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As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

70 wisdom & wit 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 more wisdom & wit 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 wisdom & wit 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 other views 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 other quotes from Anatole France

We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.

10 quotes from Booker T. Washington

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

23 other quotes from Niccolo Machiavelli

Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.

26 more quotes from Sigmund Freud

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

23 more quotes from Niccolo Machiavelli

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

Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.

5 thoughts from Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

23 more thoughts from Niccolo Machiavelli

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

135 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 wisdom & wit from E. W. Howe

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 views from Ho Chi Minh

Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

52 thoughts from Gilbert K. Chesterton

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

26 more quotes from Sigmund Freud

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

52 more quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

135 quotes 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 quotes from Karl Marx

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

53 sayings 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 more quotes from Alexander Pope

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

135 other quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

17 other wisdom & wit 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 more wisdom & wit from Charles Spurgeon

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.

6 wisdom & wit from Charles Kingsley

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

53 quotes from Marilyn Monroe

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

53 views 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 sayings from Thomas Hardy

Men often take their imagination for their heart and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

57 other quotes from Blaise Pascal

Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.

53 wisdom & wit from Marilyn Monroe

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 more 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 sayings 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

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

57 other wisdom & wit 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 sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

57 other views from Blaise Pascal

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

57 sayings from Blaise Pascal

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

47 more 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 thoughts from George Orwell

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

117 sayings from Henry David Thoreau

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 sayings from John Quincy Adams

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

115 thoughts 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

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

117 other 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 other 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 quotes from Henry David Thoreau

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

12 sayings from Julius Caesar

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

45 wisdom & wit from Aldous Huxley

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

117 sayings from Henry David Thoreau

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

115 sayings from George Bernard Shaw

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.

2 quotes from Thurgood Marshall

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

45 other quotes from Aldous Huxley

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

45 more 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 thoughts from Aldous Huxley

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

117 views from Henry David Thoreau

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

115 more sayings from George Bernard Shaw

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

5 views from Maria Montessori

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

15 sayings 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 more views from Napoleon Bonaparte

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

50 other views from Napoleon Bonaparte

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

14 quotes from Ogden Nash

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

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

10 thoughts 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

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.

26 views from Jean de la Bruyere

A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.

90 quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Few things are impracticable in themselves and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

90 more 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 other quotes from H. L. Mencken

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later for another thing, they die earlier.

60 quotes from H. L. Mencken

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 more thoughts 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

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.

90 views 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 other quotes 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 other quotes 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 have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

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 wisdom & wit from Oscar Wilde

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

100 wisdom & wit 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 quotes from Napoleon Hill

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

103 thoughts from Friedrich Nietzsche

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

100 thoughts from Oscar Wilde

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 more 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 other thoughts from Oscar Wilde

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

100 thoughts from Mahatma Gandhi

Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.

4 quotes from Franz Liszt

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 wisdom & wit from Le Corbusier

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

103 other quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

52 more sayings 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 quotes from Winston Churchill

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

78 quotes from Voltaire

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.

19 sayings from Charles de Gaulle

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

32 thoughts from William Blake

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence they go stark, raving mad.

10 other sayings from Fyodor Dostoevsky

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

5 quotes from Abigail Adams

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

20 other 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 other quotes from C. S. Lewis

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves they therefore remain bound.

12 other quotes from James Allen

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

52 quotes from Albert Camus

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

21 other quotes 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 other quotes from George MacDonald

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

8 more wisdom & wit from Stephen Leacock

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

14 more quotes from Joseph Conrad

There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

5 other 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 other quotes from Thomas Carlyle

When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

37 views from Edmund Burke

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 other wisdom & wit from Martin Luther King, Jr.

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 sayings from Francis Bacon

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

67 sayings from Francis Bacon

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 quotes from Charles Caleb Colton

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

37 sayings 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 other quotes from Charles Caleb Colton

Men are like the stars some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.

7 thoughts from Jose Marti

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

75 other quotes from Aristotle

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.

36 thoughts from Lord Byron

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

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

40 thoughts from William James

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

37 quotes 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 views from Christopher Columbus

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

75 more quotes from Aristotle

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

24 quotes from Ayn Rand

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

26 quotes 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 sayings 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

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

31 quotes from Thomas Paine

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

24 wisdom & wit from Ayn Rand

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 other thoughts from George Jean Nathan

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

8 views 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 quotes from George Washington

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

73 quotes from Victor Hugo

Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

3 more quotes from W. E. B. Du Bois

It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.

3 wisdom & wit from James Otis

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

23 wisdom & wit from Vincent Van Gogh

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

50 wisdom & wit from Robert Frost

Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

3 quotes from Charlotte Whitton

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.

16 other sayings 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 quotes 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 other quotes from George Berkeley