not only be just, but will also ensure the future of a new social order…
— Eugenio Maria de Hostos
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The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
— Clarence Darrow
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Suddenly all those careful preparations disintegrated as predators far more dangerous than the walking dead proved what all wise killers already knew: that nothing was…
— Jonathan Maberry
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If it is true to say of the lazy that they kill time, then it is greatly to be feared that an era which sees…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Living men are bound by time... Thus, their lives have an urgency. This gives them ambition. Makes them choose those things that are most important,…
— Seth Grahame-Smith
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Dead men are not friends to living men, and give them no gifts. (Ghan-buri-Ghan, of allies during war)
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Christ alone, of all the philosophers, magicians, etc., has affirmed eternal life as the most important certainty, the infinity of time, the futility of death,…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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I went to Concord, a young woman from the backwoods, firm in belief that Emerson was the first of living men. He was the modern…
— Rebecca Harding Davis
Who Wrote These Living Men Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 21 Living Men Quotes as follows: