It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

There is nothing so stable as change.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

How do leaders serve their people? They may pay good wages and treat employees with respect.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

My great-grandfather and his two brothers fought at Gettysburg. They were in artillery, and they survived the war, thank goodness. So I revere what they did. I think their motivations were honorable when they undertook the war and participated in it along with other Southerners.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

It is right to give every man his due.

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane… There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

Physical elegance, which is what I am talking about here, comes from the body. This is no superficial matter, but rather the way that man found to honour the way he places his two feet on the ground.

I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We’re very different. I wouldn’t make that comparison at all, and I don’t mean to disrespect Madonna: she’s a nice lady, and she’s had a fantastic, huge career – biggest pop star of all time.

We don’t have to guess what Mitt Romney would have done if he were president. Because he told us. He said we should let foreclosures – and I quote – ‚hit the bottom‘ so the market could – I quote – ‚run its course.‘

Where there is love there is life.

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Words are loaded pistols.

I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put – without delay, and with tenderness – back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.

What’s with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?

Men have become the tools of their tools.

In married life three is company and two none.

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

I believe that Jesus was, you know, the Son of God. And I understand that… we need to be really, really respectful to people who find that ridiculous and… preposterous.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can’t it get us out?

Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.