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 more quotes from George Eliot
Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.
4 quotes from Dorothy Day
All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.
78 other wisdom & wit from Voltaire
All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.
78 more quotes from Voltaire
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
13 sayings 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 other wisdom & wit from Abigail Adams
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
32 views from William Blake
I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.
52 thoughts 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 other wisdom & wit 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 thoughts from James Allen
Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
52 other views from Albert Camus
Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
9 quotes 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 views from Albert Camus
Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.
78 sayings from Voltaire
Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.
52 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 more quotes from Winston Churchill
Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.
14 more sayings from Laurence Sterne
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
78 more 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 more thoughts from Charles de Gaulle
Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
78 other thoughts from Voltaire
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
19 other quotes from Charles de Gaulle
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
52 thoughts from George Eliot
There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
78 more views from Voltaire
Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
78 quotes 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 more sayings 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 more 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
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.
58 wisdom & wit 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 other quotes from Thomas Carlyle
Neutral men are the devil's allies.
5 sayings from Edwin Hubbel Chapin
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
58 more quotes 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 more quotes from Edvard Munch
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
58 sayings from Thomas Carlyle
No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.
5 wisdom & wit from Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
75 wisdom & wit from Benjamin Disraeli
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
14 wisdom & wit from Joseph Conrad
The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
58 other quotes from Thomas Carlyle
There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.
12 thoughts 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 more quotes 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 quotes from Thomas Carlyle
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
8 quotes from Matthew Arnold
We cannot learn men from books.
75 more views from Benjamin Disraeli
When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions their reasons are always different.
46 views from George Santayana
You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
75 quotes from Benjamin Disraeli
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
18 quotes from Margaret Mead
All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
14 other sayings from James Thurber
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
14 thoughts from Joseph Conrad
Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
58 quotes from Thomas Carlyle
Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.
5 other quotes from Max Lerner
Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.
14 thoughts from Heinrich Heine
I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.
10 other 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 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 thoughts 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 more thoughts from Benjamin Disraeli
Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.
8 quotes from Stephen Leacock
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
67 more wisdom & wit from Francis Bacon
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
41 wisdom & wit from Martin Luther King, Jr.
Adversity causes some men to break others to break records.
14 other thoughts from William Arthur Ward
All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.
12 quotes from Thomas a Kempis
All men of action are dreamers.
2 sayings from James Huneker
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
25 more thoughts 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 views from Isaac Asimov
All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.
24 quotes 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 sayings from Thomas Fuller
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
67 more sayings 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 quotes from Francis Bacon
By indignities men come to dignities.
67 quotes from Francis Bacon
By nature, men love newfangledness.
6 more wisdom & wit from Geoffrey Chaucer
Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
67 views from Francis Bacon
Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.
4 sayings from Aldo Leopold
Content makes poor men rich discontent makes rich men poor.
96 sayings 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 sayings 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 quotes from Orison Swett Marden
Great hopes make great men.
45 thoughts 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 more views from Charles Caleb Colton
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
96 more views from Benjamin Franklin
It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.
37 more 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 more 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 more views from Franklin D. Roosevelt
Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
36 quotes from Lord Byron
Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
30 sayings from Charles Caleb Colton
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
12 quotes from Quintilian
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
10 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 other wisdom & wit from Charles Caleb Colton
Nine men in ten are would be suicides.
96 more quotes from Benjamin Franklin
Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
67 thoughts from Francis Bacon
Observe all men, thyself most.
96 more sayings from Benjamin Franklin
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
41 views from Martin Luther King, Jr.
Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
13 thoughts 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 quotes from Franklin D. Roosevelt
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
15 other quotes from Moliere
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
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 wisdom & wit 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 other quotes from Franklin D. Roosevelt
The worst men often give the best advice.
67 quotes 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 thoughts 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 sayings 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 quotes from Douglas MacArthur
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
37 wisdom & wit from Edmund Burke
We have guided missiles and misguided men.
41 more sayings from Martin Luther King, Jr.
We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.
14 quotes from Charles de Montesquieu
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
12 other 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 quotes from Edmund Burke
When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
96 views from Benjamin Franklin
When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
13 quotes from Alexander Hamilton
Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
30 more views from Virginia Woolf
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
67 sayings from Francis Bacon
Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.
45 thoughts from Thomas Fuller
Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
67 quotes from Francis Bacon
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
96 sayings from Benjamin Franklin
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 quotes from George Jean Nathan
Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.
2 more wisdom & wit from Anthony Burgess
A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.
6 more quotes from Lana Turner
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
73 more wisdom & wit 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 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
Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.
12 more views 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 wisdom & wit from Victor Hugo
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
73 wisdom & wit 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 sayings from W. E. B. Du Bois
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
30 other thoughts from George Washington
God is in all men, but all men are not in God that is why we suffer.
10 other views 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 more sayings from Charles Dickens
I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.
73 thoughts 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 quotes from Les Dawson
If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.
24 sayings 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 quotes from James Otis
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
26 more sayings from Charles Dickens
Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.
30 wisdom & wit from George Washington
Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
7 other views 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 sayings from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies.
29 sayings from Arthur Schopenhauer
Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
11 more wisdom & wit from James Joyce
Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.
5 quotes from Richard Whately
Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
73 more views from Victor Hugo
Men do not fail they give up trying.
2 other quotes from Elihu Root
Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.
73 sayings 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 more sayings from Ayn Rand
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
47 views 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 wisdom & wit from Susan B. Anthony
The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.
26 quotes 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 thoughts 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 views from Victor Hugo
The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
45 other quotes from John Ruskin
The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.
30 thoughts from George Washington
The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
24 wisdom & wit 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 sayings from Abraham Lincoln
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
31 other 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 more thoughts 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 other quotes from Thomas Paine
Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.
12 wisdom & wit from Julius Caesar
Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.
5 other views from Knute Rockne
Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.
11 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 sayings 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 thoughts 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 more thoughts from Charlotte Whitton
All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
27 thoughts from James Madison
All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.
17 wisdom & wit 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 quotes from Vincent Van Gogh
As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.
12 views from Julius Caesar
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
For tis not in mere death that men die most.
9 quotes 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 thoughts from Vincent Van Gogh
If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
27 more views 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 sayings 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 quotes from Julius Caesar
Men are not against you they are merely for themselves.
2 thoughts from Gene Fowler
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 more quotes from Giacomo Casanova
But men are men the best sometimes forget.
81 more sayings from William Shakespeare
Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
81 quotes from William Shakespeare
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land the great ones eat up the little ones.
81 wisdom & wit 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 thoughts 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 quotes from David Hume
I am an agnostic I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
14 thoughts from Clarence Darrow
I have no ambition to govern men it is a painful and thankless office.
70 more 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 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 more quotes from William Shakespeare
It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
70 quotes from Thomas Jefferson
It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
4 wisdom & wit from Marguerite Duras
Labor disgraces no man unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
6 other quotes from Ulysses S. Grant
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
81 more thoughts from William Shakespeare
Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.
41 other views from Marcus Aurelius
Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
81 other sayings 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 thoughts 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 quotes from William Shakespeare
Women may fall when there's no strength in men.
81 other views from William Shakespeare
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 other quotes from Marcus Aurelius
Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
5 other wisdom & wit from Charlotte Bronte
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
27 quotes from Leonardo da Vinci
Men often act knowingly against their interest.
16 more 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 other 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 quotes from Anatole France
Strong women only marry weak men.
21 other views from Bette Davis
The evil that men do lives after them the good is oft interred with their bones.
81 wisdom & wit from William Shakespeare
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
27 sayings from Leonardo da Vinci
The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
7 more views from Abraham Maslow
There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
81 more wisdom & wit from William Shakespeare
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
70 quotes from Thomas Jefferson
There would be no great men if there were no little ones.
12 thoughts from George Herbert
Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.
25 quotes from Charles Baudelaire
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
70 other views 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 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 quotes from Niccolo Machiavelli
Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.
26 other wisdom & wit from Sigmund Freud
Men are what their mothers made them.
135 quotes 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 wisdom & wit from E. W. Howe
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
135 more quotes 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 quotes from Niccolo Machiavelli
Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.
23 quotes from Niccolo Machiavelli
Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
23 other views 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 sayings from Karl Marx
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
22 thoughts from Soren Kierkegaard
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
135 thoughts 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 views from Walt Whitman
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
135 other sayings from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
23 other wisdom & wit 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 more thoughts 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 more views from Niccolo Machiavelli
The most positive men are the most credulous.
43 other sayings from Alexander Pope
The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
135 wisdom & wit from Ralph Waldo Emerson
The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
135 more thoughts from Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 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 quotes 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 more sayings from E. W. Howe
Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
135 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
135 quotes 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
A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
30 quotes 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 more wisdom & wit 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 other sayings from Gilbert K. Chesterton
Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.
26 thoughts from Sigmund Freud
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
46 quotes from John F. Kennedy
Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
135 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 views from Gilbert K. Chesterton
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
3 more sayings from Clifton Paul Fadiman
Good men must not obey the laws too well.
135 other sayings from Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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 wisdom & wit 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 other thoughts 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 other sayings from Honore de Balzac
In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
135 views 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 sayings 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 views 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 other 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
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
45 other quotes from Bertrand Russell
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
26 quotes from Sigmund Freud
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 sayings from Ho Chi Minh
Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.
52 thoughts from Gilbert K. Chesterton
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
53 more quotes from Marilyn Monroe
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
53 wisdom & wit from Marilyn Monroe
Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.
53 other thoughts 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 other views from George Orwell
Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
57 quotes from Blaise Pascal
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
57 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 quotes from Marilyn Monroe
Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.
17 quotes 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 quotes from Elbert Hubbard
Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.
17 other 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 other wisdom & wit from George Orwell
Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
47 more sayings from George Orwell
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
58 other quotes 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 other thoughts from Marilyn Monroe
The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
57 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 more quotes from Charles Spurgeon
The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
59 more thoughts from Elbert Hubbard
The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
57 wisdom & wit 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 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 wisdom & wit 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 quotes from Marquis de Sade
To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
2 wisdom & wit from Robert Schumann
Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.
57 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 other 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 other quotes from George Orwell
When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.
58 quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.
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 thoughts 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 other thoughts from Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
17 quotes 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 quotes 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 more quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
57 quotes from Blaise Pascal
Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'
53 views from Marilyn Monroe
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
58 sayings 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 other thoughts 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 wisdom & wit from Charles Kingsley
I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'
28 quotes 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 wisdom & wit from Marilyn Monroe
I've found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.
53 views from Marilyn Monroe
If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
57 wisdom & wit from Blaise Pascal
If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!
53 more sayings 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 more quotes from Thomas Hardy
Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.
9 sayings from Charles Spurgeon
Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.
53 more sayings from Marilyn Monroe
Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
47 quotes from George Orwell
Men are only as great as they are kind.
59 wisdom & wit from Elbert Hubbard
Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
57 quotes from Blaise Pascal
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 more wisdom & wit 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 views from Henry David Thoreau
All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.
6 other quotes from Hilaire Belloc
All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.
5 wisdom & wit 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 sayings from John Quincy Adams
Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
15 other sayings from Jean de La Fontaine
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
115 more quotes 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 other thoughts from George Bernard Shaw
Dreaming men are haunted men.
2 other quotes 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 sayings 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 more views 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 more quotes 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 views from Henry David Thoreau
It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.
17 thoughts from Calvin Coolidge
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
18 more thoughts from Marcel Proust
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
115 other quotes from George Bernard Shaw
Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
115 views from George Bernard Shaw
Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
19 wisdom & wit from E. B. White
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau
Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
117 more thoughts from Henry David Thoreau
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
14 views from Robert A. Heinlein
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 wisdom & wit from Henry David Thoreau
Men have become the tools of their tools.
117 more quotes 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 sayings from Edward Young
Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.
115 more quotes from George Bernard Shaw
Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
115 thoughts 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 more views from George Bernard Shaw
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.
2 other quotes from Thurgood Marshall
Power does not corrupt men fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw
So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
45 views from Aldous Huxley
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
117 views 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 other quotes 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 more thoughts from Aldous Huxley
The law will never make a man free it is men who have got to make the law free.
117 sayings from Henry David Thoreau
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
117 more quotes from Henry David Thoreau
There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
19 quotes from Alexis de Tocqueville
Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
32 quotes 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 other thoughts from George Bernard Shaw
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
117 wisdom & wit from Henry David Thoreau
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
115 views 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 quotes 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 wisdom & wit from Aldous Huxley
Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
50 sayings from Napoleon Bonaparte
Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.
7 more wisdom & wit from Marcus Garvey
Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
22 other views from Samuel Richardson
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
20 more sayings from Herbert Hoover
Personally, I like two types of men - domestic and foreign.
31 more quotes from Mae West
Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
31 wisdom & wit 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 views from Maria Montessori
There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
50 sayings from Napoleon Bonaparte
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 wisdom & wit from Napoleon Bonaparte
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
13 thoughts from Herman Melville
When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
50 quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
31 sayings from Mae West
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
14 thoughts from Ogden Nash
A man's kiss is his signature.
31 other thoughts from Mae West
All men are equal before fish.
20 quotes 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 other thoughts from John Locke
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
15 more thoughts from Walter Scott
All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
26 thoughts from Jean de la Bruyere
All religions have been made by men.
50 quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
3 quotes from Francois Fenelon
As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!
16 other thoughts 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 quotes 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 thoughts from Davy Crockett
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
15 other quotes from John Locke
I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men?
31 quotes from Mae West
I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.
31 other sayings 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 other sayings from Jean de la Bruyere
It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
31 quotes from Mae West
Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.
7 quotes from Marcus Garvey
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
50 thoughts from Napoleon Bonaparte
Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
50 other sayings from Napoleon Bonaparte
A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.
90 other quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
4 other quotes from Roald Dahl
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
60 more thoughts from H. L. Mencken
Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
63 other sayings from Samuel Johnson
Bachelors know more about women than married men if they didn't they'd be married too.
60 sayings from H. L. Mencken
Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
27 sayings 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 more quotes 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 other views from Leo Tolstoy
Honor is simply the morality of superior men.
60 sayings 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 quotes 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 sayings from Samuel Adams
It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
90 sayings 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 more quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.
6 quotes from Emil Zatopek
Make no little plans they have no magic to stir men's blood.
2 more 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
Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.
14 more 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 more quotes from H. L. Mencken
Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.
90 other wisdom & wit from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.
6 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 more sayings from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.
90 more quotes 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 wisdom & wit from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
90 wisdom & wit from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
60 other wisdom & wit from H. L. Mencken
There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
90 quotes 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 other quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.
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 sayings from H. L. Mencken
We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes.
90 other quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
60 thoughts from H. L. Mencken
Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
8 thoughts from Walter Lippmann
Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
60 other thoughts from H. L. Mencken
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
60 thoughts 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
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
100 views 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 wisdom & wit from Napoleon Hill
Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.
103 other thoughts from Friedrich Nietzsche
Men marry because they are tired women, because they are curious both are disappointed.
100 other wisdom & wit from Oscar Wilde
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
15 more views from William Penn
Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?
7 wisdom & wit from Jean Giraudoux
More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
28 more sayings from Napoleon Hill
Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
15 other wisdom & wit 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 quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche
Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.
36 wisdom & wit 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 sayings from Le Corbusier
Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.
103 quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche
The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice!
33 views 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 more thoughts from Napoleon Hill
Time takes away the grief of men.
15 wisdom & wit from Desiderius Erasmus
Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
100 quotes 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 wisdom & wit from Ezra Pound
'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?
103 quotes 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 other quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche
A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.
3 other quotes from Mario Puzo
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
100 quotes from Oscar Wilde
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
36 quotes 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 more thoughts 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 sayings from Mahatma Gandhi
It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.
103 more thoughts from Friedrich Nietzsche
Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
100 wisdom & wit 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 more quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
100 more sayings from Oscar Wilde