You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
75 wisdom & wit from Benjamin Disraeli
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
18 wisdom & wit from Margaret Mead
All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
14 sayings from James Thurber
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
14 other quotes from Joseph Conrad
Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
58 more thoughts from Thomas Carlyle
Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.
5 wisdom & wit from Max Lerner
Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.
14 sayings from Heinrich Heine
I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.
10 quotes from Marlene Dietrich
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
21 more wisdom & wit from Jane Austen
It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.
12 sayings from George MacDonald
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
75 other sayings from Benjamin Disraeli
Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.
8 views from Stephen Leacock
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.
58 other thoughts from Thomas Carlyle
Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
58 views from Thomas Carlyle
Neutral men are the devil's allies.
5 quotes from Edwin Hubbel Chapin
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
58 wisdom & wit from Thomas Carlyle
No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
7 quotes from Edvard Munch
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
58 other views from Thomas Carlyle
No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.
5 quotes from Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
75 views from Benjamin Disraeli
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
14 other quotes from Joseph Conrad
The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
58 quotes from Thomas Carlyle
There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.
12 quotes from J. Paul Getty
There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.
5 thoughts from Black Elk
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
58 more sayings from Thomas Carlyle
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
8 thoughts from Matthew Arnold
We cannot learn men from books.
75 more quotes from Benjamin Disraeli
When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions their reasons are always different.
46 quotes from George Santayana
Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
36 wisdom & wit from Lord Byron
Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
30 quotes from Charles Caleb Colton
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
12 views from Quintilian
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
10 more quotes from Charles de Secondat
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
30 quotes from Charles Caleb Colton
Nine men in ten are would be suicides.
96 quotes from Benjamin Franklin
Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
67 more sayings from Francis Bacon
Observe all men, thyself most.
96 views from Benjamin Franklin
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
41 quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.
Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
13 more quotes from Dante Alighieri
Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
24 other wisdom & wit from Franklin D. Roosevelt
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
15 wisdom & wit from Moliere
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
40 sayings from William James
The less men think, the more they talk.
14 quotes from Charles de Montesquieu
The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
56 more views from Khalil Gibran
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
37 views from Edmund Burke
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
67 wisdom & wit from Francis Bacon
The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
24 more quotes from Franklin D. Roosevelt
The worst men often give the best advice.
67 sayings from Francis Bacon
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
37 other views from Edmund Burke
These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.
5 more quotes from Christopher Columbus
They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.
11 wisdom & wit from Douglas MacArthur
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
37 other quotes from Edmund Burke
We have guided missiles and misguided men.
41 more quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.
We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.
14 more sayings from Charles de Montesquieu
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
12 sayings from Daniel Webster
When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
37 wisdom & wit from Edmund Burke
When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
96 sayings from Benjamin Franklin
When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
13 more sayings from Alexander Hamilton
Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
30 quotes from Virginia Woolf
Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.
45 more quotes from Thomas Fuller
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
96 other thoughts from Benjamin Franklin
Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
67 quotes from Francis Bacon
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
67 more quotes from Francis Bacon
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
67 quotes from Francis Bacon
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
41 more quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.
Adversity causes some men to break others to break records.
14 other quotes from William Arthur Ward
All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.
12 more quotes from Thomas a Kempis
All men of action are dreamers.
2 other quotes from James Huneker
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
25 sayings from Orison Swett Marden
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.
16 other wisdom & wit from Isaac Asimov
All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.
24 other thoughts from W. C. Fields
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
45 other quotes from Thomas Fuller
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
67 other thoughts from Francis Bacon
But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
67 other sayings from Francis Bacon
By indignities men come to dignities.
67 quotes from Francis Bacon
By nature, men love newfangledness.
6 quotes from Geoffrey Chaucer
Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
67 other thoughts from Francis Bacon
Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.
4 more wisdom & wit from Aldo Leopold
Content makes poor men rich discontent makes rich men poor.
96 views from Benjamin Franklin
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
36 more quotes from Lord Byron
Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities strong men make them.
25 other sayings from Orison Swett Marden
Great hopes make great men.
45 sayings from Thomas Fuller
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
30 wisdom & wit from Charles Caleb Colton
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
96 quotes from Benjamin Franklin
It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.
37 quotes from Edmund Burke
Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
30 quotes from Charles Caleb Colton
Men are like the stars some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.
7 other quotes from Jose Marti
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
24 views from Franklin D. Roosevelt
A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.
6 quotes from Lana Turner
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
73 other quotes from Victor Hugo
An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
8 more quotes from Charles Darwin
Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
30 sayings from George Washington
Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.
12 more quotes from George Jean Nathan
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
73 thoughts from Victor Hugo
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
73 thoughts from Victor Hugo
Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
3 other thoughts from W. E. B. Du Bois
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
30 sayings from George Washington
God is in all men, but all men are not in God that is why we suffer.
10 sayings from Ramakrishna
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
29 quotes from Arthur Schopenhauer
Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
26 other wisdom & wit from Charles Dickens
I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.
73 quotes from Victor Hugo
I saw six men kicking and punching the mother-in-law. My neighbour said 'Are you going to help?' I said 'No, six should be enough.'
3 sayings from Les Dawson
If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.
24 views from Ayn Rand
It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.
3 more quotes from James Otis
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
26 thoughts from Charles Dickens
Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.
30 quotes from George Washington
Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
7 other quotes from Lawrence Durrell
Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
26 more sayings from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies.
29 other views from Arthur Schopenhauer
Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
11 sayings from James Joyce
Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.
5 other quotes from Richard Whately
Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
73 sayings from Victor Hugo
Men do not fail they give up trying.
2 other sayings from Elihu Root
Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.
73 quotes from Victor Hugo
Men, their rights, and nothing more women, their rights, and nothing less.
14 quotes from Susan B. Anthony
Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.
24 wisdom & wit from Ayn Rand
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
47 thoughts from Abraham Lincoln
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
26 thoughts from Charles Dickens
Reputation is what men and women think of us character is what God and angels know of us.
31 quotes from Thomas Paine
Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
14 sayings from Susan B. Anthony
The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.
26 thoughts from Charles Dickens
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
30 more sayings from George Washington
The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.
26 more thoughts from Charles Dickens
The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
73 other quotes from Victor Hugo
The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
45 wisdom & wit from John Ruskin
The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.
30 more quotes from George Washington
The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
24 quotes from Ayn Rand
These are the times that try men's souls.
31 quotes from Thomas Paine
These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
47 quotes from Abraham Lincoln
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
31 sayings from Thomas Paine
Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.
24 views from Ayn Rand
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
47 quotes from Abraham Lincoln
What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?
33 other wisdom & wit from Erma Bombeck
When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
31 views from Thomas Paine
Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.
2 sayings from Anthony Burgess
Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.
12 more wisdom & wit from George Jean Nathan
All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
27 quotes from James Madison
All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.
17 quotes from Chief Joseph
An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.
23 more thoughts from Vincent Van Gogh
As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.
12 wisdom & wit from Julius Caesar
Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
50 more thoughts from Robert Frost
For tis not in mere death that men die most.
9 more views from Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Force always attracts men of low morality.
105 wisdom & wit from Albert Einstein
If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?
23 more views from Vincent Van Gogh
If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
27 other thoughts from James Madison
If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.
3 other quotes from David Livingstone
It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.
12 quotes from Julius Caesar
It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.
12 other thoughts from Julius Caesar
Men are not against you they are merely for themselves.
2 quotes from Gene Fowler
Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.
12 views from Julius Caesar
Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.
5 quotes from Knute Rockne
Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.
11 other quotes from Rene Descartes
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
16 quotes from Erich Fromm
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
4 more views from Channing Pollock
The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.
3 quotes from George Berkeley
Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.
17 sayings from Chief Joseph
Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.
3 other thoughts from Charlotte Whitton
Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
21 quotes from Bette Davis
Men exist for the sake of one another.
41 wisdom & wit from Marcus Aurelius
Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
5 quotes from Charlotte Bronte
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
27 more thoughts from Leonardo da Vinci
Men often act knowingly against their interest.
16 quotes from David Hume
Men shut their doors against a setting sun.
81 quotes from William Shakespeare
Men's vows are women's traitors!
81 wisdom & wit from William Shakespeare
Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.
20 wisdom & wit from Anatole France
Strong women only marry weak men.
21 quotes from Bette Davis
The evil that men do lives after them the good is oft interred with their bones.
81 more sayings from William Shakespeare
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
27 quotes from Leonardo da Vinci
The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
7 quotes from Abraham Maslow
There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
81 quotes from William Shakespeare
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
70 wisdom & wit from Thomas Jefferson
There would be no great men if there were no little ones.
12 more wisdom & wit from George Herbert
Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.
25 other quotes from Charles Baudelaire
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
70 sayings from Thomas Jefferson
We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
10 other quotes from Booker T. Washington
Women may fall when there's no strength in men.
81 other quotes from William Shakespeare
As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.
70 quotes from Thomas Jefferson
As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other.
4 views from Giacomo Casanova
But men are men the best sometimes forget.
81 quotes from William Shakespeare
Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
81 other sayings from William Shakespeare
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land the great ones eat up the little ones.
81 views from William Shakespeare
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
13 other wisdom & wit from Immanuel Kant
Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.
16 more wisdom & wit from David Hume
I am an agnostic I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
14 quotes from Clarence Darrow
I have no ambition to govern men it is a painful and thankless office.
70 quotes from Thomas Jefferson
I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.
70 quotes from Thomas Jefferson
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.
81 quotes from William Shakespeare
If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.
81 more wisdom & wit from William Shakespeare
It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
70 thoughts from Thomas Jefferson
It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
4 sayings from Marguerite Duras
Labor disgraces no man unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
6 more quotes from Ulysses S. Grant
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
81 quotes from William Shakespeare
Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.
41 other sayings from Marcus Aurelius
Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
81 other quotes from William Shakespeare
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
11 views from Charlie Chaplin
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
81 views from William Shakespeare
A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
30 wisdom & wit from Walt Whitman
A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
135 sayings from Ralph Waldo Emerson
All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner!'
46 quotes from John F. Kennedy
Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
52 more wisdom & wit from Gilbert K. Chesterton
Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.
26 other wisdom & wit from Sigmund Freud
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
46 wisdom & wit from John F. Kennedy
Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
135 more quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
52 quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
3 more quotes from Clifton Paul Fadiman
Good men must not obey the laws too well.
135 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
135 other quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.
135 sayings from Ralph Waldo Emerson
History does nothing it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
21 sayings from Karl Marx
I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
22 quotes from Soren Kierkegaard
Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
53 quotes from Honore de Balzac
In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
135 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
23 quotes from Niccolo Machiavelli
It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
5 views from Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
21 quotes from Karl Marx
Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.
53 other quotes from Honore de Balzac
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
43 views from Alexander Pope
Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
135 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
45 more quotes from Bertrand Russell
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
26 quotes from Sigmund Freud
Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.
23 more wisdom & wit from Niccolo Machiavelli
Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.
26 sayings from Sigmund Freud
Men are what their mothers made them.
135 views from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
53 quotes from Honore de Balzac
Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.
23 more views from E. W. Howe
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
135 other thoughts from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
23 other wisdom & wit from Niccolo Machiavelli
Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.
23 sayings from Niccolo Machiavelli
Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
23 wisdom & wit from Niccolo Machiavelli
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
45 quotes from Bertrand Russell
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.
135 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
21 more quotes from Karl Marx
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
22 other wisdom & wit from Soren Kierkegaard
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
135 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.
5 more quotes from Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Produce great men, the rest follows.
30 wisdom & wit from Walt Whitman
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
135 more quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
23 sayings from E. W. Howe
Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.
52 quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton
Study men, not historians.
26 quotes from Harry S. Truman
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
23 views from Niccolo Machiavelli
The most positive men are the most credulous.
43 more quotes from Alexander Pope
The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
135 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
135 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
135 more wisdom & wit from Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
135 more wisdom & wit from Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.
23 other thoughts from E. W. Howe
Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
135 sayings from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
135 more sayings from Ralph Waldo Emerson
We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.
46 more quotes from John F. Kennedy
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.
3 other quotes from Ho Chi Minh
Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.
52 quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
53 more wisdom & wit from Marilyn Monroe
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
53 quotes from Marilyn Monroe
'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'
17 quotes from Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'
17 more views from Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
17 more sayings from Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.
9 other views from Charles Spurgeon
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
58 other views from Henry Ward Beecher
All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
57 other quotes from Blaise Pascal
Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'
53 quotes from Marilyn Monroe
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
58 views from Henry Ward Beecher
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
10 quotes from John Maynard Keynes
Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world.
53 other views from Marilyn Monroe
God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
58 quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.
6 more thoughts from Charles Kingsley
I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'
28 more sayings from William Butler Yeats
I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.
53 other sayings from Marilyn Monroe
I've found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.
53 quotes from Marilyn Monroe
If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
57 sayings from Blaise Pascal
If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!
53 thoughts from Marilyn Monroe
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
14 wisdom & wit from Thomas Hardy
Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.
9 other views from Charles Spurgeon
Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.
53 thoughts from Marilyn Monroe
Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
47 more quotes from George Orwell
Men are only as great as they are kind.
59 quotes from Elbert Hubbard
Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
57 other quotes from Blaise Pascal
Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.
53 quotes from Marilyn Monroe
Men blaspheme what they do not know.
57 sayings from Blaise Pascal
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
47 views from George Orwell
Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
57 other quotes from Blaise Pascal
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
57 more quotes from Blaise Pascal
Men often take their imagination for their heart and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.
57 thoughts from Blaise Pascal
Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.
53 views from Marilyn Monroe
Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.
17 wisdom & wit from Antoine de Saint-Exupery
One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.
17 quotes from Antoine de Saint-Exupery
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
59 views from Elbert Hubbard
Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.
17 thoughts from Antoine de Saint-Exupery
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
47 quotes from George Orwell
Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
47 other views from George Orwell
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
58 thoughts from Henry Ward Beecher
The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.
53 quotes from Marilyn Monroe
The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
57 quotes from Blaise Pascal
The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.
9 quotes from Charles Spurgeon
The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
59 more quotes from Elbert Hubbard
The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
57 thoughts from Blaise Pascal
The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.
53 more wisdom & wit from Marilyn Monroe
The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
28 more quotes from William Butler Yeats
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
57 quotes from Blaise Pascal
To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
12 more sayings from Marquis de Sade
To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
2 quotes from Robert Schumann
Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.
57 other quotes from Blaise Pascal
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
47 quotes from George Orwell
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
47 quotes from George Orwell
When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.
58 thoughts from Henry Ward Beecher
When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.
53 views from Marilyn Monroe
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
115 views from George Bernard Shaw
Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.
45 other quotes from Aldous Huxley
Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau
Men have become the tools of their tools.
117 other sayings from Henry David Thoreau
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw
Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
14 views from Edward Young
Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.
115 other views from George Bernard Shaw
Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.
2 sayings from Thurgood Marshall
Power does not corrupt men fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
115 other views from George Bernard Shaw
So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
45 more thoughts from Aldous Huxley
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
117 other quotes from Henry David Thoreau
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
45 wisdom & wit from Aldous Huxley
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
45 quotes from Aldous Huxley
The law will never make a man free it is men who have got to make the law free.
117 more sayings from Henry David Thoreau
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
117 sayings from Henry David Thoreau
There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
19 sayings from Alexis de Tocqueville
Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
32 views from Henry Ford
Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.
115 sayings from George Bernard Shaw
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
117 more quotes from Henry David Thoreau
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
115 wisdom & wit from George Bernard Shaw
We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.
17 views from Calvin Coolidge
What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.
45 other quotes from Aldous Huxley
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
14 other quotes from Robert A. Heinlein
All brave men love for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
8 thoughts from Nathaniel Hawthorne
All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau
All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.
6 quotes from Hilaire Belloc
All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.
5 quotes from Red Skelton
All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
7 wisdom & wit from John Quincy Adams
Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
15 quotes from Jean de La Fontaine
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
115 other sayings from George Bernard Shaw
Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw
Dreaming men are haunted men.
2 thoughts from Stephen Vincent Benet
I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.
32 views from Henry Ford
I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.
117 thoughts from Henry David Thoreau
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.
117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau
Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.
117 thoughts from Henry David Thoreau
It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
117 more wisdom & wit from Henry David Thoreau
It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.
17 quotes from Calvin Coolidge
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
18 sayings from Marcel Proust
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
115 more quotes from George Bernard Shaw
Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
115 wisdom & wit from George Bernard Shaw
Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
19 thoughts from E. B. White
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
117 sayings from Henry David Thoreau
Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
117 sayings from Henry David Thoreau
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
14 sayings from Ogden Nash
A man's kiss is his signature.
31 sayings from Mae West
All men are equal before fish.
20 sayings from Herbert Hoover
All men are liable to error and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
15 quotes from John Locke
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
15 sayings from Walter Scott
All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
26 quotes from Jean de la Bruyere
All religions have been made by men.
50 sayings from Napoleon Bonaparte
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
3 thoughts from Francois Fenelon
As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!
16 views from Coco Chanel
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.
10 views from Maurice Maeterlinck
I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.
16 quotes from Coco Chanel
I have always supported measures and principles and not men.
5 quotes from Davy Crockett
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
15 more sayings from John Locke
I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men?
31 sayings from Mae West
I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.
31 quotes from Mae West
It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.
26 more thoughts from Jean de la Bruyere
It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
31 other sayings from Mae West
Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.
7 other quotes from Marcus Garvey
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
50 quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte
Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
50 quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte
Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
50 more quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte
Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.
7 more sayings from Marcus Garvey
Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
22 more sayings from Samuel Richardson
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
20 quotes from Herbert Hoover
Personally, I like two types of men - domestic and foreign.
31 sayings from Mae West
Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
31 sayings from Mae West
The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
5 more quotes from Maria Montessori
There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
50 other wisdom & wit from Napoleon Bonaparte
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
15 quotes from John Locke
There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
50 quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
13 quotes from Herman Melville
When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
50 sayings from Napoleon Bonaparte
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
31 more thoughts from Mae West
Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.
14 thoughts from F. Scott Fitzgerald
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
90 quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later for another thing, they die earlier.
60 views from H. L. Mencken
Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.
90 quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.
6 more quotes from Malcolm De Chazal
Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.
90 thoughts from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.
90 more sayings from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
90 quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
90 views from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
90 quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
60 thoughts from H. L. Mencken
There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
90 other thoughts from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.
90 quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
90 quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.
90 other sayings from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
To die for an idea it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
60 quotes from H. L. Mencken
We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes.
90 other thoughts from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
60 views from H. L. Mencken
Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
8 more views from Walter Lippmann
A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.
90 thoughts from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
4 sayings from Roald Dahl
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
60 other views from H. L. Mencken
Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
63 quotes from Samuel Johnson
Bachelors know more about women than married men if they didn't they'd be married too.
60 wisdom & wit from H. L. Mencken
Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
27 more quotes from Kin Hubbard
Few things are impracticable in themselves and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
90 other wisdom & wit from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
60 thoughts from H. L. Mencken
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
21 wisdom & wit from Leo Tolstoy
Honor is simply the morality of superior men.
60 other thoughts from H. L. Mencken
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
21 other quotes from Leo Tolstoy
In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
8 other wisdom & wit from Walter Lippmann
It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
2 quotes from Samuel Adams
It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
90 more quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.
90 quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.
6 other sayings from Emil Zatopek
Make no little plans they have no magic to stir men's blood.
2 quotes from Daniel Burnham
Many men are contemptuous of riches few can give them away.
90 views from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.
27 quotes from Kin Hubbard
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
60 wisdom & wit from H. L. Mencken
Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
60 quotes from H. L. Mencken
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
100 more quotes from Oscar Wilde
Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.
103 more wisdom & wit from Friedrich Nietzsche
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
100 quotes from Oscar Wilde
Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
28 views from Napoleon Hill
Men marry because they are tired women, because they are curious both are disappointed.
100 wisdom & wit from Oscar Wilde
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
15 quotes from William Penn
Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?
7 quotes from Jean Giraudoux
More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
28 other quotes from Napoleon Hill
Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
15 thoughts from Desiderius Erasmus
Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.
4 quotes from Franz Liszt
Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.
103 sayings from Friedrich Nietzsche
Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.
36 more views from Theodore Roosevelt
Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.
5 more quotes from Le Corbusier
Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.
103 more sayings from Friedrich Nietzsche
The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice!
33 wisdom & wit from Dwight D. Eisenhower
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
28 other sayings from Napoleon Hill
Time takes away the grief of men.
15 views from Desiderius Erasmus
Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
100 more sayings from Mahatma Gandhi
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
103 quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
8 other wisdom & wit from Ezra Pound
'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?
103 more thoughts from Friedrich Nietzsche
A government of laws, and not of men.
18 views from John Adams
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
103 sayings from Friedrich Nietzsche
A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.
3 other thoughts from Mario Puzo
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
100 other quotes from Oscar Wilde
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
36 other sayings from Theodore Roosevelt
Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.
103 quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche
I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
100 quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
100 thoughts from Oscar Wilde
In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
103 quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche
It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
100 other views from Mahatma Gandhi
It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.
103 other views from Friedrich Nietzsche
Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
100 thoughts from Mahatma Gandhi
Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.
100 quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
100 other thoughts from Oscar Wilde
All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.
78 views from Voltaire
All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.
78 quotes from Voltaire
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
13 quotes from Andrew Carnegie
Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.
52 views from Albert Camus
Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
19 other thoughts from Charles de Gaulle
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence they go stark, raving mad.
10 other quotes from Fyodor Dostoevsky
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
5 wisdom & wit from Abigail Adams
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
32 sayings from William Blake
I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.
52 quotes from George Eliot
It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
22 quotes from Andre Gide
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
20 more quotes from George S. Patton
Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
25 quotes from C. S. Lewis
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves they therefore remain bound.
12 more views from James Allen
Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
52 more wisdom & wit from Albert Camus
Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
9 wisdom & wit from Pope John XXIII
Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
52 wisdom & wit from Albert Camus
Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.
78 other quotes from Voltaire
Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.
52 more quotes from Albert Camus
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
74 thoughts from Winston Churchill
Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.
14 wisdom & wit from Laurence Sterne
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
78 more views from Voltaire
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
19 views from Charles de Gaulle
Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
78 views from Voltaire
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
19 other thoughts from Charles de Gaulle
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
52 sayings from George Eliot
There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
78 more wisdom & wit from Voltaire
Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
78 thoughts from Voltaire
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.
20 quotes from George S. Patton
What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
32 other wisdom & wit from William Blake
What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
25 other sayings from C. S. Lewis
Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.
4 views from Dorothy Day
You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.
52 sayings from George Eliot