Men Quotes

‘The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.’ – Leonardo da Vinci

‘Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.’ – Marcus Aurelius

‘A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.’ – Lana Turner

‘It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.’ – Diogenes

‘The less men think, the more they talk.’ – Montesquieu

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

‘Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.’ – Chuck Norris

‘Honor is simply the morality of superior men.’ – H. L. Mencken

”Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.’ – Ella Wheeler Wilcox

‘When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.’ – Honore de Balzac

‘Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.’ – E. B. White

‘A woman simply is, but a man must become.’ – Camille Paglia

‘Culture makes all men gentle.’ – Menander

‘Neutral men are the devil’s allies.’ – Edwin Hubbel Chapin

‘If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.’ – Francis of Assisi

‘Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.’ – Mahatma Gandhi

‘The true index of a man’s character is the health of his wife.’ – Cyril Connolly

‘Men aren’t necessities. They’re luxuries.’ – Cher

‘Men must know their limitations.’ – Clint Eastwood

‘I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.’ – Clarence Darrow

‘Pride, envy, avarice – these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.’ – Dante Alighieri

‘Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.’ – Daniel Webster

‘Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.’ – Charles Baudelaire

‘Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.’ – Kin Hubbard

‘Men don’t care what’s on TV. They only care what else is on TV.’ – Jerry Seinfeld

‘Men do not fail; they give up trying.’ – Elihu Root

‘Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.’ – Iris Murdoch

‘It’s at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.’ – Emil Zatopek

‘Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.’ – Max Lerner

‘The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.’ – Henry David Thoreau

‘Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.’ – Democritus

‘Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.’ – Laurence Sterne

‘Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.’ – Edmund Waller

‘Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?’ – Confucius

‘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.’ – Bette Davis

‘Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.’ – William Ellery Channing

‘Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.’ – Anthony Burgess

‘No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.’ – Keith Miller

‘By nature, men love newfangledness.’ – Geoffrey Chaucer

‘Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.’ – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

‘Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.’ – Lawrence Durrell

‘For tis not in mere death that men die most.’ – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

‘A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.’ – Phyllis Diller

‘If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.’ – Rita Mae Brown

‘Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.’ – Oscar Wilde

‘Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.’ – F. Scott Fitzgerald

‘Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.’ – Richard Whately

‘Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.’ – Napoleon Bonaparte

‘Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.’ – Gene Fowler

‘Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men’s judgments of one another.’ – Desiderius Erasmus

‘Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.’ – Howard Thurman

‘Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.’ – Chief Joseph

‘When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.’ – George Santayana

‘Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.’ – Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

‘Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.’ – Heinrich Heine

‘He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.’ – Charles Kingsley

‘Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.’ – Dorothy L. Sayers

‘Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.’ – Walter Lippmann

‘All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.’ – Hilaire Belloc

‘I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.’ – Coco Chanel

‘My mom said the only reason men are alive is for lawn care and vehicle maintenance.’ – Tim Allen

‘Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.’ – George William Norris

‘Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.’ – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

‘First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.’ – Amos Bronson Alcott

‘One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.’ – Georg C. Lichtenberg

‘When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.’ – Benjamin Haydon

‘We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.’ – Montesquieu

‘Men are born to succeed, not to fail.’ – Henry David Thoreau

‘Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.’ – Charlie Chaplin

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

‘I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.’ – Margaret Thatcher

‘Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.’ – Charles de Gaulle

‘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.’ – Charles Caleb Colton

‘The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.’ – Franklin D. Roosevelt

‘Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.’ – Charles Spurgeon

‘The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.’ – Confucius

‘Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.’ – Gilbert K. Chesterton

‘Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.’ – Knute Rockne

‘There are only two forces that unite men – fear and interest.’ – Napoleon Bonaparte

‘Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.’ – Herodotus

‘Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.’ – Leonardo da Vinci

‘Men should strive to think much and know little.’ – Democritus

‘Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.’ – Kin Hubbard

‘The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.’ – Charles Dickens

‘All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.’ – Chief Joseph

‘I only have ‘yes’ men around me. Who needs ‘no’ men?’ – Mae West

‘Men often act knowingly against their interest.’ – David Hume

‘When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.’ – Ezra Pound

‘There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.’ – Epicurus

‘Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.’ – George Orwell

‘All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.’ – Walter Scott

‘Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.’ – Niccolo Machiavelli

‘Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.’ – D. H. Lawrence

‘I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won’t presume to probe into the faults of others.’ – Mahatma Gandhi

‘Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.’ – Francis Bacon

‘Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.’ – E. W. Howe

‘Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.’ – Edward Young

‘Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.’ – Charles de Gaulle

‘A lot of times, women don’t get the male perspective in regards to a relationship, what men go through when they’re not really dealing well.’ – Morris Chestnut

‘No nice men are good at getting taxis.’ – Katharine Whitehorn

‘As I said, men value their independence in a weird way, above practically everything.’ – George Weinberg

‘Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.’ – Marcus Tullius Cicero

‘Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.’ – Martin H. Fischer

‘I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.’ – Mae West

‘Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.’ – George Orwell

‘For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.’ – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

‘I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.’ – Shirley Bassey

‘Men won’t read any email from a woman that’s over 200 words long.’ – Douglas Coupland

‘When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.’ – Friedrich Nietzsche

‘Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.’ – Quintilian

‘Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.’ – Camille Paglia

‘Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.’ – Oscar Wilde

‘What do women do when they get together? We sit around and talk! Men, not so much. My theory is that this difference is genetic and dates back to the hunter-gatherer societies, when the men had to be quiet as they hunted, lest they scare away the bison and then everyone starved to death and it was all their fault.’ – Jenna McCarthy

‘For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.’ – Clifton Fadiman

‘Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.’ – Montesquieu

‘There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.’ – E. W. Howe

‘Men tend to feel threatened; women tend to feel guilty.’ – Edwin Louis Cole

‘By indignities men come to dignities.’ – Francis Bacon

‘One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.’ – George Bernard Shaw

‘Men are different. When they are in love they may also have other girlfriends.’ – Zhang Ziyi

‘Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.’ – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

‘Men are actually the weaker sex.’ – George Weinberg

‘Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.’ – Charles Caleb Colton

‘Italian men do appreciate beautiful women. They’re not afraid of the beauty, which is nice.’ – Eva Herzigova

‘Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.’ – Christopher Dawson

‘The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it.’ – Murray Kempton

‘The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.’ – Edmund Burke

‘There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.’ – Ernest Hemingway

‘It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.’ – Frederick Douglass

‘Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.’ – Gary Lineker

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

‘The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.’ – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

‘There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.’ – William Shakespeare

‘Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.’ – Calvin Coolidge

‘Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.’ – Timothy Leary

‘I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.’ – Charles V

‘It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.’ – Saint Augustine

‘It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.’ – George S. Patton

‘People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.’ – George Orwell

‘Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.’ – George Bernard Shaw

‘All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.’ – T. E. Lawrence

‘All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.’ – Sun Tzu

‘Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.’ – Oscar Wilde

‘No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.’ – Thomas Carlyle

‘Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.’ – Garrison Keillor

‘Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.’ – Henry David Thoreau

‘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.’ – Samuel Adams

‘Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.’ – Unknown

‘Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.’ – Benjamin Franklin

‘Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.’ – Charles Spurgeon

‘Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.’ – Blaise Pascal

‘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.’ – Immanuel Kant

‘Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.’ – Amelia Earhart

‘Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.’ – Herbert Hoover

‘Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.’ – Bertrand Russell

‘One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.’ – Elbert Hubbard

‘There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.’ – Will Rogers

‘Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.’ – Buddha

‘Men are what their mothers made them.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.’ – Confucius

‘Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.’ – Martin Luther King, Jr.

‘Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.’ – Francis Bacon

‘It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.’ – Aeschylus

‘I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men; they are far superior and always have been.’ – William Golding

‘Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.’ – Fyodor Dostoevsky

‘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.’ – Ho Chi Minh

‘As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.’ – Andrew Carnegie

‘For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.’ – Simon Wiesenthal

‘All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.’ – Socrates

‘A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.’ – John Stuart Mill

‘Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.’ – Harry Day

‘I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.’ – Fidel Castro

‘It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.’ – Niccolo Machiavelli

‘We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.’ – Abraham Lincoln

‘Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.’ – William Penn

‘Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.’ – Ronald Reagan

‘To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts – such is the duty of the artist.’ – Robert Schumann

‘Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.’ – Martin Heidegger

‘Numbers don’t lie. Women lie, men lie, but numbers don’t lie.’ – Max Holloway

‘Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.’ – Marcus Tullius Cicero

‘I don’t believe a champion is the biggest, baddest, meanest dude in the world. I think the champion is like a warrior; it’s like the head knight or lead samurai: humble men of integrity, respect, and honor that treat people kindly.’ – Jon Jones

‘The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.’ – B. F. Skinner

‘Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.’ – Arthur Schopenhauer

‘Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.’ – Helen Keller

‘Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.’ – Susan B. Anthony

‘In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.’ – Harry S Truman

‘The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.’ – George Edward Moore

‘As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.’ – Pythagoras

‘Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.’ – Thomas Paine

‘Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.’ – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

‘Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.’ – John Maynard Keynes

‘Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.’ – Herodotus

‘Men are like wine – some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.’ – Pope John XXIII

‘The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.’ – Ayn Rand

‘Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.’ – Charles Dickens

‘There are no extraordinary men… just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.’ – William Halsey

‘If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands, or were able to draw with their feet and produce the works which men do, horses would draw the forms of gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make the gods’ bodies the same shape as their own.’ – Xenophanes

‘With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.’ – William Lloyd Garrison

‘Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.’ – Robert A. Heinlein

‘Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.’ – Franklin D. Roosevelt

‘We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men… We are who we are because they were who they were. It’s wise to know where you come from, who called your name.’ – Maya Angelou

‘Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.’ – Nelson Mandela

‘Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.’ – Thomas Jefferson

‘Let’s be very clear: Strong men – men who are truly role models – don’t need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful. People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.’ – Michelle Obama

‘Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.’ – Aristotle

‘There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.’ – Walter Reuther

‘Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.’ – Victor Hugo

‘Wealthy men can’t live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.’ – Ayrton Senna

‘All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.’ – Brian Tracy

‘It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.’ – Robert Louis Stevenson

‘Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.’ – William Arthur Ward

‘Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.’ – Charlotte Whitton

‘If men were angels, no government would be necessary.’ – James Madison

‘The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.’ – Jean Piaget

‘Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.’ – George Washington

‘Death is not the worst that can happen to men.’ – Plato

‘I don’t know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me.’ – Duke of Wellington

‘The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.’ – Gloria Steinem

‘The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.’ – Norman Mailer

‘Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.’ – Mary Wollstonecraft

‘Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.’ – Napoleon Bonaparte

‘The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, as intelligent Mr. Toad.’ – Kenneth Grahame

‘The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.’ – Joseph Conrad

‘Girls are capable of doing everything men are capable of doing. Sometimes they have more imagination than men.’ – Katherine Johnson

‘There’s a personality trait known as agreeableness. Agreeable people are compassionate and polite. And agreeable people get paid less than disagreeable people for the same job. Women are more agreeable than men.’ – Jordan Peterson

‘Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.’ – Jane Addams

‘If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.’ – Epicurus

‘Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.’ – E. W. Howe

‘The greatest want of the world is the want of men – men who will not be bought or sold; men who in their inmost souls are true and honest; men who do not fear to call sin by its right name; men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole; men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.’ – Ellen G. White

‘Men are the dreams of a shadow.’ – Pindar

‘Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.’ – Thomas Huxley

‘The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.’ – Charlie Chaplin

‘The truth is that men are tired of liberty.’ – Benito Mussolini

‘That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.’ – Aldous Huxley

‘Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.’ – Alphonse de Lamartine

‘A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.’ – Saul Bellow

‘God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.’ – Ramakrishna

‘A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.’ – Mario Puzo

‘Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.’ – Billy Crystal

‘Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.’ – Le Corbusier

‘When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.’ – Alexander Hamilton

‘Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?’ – Robert Browning

‘Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.’ – Epictetus

‘There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.’ – Margaret Thatcher

‘To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior’s spirit. It takes power to do that.’ – Carlos Castaneda

‘If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.’ – Cardinal Richelieu

‘A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.’ – Roald Dahl

‘Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.’ – George Savile

‘All the women want to be with me, all the men want to be like me.’ – Ric Flair

‘Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.’ – Ruth Bader Ginsburg

‘The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.’ – Sydney J. Harris

‘The straight line belongs to men, the curved one to God.’ – Antoni Gaudi

‘I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.’ – Mary Shelley

‘I am not bisexual. I am not gay. I have never had sex with men.’ – Matt LeBlanc

‘Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.’ – Robert E. Howard

‘I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls, the right to breathe and the right to vote, the freedom to choose their friends, enjoy the sunshine, and ride on the railroads, uncursed by color; thinking, dreaming, working as they will in a kingdom of beauty and love.’ – W. E. B. Du Bois

‘I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.’ – Nikola Tesla

‘The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.’ – John Adams

‘The Industrial Revolution has two phases: one material, the other social; one concerning the making of things, the other concerning the making of men.’ – Charles A. Beard

‘There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.’ – John F. Kennedy

‘We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.’ – Elizabeth Cady Stanton

‘Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.’ – Charles Mackay

‘Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.’ – Katharine Hepburn

‘History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.’ – Karl Marx

‘Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.’ – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

‘Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.’ – Ulysses S. Grant

‘Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.’ – Simone de Beauvoir

‘As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.’ – Adam Smith

‘Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.’ – Orison Swett Marden

‘The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer… form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.’ – Andrew Jackson

‘Give to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.’ – Jesus Christ

‘Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.’ – Horace Mann

‘How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.’ – Soren Kierkegaard

‘Evil prospers when good men do nothing.’ – John Philpot Curran

‘The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.’ – John Locke

‘Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.’ – Miyamoto Musashi

‘I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.” – William Butler Yeats

‘All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.’ – Francois Fenelon

‘It doesn’t take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.’ – Norman Schwarzkopf

‘That little man in black there, he says women can’t have as much rights as men ’cause Christ wasn’t a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.’ – Sojourner Truth

‘Everyone is allowed to be vulnerable. I think women and men and dogs and cats and ants and aliens can all express themselves and be vulnerable.’ – Melanie Martinez

‘Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.’ – Malcolm de Chazal

‘The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.’ – Abraham Maslow

‘The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes – or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert’s dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two – is gone.’ – Omar Khayyam

‘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.’ – George MacDonald

‘Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.’ – Martha Graham

‘I love to wear lingerie. The problem is that men always rip it off too quickly. When women are dolled up in lingerie they feel sexy. So let us wear it for five minutes.’ – Karen McDougal

‘Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.’ – Chester W. Nimitz

‘The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.’ – Charles de Gaulle

‘People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.’ – Muhammad Iqbal

‘The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can’t wake up.’ – D. H. Lawrence

‘All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.’ – Voltaire

‘Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.’ – Marshall McLuhan

‘It’s not the men in my life that count, it’s the life in my men.’ – Mae West

‘We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.’ – Haile Selassie

‘It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.’ – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

‘Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.’ – Jean de La Fontaine

‘When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team’s dugout and they were already in street clothes.’ – Bob Uecker

‘More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.’ – Napoleon Hill

‘Nothing is possible without men, but nothing lasts without institutions.’ – Jean Monnet

‘To be a man is to suffer for others. God help us to be men!’ – Cesar Chavez

‘No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.’ – John Calvin

‘People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.’ – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

‘The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.’ – James Cash Penney

‘Women are to maintain submission to men in all churches in all times.’ – John MacArthur

‘All men can and will change. But there’s only one woman we’re going to change for.’ – Steve Harvey

‘All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.’ – James Thurber

‘Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.’ – Kwame Nkrumah

‘If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.’ – O. Henry

‘Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.’ – Albert Camus

‘Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.’ – Oliver Goldsmith

‘Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.’ – Aldo Leopold

‘I’m fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.’ – George McGovern

‘Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.’ – Coco Chanel

‘Whether it is a tsunami, or whether it is a hurricane, whether it’s an earthquake – when we see these great fatal and natural acts, men and women of every ethnic persuasion come together and they just want to help.’ – Martin Luther King III

‘Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?’ – Virginia Woolf

‘In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.’ – Hypatia

‘I don’t like the clean-shaven boy with the necktie and the good job. I like desperate men, men with broken teeth and broken minds and broken ways. They interest me. They are full of surprises and explosions.’ – Charles Bukowski

‘The more I see of men the more I like dogs.’ – Madame de Stael

‘Men may die, but the fabrics of free institutions remains unshaken.’ – Chester A. Arthur

‘Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.’ – Lord Byron

‘Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.’ – Beilby Porteus

‘Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.’ – Jimmy Carter

‘Men want a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue. That is what is written in their hearts. That is what little boys play at. That is what men’s movies are about. You just see it. It is undeniable.’ – John Eldredge

‘Men are liars. We’ll lie about lying if we have to. I’m an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.’ – Tim Allen

‘The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.’ – Herbert Spencer

‘Force always attracts men of low morality.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don’t do that.’ – Ray Bradbury

‘During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.’ – Thomas Hobbes

‘Each year, Labor Day gives us an opportunity to recognize the invaluable contributions that working men and women make to our nation, our economy and our collective prosperity. It gives us a chance to show gratitude for workers’ grit, dedication, ingenuity and strength, which define our nation’s character.’ – Tom Perez

‘Why do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to.’ – Henny Youngman

‘Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.’ – George Chapman

‘Some men are just very good at cheating and lying.’ – Coleen Nolan

‘As men get older, the toys get more expensive.’ – Marvin Davis

‘Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It’s no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It’s a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.’ – Ty Cobb

‘Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.’ – Friedrich Nietzsche

‘It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.’ – Thomas Hardy

‘Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.’ – Harold S. Geneen

‘For Jesus, there are no countries to be conquered, no ideologies to be imposed, no people to be dominated. There are only children, women and men to be loved.’ – Henri Nouwen

‘I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren’t. And it’s just not – there is no equality there.’ – Connie Chung

‘The more I see of men, the more I like dogs.’ – Clara Bow

‘All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.’ – Thomas J. Watson

‘Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love.’ – John Muir

‘There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.’ – Sophocles

‘What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.’ – Susan Sontag

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

‘Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way – and the fools know it.’ – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

‘If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man’s intelligence and his comprehension… would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.’ – Dwight D. Eisenhower

‘The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.’ – Erich Fromm

‘The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other – instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.’ – Edward Abbey

‘If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.’ – Bayard Rustin

‘Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.’ – William James

‘Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become.’ – Brooke Foss Westcott

‘There is no justice among men.’ – Nicholas II of Russia

‘The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.’ – Moliere

‘Women are hypocrites. Women are opportunists. Women are liars. They are abusers and bullies and manipulators. They are capable of cruelty, callousness, and evil. Just like men.’ – Bari Weiss

‘I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I’ll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I’m gonna tell ya, that’s one helluva man, and God bless him.’ – Muhammad Ali

‘The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.’ – Friedrich August von Hayek

‘Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.’ – Lyndon B. Johnson

‘I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.’ – Madeleine Albright

‘There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.’ – Clare Boothe Luce

‘Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.’ – Pericles

‘My men have sometimes failed to take a position, but to defend one, never!’ – Stonewall Jackson

‘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.’ – David Hume

‘Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.’ – Dick Van Dyke

‘Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.’ – B. R. Ambedkar

‘From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.’ – Algernon Charles Swinburne

‘Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.’ – Dion Boucicault

‘Sometimes a lot of us men think we are doing everything for the woman we love, but there is an aspect of a woman a man doesn’t understand.’ – Shah Rukh Khan

‘For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.’ – George Santayana

‘The enemies cannot destroy the king who has at his service the respect and friendship of the wise men who can find fault, disagree, and correct him.’ – Thiruvalluvar

‘If it’s natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how? – Joan Baez’ – Joan Baez

‘I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.’ – Alexis de Tocqueville

‘Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.’ – Leo Tolstoy

‘These people are very unskilled in arms… with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.’ – Christopher Columbus

‘As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.’ – Christopher Dawson

‘Life is too large to hang out a sign: ‘For Men Only.” – Barbara Jordan

‘Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.’ – Robert Kennedy

‘The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.’ – James Baldwin

‘Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.’ – Jean Rostand

‘You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.’ – Benjamin Disraeli

‘More men die of jealousy than of cancer.’ – Joseph P. Kennedy

‘Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.’ – John Steinbeck

‘Death can never kill an idea. Ideas are more powerful than death. Ideas outlive men and can never be destroyed.’ – Myles Munroe

‘The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives – the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.’ – Norman Cousins

‘Gay men don’t have much in common with lesbians.’ – Douglas Murray

‘I suppose I’ve always done my share of crying, especially when there’s no other way to contain my feelings. I know that men ain’t supposed to cry, but I think that’s wrong. Crying’s always been a way for me to get things out which are buried deep, deep down. When I sing, I often cry. Crying is feeling, and feeling is being human. Oh yes, I cry.’ – Ray Charles

‘Real men laugh at opposition; real men smile when enemies appear.’ – Marcus Garvey

‘When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.’ – Mike Tyson

‘In nuclear war all men are cremated equal.’ – Dexter Gordon

‘Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.’ – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

‘Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.’ – William E. Gladstone

‘All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.’ – William Shakespeare

‘The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you’re making a mistake but let you go on with it, that’s when it ruins your mind state as an artist.’ – Kendrick Lamar

‘Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.’ – Thomas Fuller

‘I’m a fighting man, a fighting man with generations of fighting men before me in my family. That’s all we do: we fight.’ – Tyson Fury

‘Look! Don’t be deceived by appearances – men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock are in the sea!’ – William Booth

‘The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.’ – James Buchanan

‘Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.’ – Johnny Carson

‘When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.’ – Plato

‘I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage. Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.’ – C. V. Raman

‘Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.’ – Robert Frost

‘Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.’ – Pope Francis

‘Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.’ – Mencius

‘I knew Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were really talented. As actors, they were both studly young men, and they had great writers’ chops.’ – Robin Williams

‘I think there are good men and women in all decades. We’ve grown cynical. And look at what we do to all our heroes: Churchill, FDR, Kennedy, they all had affairs. But heroic things happen every day.’ – Kevin Costner

‘The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.’ – Louis D. Brandeis

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

‘The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.’ – J. R. R. Tolkien

‘I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.’ – Charles M. Schwab

‘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.’ – Edvard Munch

‘All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.’ – Paulo Coelho

‘It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.’ – John D. Rockefeller

‘Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.’ – Walter Scott

‘Men are only as loyal as their options.’ – Bill Maher

‘Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it’s quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid.’ – Rita Rudner

‘I’m not denyin’ the women are foolish. God Almighty made ’em to match the men.’ – George Eliot

‘Few men are born brave. Many become so through training and force of discipline.’ – Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

‘Hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made.’ – Lu Xun

‘And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro’ nature, moulding men.’ – Alfred Lord Tennyson

‘Wise men argue causes; fools decide them.’ – Anacharsis

‘I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.’ – Henry Fielding

‘Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.’ – Sigmund Freud

‘America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.’ – Alexander Graham Bell

‘Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.’ – Percy Bysshe Shelley

”Punk rock’ is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts, the souls, the time and the minds of young men who give everything they have to it.’ – Iggy Pop

‘Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent.’ – Horace Smith

‘Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn’t women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?’ – Anne Frank

‘O, you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you, and I would have ended my life – it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me.’ – Ludwig van Beethoven

‘I wish I’d known that apologizing is a sign of strength. I had the impression that if you apologize, it’s a sign of weakness. I kind of picked up the message from my father, ‘Real men don’t apologize. You just do your best, and if you happen to hurt some people, that’s their fault. You just go on. Don’t apologize. That’s a sign of weakness.” – Gary Chapman

‘It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.’ – Julius Caesar

‘None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.’ – John Milton

‘The most positive men are the most credulous.’ – Alexander Pope

‘It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.’ – William Blake

‘Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.’ – Tiger Woods

‘A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.’ – Patrick Kavanagh

‘I have always supported measures and principles and not men.’ – Davy Crockett

‘When men don’t fear God, they give themselves to evil.’ – Ray Comfort

‘Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.’ – Richard M. Nixon

‘We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.’ – Michel de Montaigne

‘It is the knowledge that all men have weaknesses and that many have vices that makes government necessary.’ – James Monroe

‘Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.’ – Henry Clay

‘When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.’ – Pope John Paul II

‘Soldiers, I had lately like to have been taken from you by the attempt of a few desperate men, but by the grace and providence of the gods, I am still preserved.’ – Alexander the Great

‘I do not want medical men to discuss whether or not my work is valuable, because I know what it will do. I want them to tell me how best this new knowledge of rapidly restoring paralysed people to health and strength can be applied where it is needed.’ – Elizabeth Kenny

‘I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.’ – Brigitte Bardot

‘When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled.’ – J. William Fulbright

‘Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.’ – Golda Meir

‘Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.’ – Winston Churchill

‘No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.’ – Muhammad Ali Jinnah

‘We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.’ – Chanakya

‘Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.’ – George Bernard Shaw

‘But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and such ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be, whenever and wherever the hour strikes and calls to noble action.’ – Joshua Chamberlain

‘Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.’ – Theodore Roosevelt

‘To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.’ – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

‘Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.’ – Jane Austen

‘I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let’s face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what’s sexy. And men define what’s feminine. It’s ridiculous.’ – Beyonce Knowles

‘Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men’s minds.’ – Thurgood Marshall

‘In ‘Hamilton,’ we’re telling the stories of old, dead white men, but we’re using actors of color, and that makes the story more immediate and more accessible to a contemporary audience.’ – Lin-Manuel Miranda

‘We know that men are saved by repentance and faith, and whoever does call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. But salvation is a supernatural work of God that will always produce fruit. And the evidence, not the cause, but the evidence of salvation is a changed life, a changing life.’ – Paul Washer

‘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.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘Men make love more intensely at 20, but make love better, however, at 30.’ – Catherine the Great

‘What religion a man holds, to what race he belongs, these things are not important; the really important thing is this knowledge: the knowledge of God’s plan for men. For God has a plan, and that plan is evolution.’ – Jiddu Krishnamurti

‘Girls are socialised in ways that are harmful to their sense of self – to reduce themselves, to cater to the egos of men, to think of their bodies as repositories of shame. As adult women, many struggle to overcome, to unlearn, much of that social conditioning.’ – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

‘If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.’ – Alphonse Karr

‘A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship – and you know what, a father does, too. It’s time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a ‘Mad Men’ episode.’ – Barack Obama

‘I don’t feel ashamed to be loud, which is an argument I’ve had with lots of men, who thought I was too sassy and unladylike.’ – SZA

‘I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.’ – Jean-Paul Sartre

‘At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.’ – Alcuin

‘Men and women have roles – their roles are different, but their rights are equal.’ – Harri Holkeri

‘Women feel empowered when they can do the things that are supposed to be only for men, you know? It breaks boundaries, it’s liberating, and it’s empowering when you feel like, ‘Well, I can do that, too.” – Rihanna

‘The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.’ – James Joyce

‘It would be a much better country if women did not vote. That is simply a fact. In fact, in every presidential election since 1950 – except Goldwater in ’64 – the Republican would have won, if only the men had voted.’ – Ann Coulter

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

‘Cats are the runes of beauty, invincibility, wonder, pride, freedom, coldness, self-sufficiency, and dainty individuality – the qualities of sensitive, enlightened, mentally developed, pagan, cynical, poetic, philosophic, dispassionate, reserved, independent, Nietzschean, unbroken, civilised, master-class men.’ – H. P. Lovecraft

‘There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.’ – Johann Kaspar Lavater

‘I’ve only slept with men I’ve been married to. How many women can make that claim?’ – Elizabeth Taylor

‘And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.’ – John Dalberg-Acton

‘No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.’ – Otto Weininger

‘I’ve also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.’ – Yousuf Karsh

‘I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.’ – Mikhail Bakunin

‘If you want to get the most out of your men, give them a break! Don’t make them work completely in the dark. If you do, they won’t do a bit more than they have to. But if they comprehend, they’ll work like mad.’ – Chesty Puller

‘Throughout human history, in any great endeavour requiring the common effort of many nations and men and women everywhere, we have learned – it is only through seriousness of purpose and persistence that we ultimately carry the day. We might liken it to riding a bicycle. You stay upright and move forward so long as you keep up the momentum.’ – Ban Ki-moon

‘War is big business. It’s a lot of money going to and fro, and unfortunately a lot of angst, and a lot of fear, and a lot of doubt. And eventually a lot of wonderful people, like soldiers, like men and women that are out there trying to do the best they can, they come back being wounded on many levels.’ – Jon Anderson

‘I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men’s lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.’ – J. Robert Oppenheimer

‘The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement – particularly men, I don’t know why, maybe it’s the testosterone – I think it’s narcissism. Even more than hubris. And for women, too. Narcissism is the killer.’ – James Woods

‘I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.’ – Marcus Porcius Cato

‘Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one’s soul, when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.’ – Josephine Baker

‘Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?’ – James Longstreet

‘Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?’ – Ernest Gaines

‘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.’ – David Livingstone

‘We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have – for their usefulness.’ – Thomas Merton

‘Men take much more notice of older women in France, so I might move there. I think I’m a good bet.’ – Deborah Moggach

‘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.’ – Nathaniel Hawthorne

‘If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men? – Vincent Van Gogh’ – Vincent Van Gogh

‘It takes two men to make one brother.’ – Israel Zangwill

‘The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.’ – Hunter S. Thompson

‘Cricket is not gender biased. It isn’t that men’s cricket is different and women’s a different one.’ – Mithali Raj

‘There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.’ – Billy Graham

‘Risk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.’ – Warren Buffett

‘All these boundaries – Africa, Asia, Malaysia, America – are set by men. But you don’t have to look at boundaries when you are looking at a man – at the character of a man. The question is: What do you stand for? Are you a follower, or are you a leader?’ – Hakeem Olajuwon

‘Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.’ – Natalie Portman

‘The difference between men is in energy, in the strong will, in the settled purpose and in the invincible determination.’ – Vince Lombardi

‘Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn’t always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.’ – Kurt Vonnegut

‘The six of us gathered at my house, and we walked to the polls. I’ll never forget it. Not a Negro was on the streets, and when we got to the courthouse, the clerk said he wanted to talk with us. When we got into his office, some 15 or 20 armed white men surged in behind us – men I had grown up with, had played with.’ – Medgar Evers

‘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.” – Les Dawson

‘And the blood of brave men was shed like unto the shedding of rain from a black cloud.’ – Ferdowsi

‘The intelligent ruler makes the law select men and makes no arbitrary appointment himself; he makes the law measure merits and makes no arbitrary judgment himself.’ – Han Fei

‘Don’t get caught up in the ‘look’ thing. Sometimes, we as men and women, the first thing that attracts us to someone is their physical appearance, and that’s not always a good thing because what’s good on the outside is not always good on the inside.’ – Keith Sweat

‘The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men’s apples and head their cabbages.’ – Cyrano de Bergerac

‘Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.’ – Margaret Fuller

‘Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.’ – Sallust

‘Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.’ – Zig Ziglar

‘Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.’ – Wilbur Wright

‘I do not like assassins, or men of low character.’ – Gene Hackman

‘Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.’ – J. K. Rowling

‘Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.’ – Thales

‘The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.’ – Charlotte Perkins Gilman

‘If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?’ – Mary Astell

‘Passion is what gets you through the hardest times that might otherwise make strong men weak, or make you give up.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘Women should not be forced to accept sexual harassment as the price of admission to a life and career in the political world. They should not have to endure unwanted touching, innuendo, and propositioning from men in positions of power.’ – J. B. Pritzker

‘When men attempt bold gestures, generally it’s considered romantic. When women do it, it’s often considered desperate or psycho.’ – Sarah Jessica Parker

‘Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to.’ – Donald Justice

‘All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.’ – W. C. Fields

‘We desire the good of the world and the happiness of the nations that the bonds of affection and unity between the sons of men should be strengthened… what harm is there in this?… these fruitless strifes, these ruinous wars shall pass away, and the ‘Most Great Peace’ shall come.’ – Baha’u’llah

‘Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must – at that moment – become the center of the universe.’ – Elie Wiesel

‘The truth is, I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let men sometimes fool themselves.’ – Marilyn Monroe

‘We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men.’ – George Ripley

‘Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries because they’ve always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up. I mean, who made up all the rules in the culture? Men – white male corporate society. So why wouldn’t a woman want to rebel against that?’ – Kim Gordon

‘Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.’ – Louis L’Amour

‘When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?’ – Sitting Bull

‘My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men.’ – Sandra Cisneros

‘The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.’ – Tom Wolfe

‘All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.’ – Red Skelton

‘You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they’re simply unbearable.’ – Marguerite Duras

‘The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.’ – Karen Horney

‘I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.’ – Jonathan Swift

‘Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled, either by a power within them, or by a power without them; either by the word of God, or by the strong arm of man; either by the Bible, or by the bayonet.’ – Robert Charles Winthrop

‘Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.’ – Rene Descartes

‘When I look up and see the sun shining on the patch of white clouds up in the blue, I begin to think how it would feel to be up somewhere above it winging swiftly thought the clear air, watching the earth below, and the men on it, no bigger than ants.’ – Eddie Rickenbacker

‘The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.’ – Dalai Lama

‘Equality for men and women, across the world, not only in sports, is the goal. We obviously have a long way to go, but every little bit helps.’ – Venus Williams

‘There is no evil in the atom; only in men’s souls.’ – Adlai Stevenson II

‘Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.’ – C. S. Lewis

‘I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.’ – William Morris

‘The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.’ – Lucan

‘Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free… Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.’ – A. Philip Randolph

‘Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.’ – Neil Armstrong

‘The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.’ – Channing Pollock

‘I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my daughter’s generation, where their salaries will be similar to men’s. But we’re still starting off, like, where the NBA was back in the 1950s.’ – Candace Parker

‘Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.’ – George Jean Nathan

‘A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.’ – Francis Bacon

‘The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him.’ – Owen D. Young

‘The colonel replied that he didn’t care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.’ – Jackie Robinson

‘I don’t like people who take drugs… customs men for example.’ – Mick Miller

‘The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.’ – Woodrow Wilson

‘There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.’ – J. Paul Getty

‘I like men with quick wit, good conversation and a great sense of humour. I love banter. I want a man to like me for me – I want him to be authentic.’ – Emma Watson

‘I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.’ – Charles Evans Hughes

‘All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.’ – Blaise Pascal

‘Yoga is a method for restraining the natural turbulence of thoughts, which otherwise impartially prevent all men, of all lands, from glimpsing their true nature of Spirit. Yoga cannot know a barrier of East and West any more than does the healing and equitable light of the sun.’ – Paramahansa Yogananda

‘Women are better than men.’ – Ryan Gosling

‘Thank God that at least in one place, all men are equal: in the church of God. I do not consider it any degradation to kneel side by side with a Negro in the house of our Heavenly Father.’ – Roger B. Taney

‘Naturally, my stories are about women – I’m a woman. I don’t know what the term is for men who write mostly about men. I’m not always sure what is meant by ‘feminist.’ In the beginning, I used to say, ‘Well, of course I’m a feminist.’ But if it means that I follow a kind of feminist theory, or know anything about it, then I’m not.’ – Alice Munro

‘Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.’ – Frederic Bastiat

‘Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too.’ – H. L. Mencken

‘No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women… When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.’ – bell hooks

‘But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.’ – Lydia M. Child

‘Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name.’ – Andrea Dworkin

‘Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.’ – Samuel Gompers

‘If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology.’ – David Hilbert

‘There are brilliant out lesbians and gay men and bisexuals and transgendered people and heterosexuals keeping the fire of change alive. Not a day goes by when I don’t feel grateful to them for their work.’ – Jasmine Guy

‘Yes, the pyramids have been built, but if you give me 300,000 disciplined men and give me 30 years, I could build a bigger one.’ – Werner Herzog

‘Neither man nor woman is perfect or complete without the other. Thus, no marriage or family, no ward or stake is likely to reach its full potential until husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, men and women work together in unity of purpose, respecting and relying upon each other’s strengths.’ – Sheri L. Dew

‘Our religion is the traditions of our ancestors – the dreams of our old men, given them in solemn hours of the night by the Great Spirit; and the visions of our sachems, and is written in the hearts of our people.’ – Chief Seattle

‘Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.’ – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

‘The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.’ – Richard Adams

‘People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person’s habitual misery.’ – Graham Greene

‘Because women still earn just 77 cents for every dollar men make. Those pennies add up to real money.’ – Lilly Ledbetter

‘The practice of charity will bind us – will bind all men in one great brotherhood.’ – Conrad Hilton

‘Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.’ – Havelock Ellis

‘Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.’ – Joseph Addison

‘As we celebrate Labor Day, we honor the men and women who fought tirelessly for workers’ rights, which are so critical to our strong and successful labor force.’ – Elizabeth Esty

‘There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work in her slippers, but in modern society, I think an independent woman is even more sexy.’ – Kat Graham

‘The time has come for all good men to rise above principle.’ – Huey Long

‘Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever.’ – Jose Marti

‘It’s absurd to think that desire for attention doesn’t drive both women and men. Why are women scrutinized for it more, then?’ – Emily Ratajkowski

‘I’ve always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territory. Give me land, give me land.’ – Eartha Kitt

‘Some men do think I’m a psycho bunny-boiler.’ – Amy Winehouse

‘A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.’ – Sydney Smith

‘The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.’ – Hannah Arendt

‘The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.’ – Baruch Spinoza

‘The 5th Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. one of the great landmarks in men’s struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized.’ – William O. Douglas

‘Solitary confinement is too terrible a punishment to inflict on any human being, no matter what his crime. Hardened criminals in the men’s prisons, it is said, often beg for the lash instead.’ – Emmeline Pankhurst

‘Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.’ – Antoinette Brown Blackwell

‘Men fall in love with their eyes – they like what they see – and women fall in love with their ears – they like what they hear!’ – Zsa Zsa Gabor

‘All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.’ – Noah Webster

‘The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.’ – Felix Adler

‘Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.’ – A. C. Benson

‘We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.’ – Plato

‘The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.’ – Charles Spurgeon

‘Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.’ – Jean Paul

‘The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.’ – Queen Elizabeth II

‘Why should men be constrained by antiquated stereotypes of masculinity? What does it even mean to ‘Be a Real Man’ anymore? Shouldn’t we all be celebrating a wide range of definitions of manhood? – Andy Dunn’ – Andy Dunn

‘The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.’ – Avicenna

‘All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.’ – John Quincy Adams

‘Elegance is always in style for men. There are all different kinds of elegance. It can be silk, it can be a T-shirt.’ – Donatella Versace

‘I dress for women and I undress for men.’ – Angie Dickinson

‘Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.’ – Albert Pike

‘There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved.’ – Thomas Aquinas

‘Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.’ – Dorothy Day

‘Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.’ – Augustus

‘A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter of schools. Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.’ – W. E. B. Du Bois

‘A few honest men are better than numbers.’ – Oliver Cromwell

‘Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women’s denigration of themselves.’ – Betty Friedan

‘Well, the tyranny of masculinity and the tyranny of patriarchy I think has been much more deadly to men than it has to women. It hasn’t killed our hearts. It’s killed men’s hearts. It’s silenced them; it’s cut them off.’ – Eve Ensler

‘With all of you men out there who think that having a thousand different ladies is pretty cool, I have learned in my life I’ve found out that having one woman a thousand different times is much more satisfying.’ – Wilt Chamberlain

‘All literary men are Red Sox fans – to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.’ – John Cheever

‘The truth is that those who join gangs – more often than not they are young men in their later teens – often do come from the most difficult family backgrounds, from an environment where they feel neglected and unwanted. Gang membership can bring a perverse sense of belonging which they may not have ever got at home.’ – Chris Grayling

‘Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.’ – Emil Cioran

‘To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.’ – Angela Davis

‘I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.’ – Gilbert K. Chesterton

‘Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He be glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal.’ – Ali ibn Abi Talib

‘A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.’ – Charles Erwin Wilson

‘Nature has made men free and equal. The distinctions necessary for social order are only founded on general utility.’ – Marquis de Lafayette

‘I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.’ – Marlene Dietrich

‘There’s a lot of good police officers. There’s thousands of perfect traffic stops. Lot of good men. Lot of good women. But those don’t get the stories.’ – Dabo Swinney

‘Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.’ – Jackie Mason

‘Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.’ – Ida B. Wells

‘We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.’ – George Orwell

‘Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.’ – Margaret Mead

‘My weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order.’ – Dolly Parton

‘Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.’ – Thomas Szasz

‘Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.’ – Richard Wright

‘When men stop believing in God, it isn’t that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.’ – Umberto Eco

‘It’s true that, in Iran, women have half of the rights men do. And yet 66 per cent of students are women.’ – Marjane Satrapi

‘The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.’ – Billy Sunday

‘The battle between two men over a girl is the same as the fight for two men over a piece of land. It is all about desire. There is no difference between a love triangle and the conflict between Israel and Palestine.’ – Bruno Dumont

‘The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.’ – Andy Rooney

‘As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.’ – Marcel Proust

‘Being a law enforcement officer is one of the toughest jobs that there is, but it’s also foundational to a functioning society. We rely on these brave men and women to protect and serve our country every day.’ – Tommy Tuberville

‘Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men.’ – Gifford Pinchot

‘Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.’ – Zhuangzi

‘Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.’ – Gary Oldman

‘All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, or religious principles, are likewise due to non-existence, because they originate in ignorance, which is absence of wisdom.’ – Maimonides

‘Gaming in general is a male thing. It isn’t that gaming is designed to exclude women. Everybody who’s tried to design a game to interest a large female audience has failed. And I think that has to do with the different thinking processes of men and women.’ – Gary Gygax

‘I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.’ – Brendan Behan

‘Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.’ – Charles Simmons

‘Men lie, women lie, numbers don’t.’ – Lil B

‘It is in the midst of disasters that bold men grow bolder.’ – Henry IV

‘Produce great men, the rest follows.’ – Walt Whitman

‘Whenever I had been racially vilified before it had been by peers or drunk men. It’s more shocking when it’s a 13-year-old child. No 13-year-old is racist.’ – Adam Goodes

‘Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.’ – Aristotle

‘I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.’ – Henry Ford

‘It has happened to me to meet many of the men of my day whom the world agreed to call great.’ – Rebecca Harding Davis

‘A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.’ – Jesse Jackson

‘A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.’ – Albert Schweitzer

‘I want to congratulate all the men out there who are working diligently to be good fathers whether they are stepfathers, or biological fathers or just spiritual fathers.’ – T. D. Jakes

‘Our present will become the past of other men and women. We depend on them to remember it with the complexity with which it was suffered. As others, once, depended on us.’ – Eavan Boland

‘It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.’ – Charles Dickens

‘The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.’ – Thomas Sowell

‘Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.’ – Karel Capek

‘They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.’ – Thomas More

‘War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.’ – Salvatore Quasimodo

‘In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.’ – Alexander Hamilton

‘When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It’s a whole different way of thinking.’ – Elayne Boosler

‘China is not to be won for Christ by quiet, ease-loving men and women… The stamp of men and women we need is such as will put Jesus, China, souls first and foremost in everything and at every time – even life itself must be secondary.’ – Hudson Taylor

‘As the culture war is about irreconcilable beliefs about God and man, right and wrong, good and evil, and is at root a religious war, it will be with us so long as men are free to act on their beliefs.’ – Pat Buchanan

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

‘The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man’s right to his body, or woman’s right to her soul.’ – Emma Goldman

‘In the earliest years of the AIDS crisis, there were many gay men who were unable to come out about the fact that their lovers were ill, A, and then dead, B. They were unable to get access to the hospital to see their lover, unable to call their parents and say, ‘I have just lost the love of my life.” – Judith Butler

‘It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.’ – Henry Adams

‘Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.’ – Rodney Dangerfield

‘The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man’s dedication to world peace… a representation of man’s belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.’ – Minoru Yamasaki

‘I’m supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I’ve flunked more often than not. I’m very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don’t understand them.’ – Frank Sinatra

‘Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.’ – Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

‘I personally don’t think ginger men have a habit of being attractive. We have to make ourselves seem attractive by doing stuff.’ – Ed Sheeran

‘Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.’ – Quintilian

‘Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.’ – Franz Liszt

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

‘Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.’ – Gamaliel Bailey

‘Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.’ – Charlotte Bronte

‘When I was young, they used to call me ‘foreman,’ not because I was in charge, but because I did the work of four men.’ – Chael Sonnen

‘The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.’ – William Shakespeare

‘Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.’ – Henry David Thoreau

‘Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.’ – Abraham Lincoln

‘Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least, for their minds are occupied with their ideas and the perfection of their conceptions, to which they afterwards give form.’ – Leonardo da Vinci

‘I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world – a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.’ – Buddha

‘Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.’ – Julius Caesar

‘Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.’ – Herodotus

‘Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I’m tired.’ – Mae West

‘There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.’ – Voltaire

‘Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.’ – George Bernard Shaw

‘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.’ – George S. Patton

‘All men are equal before fish.’ – Herbert Hoover

‘Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.’ – Marcus Aurelius

‘Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels – men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.’ – Dwight D. Eisenhower

‘Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.’ – Martin Luther King, Jr.

‘Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.’ – Ayn Rand

”Evil men have no songs.’ How is it that the Russians have songs?’ – Friedrich Nietzsche

‘Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.’ – Thomas Paine

‘Men’s ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.’ – Karl Marx

‘There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.’ – Plato

‘Victory usually goes to the army who has better trained officers and men.’ – Sun Tzu

‘The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution – nor by the courts – nor by the officers of the law – nor by the lawyers – but by the men and women who constitute our society – who are the protectors of the law as they are themselves protected by the law.’ – Robert Kennedy

‘If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.’ – Confucius

‘The graveyards are full of indispensable men.’ – Charles de Gaulle

‘The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.’ – Bertrand Russell

‘False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.’ – Montesquieu

‘The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.’ – James Madison

‘Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.’ – Napoleon Hill

‘Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.’ – Mary Wollstonecraft

‘I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.’ – John Locke

‘The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.’ – Francis Bacon

‘All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.’ – H. L. Mencken

‘Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.’ – Saint Augustine

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

‘There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.’ – Ernest Hemingway

‘There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.’ – Alexis de Tocqueville

‘It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people – women as well as men.’ – Susan B. Anthony

‘Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.’ – George Washington

‘Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.’ – Fidel Castro

‘As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can.’ – Julius Caesar

‘Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.’ – Pericles

‘Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.’ – William Shakespeare

‘Men have become the tools of their tools.’ – Henry David Thoreau

‘There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.’ – Blaise Pascal

‘A ruler of men faces two possible misfortunes: if he employs the worthy, the ministers will use worthiness as a pretext to rob their ruler of his power, but if he promotes men recklessly, his affairs will be neglected, and he will not prevail.’ – Han Fei

‘Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.’ – Plato

‘Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.’ – Aristotle

‘Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.’ – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

‘All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.’ – Herodotus

‘Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationship of women and the creations of science. Although women have not taken full advantage of its use and benefits, air travel is as available to them as to men.’ – Amelia Earhart

‘A government of laws, and not of men.’ – John Adams

‘Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.’ – George Orwell

‘Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.’ – Alexander Hamilton

‘We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.’ – Thomas Jefferson

‘Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these, they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve.’ – Francis of Assisi

‘I believe in God, who made of one blood all nations that on earth do dwell. I believe that all men, black and brown and white, are brothers, varying through time and opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing in no essential particular, and alike in soul and the possibility of infinite development.’ – W. E. B. Du Bois

‘Women are the real reason we get up every day. I’m talking about real men. If there were no women, I would not even have to bathe, because why would I care? These are guys I’m hanging with. I wake up for a woman every day of my life to make it happen for her.’ – Steve Harvey

‘Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.’ – Camille Paglia

‘When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.’ – Diogenes

‘Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.’ – Soren Kierkegaard

‘The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.’ – Andrew Carnegie

‘There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see, the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before.’ – Sojourner Truth

‘The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.’ – Lyndon B. Johnson

‘Weak men make everybody vulnerable to danger.’ – John MacArthur

‘No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.’ – Thomas Carlyle

‘Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.’ – Abraham Lincoln

‘You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.’ – Ho Chi Minh

‘I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.’ – William Butler Yeats

‘Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.’ – Lord Byron

‘It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.’ – Epicurus

‘We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.’ – George Bernard Shaw

‘Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.’ – Oscar Wilde

‘In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.’ – Benjamin Franklin

‘Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.’ – Sigmund Freud

‘Young men, trust God, and make the future bright with blessing. Old men, trust God, and magnify him for all the mercies of the past.’ – Charles Spurgeon

‘Great hopes make great men.’ – Thomas Fuller

‘One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.’ – Walter Scott

‘The natural desire of good men is knowledge.’ – Leonardo da Vinci

‘With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.’ – Buddha

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

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

‘The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.’ – John F. Kennedy

‘If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.’ – Leo Tolstoy

‘Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.’ – Jordan Peterson

‘Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.’ – Friedrich Nietzsche

‘Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.’ – Confucius

‘The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?’ – D. H. Lawrence

‘The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.’ – Charles Dickens

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

‘All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.’ – Plato

‘The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.’ – Victor Hugo

‘Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.’ – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

‘The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.’ – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

‘Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.’ – William Shakespeare

‘Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.’ – Francis Bacon

‘Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.’ – Voltaire

‘We must continue to prove to the world that we can provide a rising standard of living for all men without loss of civil rights or human dignity to any man.’ – Robert Kennedy

‘Men willingly believe what they wish.’ – Julius Caesar

‘What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.’ – H. L. Mencken

‘Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.’ – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

‘Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.’ – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

‘Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.’ – Socrates

‘When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.’ – Edmund Burke

‘Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.’ – Herodotus

‘Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.’ – George Bernard Shaw

‘Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.’ – Arthur Schopenhauer

‘The Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men. The problem of education, then, among Negroes must first of all deal with the Talented Tenth; it is the problem of developing the Best of this race that they may guide the Mass away from the contamination and death of the Worst, in their own and other races.’ – W. E. B. Du Bois

‘To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men.’ – Ella Wheeler Wilcox

‘When women go wrong, men go right after them.’ – Mae West

‘Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.’ – Ronald Reagan

‘Do not borrow the productions of other men’s brains and pens and recite them as a lesson; but make the most of the talents, the brain power, that God has given you.’ – Ellen G. White

‘Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.’ – Harry S Truman

‘Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.’ – George S. Patton

‘Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.’ – Joseph Conrad

‘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.’ – Abraham Lincoln

‘A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.’ – Plato

‘Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.’ – Martin Luther King, Jr.

‘No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.’ – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

‘As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.’ – Pythagoras

‘I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.’ – Marcus Aurelius

‘It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.’ – Helen Keller

‘Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.’ – Karl Marx

‘We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.’ – George Orwell

‘If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.’ – Katharine Hepburn

‘Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.’ – Brian Tracy

‘The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.’ – Ayn Rand

‘Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.’ – Bertrand Russell

‘The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers.’ – Herbert Hoover

‘If we know that our own men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the enemy is not open to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory.’ – Sun Tzu

‘Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; – that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.’ – Mary Wollstonecraft

‘Before success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do.’ – Napoleon Hill

‘Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.’ – Virginia Woolf

‘If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.’ – Ulysses S. Grant

‘Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.’ – Benjamin Disraeli

‘These are the times that try men’s souls.’ – Thomas Paine

‘Men want to make women happy.’ – Jerry Seinfeld

‘It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.’ – James Madison

‘Where wealth accumulates, men decay.’ – Oliver Goldsmith

‘Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable.’ – Cher

‘The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.’ – Alexander Graham Bell

‘The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.’ – John Locke

‘Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.’ – Fyodor Dostoevsky

‘When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.’ – Frederick Douglass

‘Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.’ – James Thurber

‘Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.’ – Alexander Hamilton

‘Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.’ – James Joyce

‘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.’ – William Shakespeare

‘The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.’ – Blaise Pascal

‘Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage – they’ve experienced pain and bought jewelry.’ – Rita Rudner

‘Battles are won in the hearts of men.’ – Vince Lombardi

‘The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.’ – Nathaniel Hawthorne

‘The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.’ – George Eliot

‘Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.’ – Bill Maher

‘All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.’ – Orison Swett Marden

‘A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.’ – Pericles

‘If a ruler of men wants to put an end to vice, he must examine the correspondence between form and name and look to see how what is said differs from what is done.’ – Han Fei

‘It was the wont of the immortal gods sometimes to grant prosperity and long impunity to men whose crimes they were minded to punish in order that a complete reverse of fortune might make them suffer more bitterly.’ – Julius Caesar

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

‘Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.’ – James Baldwin

‘I know how men in exile feed on dreams.’ – Aeschylus

‘Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself, ‘What makes me come alive?’ Because what the world – a wife, a child – needs is men who have come alive.’ – John Eldredge

‘Women’s liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It’s men who are discriminated against. They can’t bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.’ – Golda Meir

‘It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.’ – William Ellery Channing

‘Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.’ – Duke of Wellington

‘Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.’ – Oscar Wilde

‘My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.’ – George Santayana

‘Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.’ – Edward Abbey

‘You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.’ – Catherine the Great

‘The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God’s universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.’ – John Muir

‘Some men say that they should be satisfied with the abolition of untouchability only, leaving the caste system alone. The aim of abolition of untouchability alone without trying to abolish the inequalities inherent in the caste system is a rather low aim.’ – B. R. Ambedkar

‘Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.’ – Honore de Balzac

‘Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman’s attention.’ – Camille Paglia

‘It is not women’s liberation, it is women’s and men’s liberation.’ – Ruth Bader Ginsburg

‘The state of female artists is very good. But the very definition of art has been biased in that ‘art’ was what men did in a European tradition and ‘crafts’ were what women and natives did. But it’s actually all the same.’ – Gloria Steinem

‘A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.’ – Winston Churchill

‘Great things are done when men and mountains meet.’ – William Blake

‘I find older men more attractive than boys. I need a man who can teach me a thing or two.’ – Donatella Versace

‘What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.’ – Alexis de Tocqueville

‘Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it.’ – Andrea Dworkin

‘Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.’ – Thomas Hobbes

‘Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.’ – Friedrich Nietzsche

‘The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.’ – John Stuart Mill

‘Black men don’t like to be called ‘boys,’ but women accept being called ‘girls.” – Marilyn Monroe

‘We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?’ – Elizabeth Cady Stanton

‘Men weren’t really the enemy – they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.’ – Betty Friedan

‘We lived many lives in those whirling campaigns, never sparing ourselves; yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to re-make in the likeness of the former world they knew.’ – T. E. Lawrence

‘Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.’ – Henry David Thoreau

‘Let men decide firmly what they will not do, and they will be free to do vigorously what they ought to do.’ – Mencius

‘Men create the gods in their own image.’ – Xenophanes

‘Men are beasts and even beasts don’t behave as they do.’ – Brigitte Bardot

‘More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.’ – Billy Sunday

‘Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.’ – Pope John Paul II

‘We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.’ – Haile Selassie

‘It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.’ – Jean-Paul Sartre

‘If it is right for men to fight for their freedom, and God knows what the human race would be like today if men had not, since time began, fought for their freedom, then it is right for women to fight for their freedom and the freedom of the children they bear.’ – Emmeline Pankhurst

‘Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.’ – Pindar

‘Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.’ – Marcus Garvey

‘Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.’ – Sydney J. Harris

‘Men, today we die a little.’ – Emil Zatopek

‘Good men must not obey the laws too well.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘At first, I was called a quack, a charlatan, and worse, year after year, in Australia, England and the United States, by men who simply refused to believe that a nurse from ‘the bush’ could devise a treatment which succeeded where they had failed.’ – Elizabeth Kenny

‘Old men are children for the second time.’ – Menander

‘Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.’ – Plato

‘I went to Concord, a young woman from the backwoods, firm in belief that Emerson was the first of living men. He was the modern Moses who had talked with God apart and could interpret Him to us.’ – Rebecca Harding Davis

‘The Creator, in taking infinite pains to shroud with mystery His presence in every atom of creation, could have had but one motive – a sensitive desire that men seek Him only through free will.’ – Paramahansa Yogananda

‘The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.’ – William Penn

‘Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.’ – George Bernard Shaw

‘A woman of the world is anxious to exhibit her form and shape, whether walking, standing, sitting, or sleeping. Even when represented as a picture, she desires to captivate with the charms of her beauty and, thus, to rob men of their steadfast heart.’ – Buddha

‘It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.’ – Niccolo Machiavelli

‘Persuasion is achieved by the speaker’s personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.’ – Aristotle

‘Wise men make more opportunities than they find.’ – Francis Bacon

‘It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.’ – H. L. Mencken

‘Reconstruction was a vast labor movement of ignorant, muddled, and bewildered white men who had been disinherited of land and labor and fought a long battle with sheer subsistence, hanging on the edge of poverty, eating clay and chasing slaves and now lurching up to manhood.’ – W. E. B. Du Bois

‘Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.’ – Abraham Lincoln

‘What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.’ – Saint Augustine

‘Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.’ – Dwight D. Eisenhower

‘Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.’ – Montesquieu

‘Hand in hand with freedom of speech goes the power to be heard, to share in the decisions of government which shape men’s lives.’ – Robert Kennedy

‘The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.’ – George Washington

‘Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.’ – Voltaire

‘Men freely believe that which they desire.’ – Julius Caesar

‘The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them – neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.’ – Fidel Castro

‘Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.’ – Amelia Earhart

‘The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.’ – Plato

‘Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.’ – William Shakespeare

‘The ‘morality of compromise’ sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don’t compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.’ – Andrew Carnegie

‘I know and do what is right better than many big men who read.’ – Sojourner Truth

‘Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force – that thoughts rule the world.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.’ – Lyndon B. Johnson

‘The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.’ – Thomas Carlyle

‘Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.’ – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

‘Our calling as gospel ministers is to preach the truth, confront sin, and call all men to repentance and obedience to the gospel – the good news that achieves soul conversion and saves sinners from eternal wrath.’ – John MacArthur

‘Most men are within a finger’s breadth of being mad.’ – Diogenes

‘A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.’ – Thomas Jefferson

‘All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.’ – Henry David Thoreau

‘Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we’ve always had: work, or prison.’ – Tim Allen

‘As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.’ – Blaise Pascal

‘The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.’ – Leo Tolstoy

‘Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.’ – Alexander Hamilton

‘Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.’ – Lord Byron

‘There were some great clinicians in the 20th century – great men. Freud was a genius; Jung was a genius, Carl Rogers was a genius – there’s a half-dozen psychologists of the 1950s and humanists of the 1960s.’ – Jordan Peterson

‘Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.’ – George Bernard Shaw

‘The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men – from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.’ – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

‘The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.’ – William Butler Yeats

‘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.’ – Soren Kierkegaard

‘Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.’ – Benjamin Franklin

‘Purposes, plans, and achievements of men may all disappear like yon cloud upon the mountain’s summit; but, like the mountain itself, the things which are of God shall stand fast for ever and ever.’ – Charles Spurgeon

‘Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.’ – Thomas Fuller

‘I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.’ – Oscar Wilde

‘I will not be concerned at other men’s not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.’ – Confucius

‘I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.’ – Susan B. Anthony

‘Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.’ – Sigmund Freud

‘A writer of fiction is really… a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.’ – Ernest Hemingway

‘Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.’ – Francis of Assisi

‘I never say ‘nagging.’ I think that ‘nagging’ is a term that men created to get women to pipe down some. But, it’s a trap that we’ve created. We created several terms for women to back you down. Nagging means to stop asking me questions, then we get away with more. I think it’s a term men created.’ – Steve Harvey

‘There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.’ – John Adams

‘Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.’ – Ho Chi Minh

‘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!’ – John F. Kennedy’ – John F. Kennedy

‘It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.’ – Friedrich Nietzsche

‘Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.’ – Victor Hugo

‘I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.’ – Coco Chanel

‘Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody’s slavery.’ – W. E. B. Du Bois

‘Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.’ – Aristotle

‘To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!’ – H. L. Mencken

‘The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.’ – Plato

‘I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.’ – Abraham Lincoln

‘If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.’ – George S. Patton

‘In soft regions are born soft men.’ – Herodotus

‘A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.’ – Martin Luther King, Jr.

‘If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.’ – Ayn Rand

‘It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving – as if it were an individual person – its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.’ – Karl Marx

‘Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.’ – Herbert Hoover

‘Men exist for the sake of one another.’ – Marcus Aurelius

‘When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.’ – Thomas Paine

‘Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.’ – Sun Tzu

‘Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.’ – Bertrand Russell

‘If you rely on political factions to promote men to office, the people will work to develop instrumental relationships and will not seek to be useful with regard to the law. Thus, a ruler who mistakes reputation for ability when assigning offices will see his state fall into disorder.’ – Han Fei

‘Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.’ – Julius Caesar

‘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.’ – Napoleon Hill

‘In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.’ – James Madison

‘Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.’ – Mary Wollstonecraft

‘There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.’ – John Locke

‘The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.’ – Alexis de Tocqueville

‘But men are men; the best sometimes forget.’ – William Shakespeare

‘Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.’ – Pericles

‘Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.’ – George Santayana

‘In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.’ – Henry David Thoreau

‘I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.’ – Buddha

‘There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.’ – Napoleon Bonaparte

‘Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.’ – George Bernard Shaw

‘A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.’ – Niccolo Machiavelli

‘We know that we cannot live together without rules which tell us what is right and what is wrong, what is permitted and what is prohibited. We know that it is law which enables men to live together, that creates order out of chaos. We know that law is the glue that holds civilization together.’ – Robert Kennedy

‘The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!’ – Dwight D. Eisenhower

‘I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don’t trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.’ – Charles Dickens

‘Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.’ – Leonardo da Vinci

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

‘Justice means minding one’s own business and not meddling with other men’s concerns.’ – Plato

‘If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.’ – Blaise Pascal

‘There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.’ – Alexander Hamilton

‘A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.’ – Charles Spurgeon

‘To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.’ – Confucius

‘The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line: the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea.’ – W. E. B. Du Bois

‘Bad men are full of repentance.’ – Aristotle

‘I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?’ – Abraham Lincoln

‘The only really happy folk are married women and single men.’ – H. L. Mencken

‘Men trust their ears less than their eyes.’ – Herodotus

‘During a few days’ halt near Vesontio for the provision of corn and other supplies, a panic arose from inquiries made by our troops and remarks uttered by Gauls and traders, who affirmed that the Germans were men of a mighty frame and an incredible valour and skill at arms.’ – Julius Caesar

‘The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.’ – Henry David Thoreau

‘Men’s vows are women’s traitors!’ – William Shakespeare

‘Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.’ – Niccolo Machiavelli

‘Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.’ – Plato