Category/Topic Name: Men

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

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.

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

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.

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.

Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.

It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

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

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.

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.

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

Women may fall when there's no strength in men.

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.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies.

Bad men are full of repentance.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

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

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land the great ones eat up the little ones.

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.

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

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

But men are men the best sometimes forget.

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

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.

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

Men blaspheme what they do not know.

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

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

No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.

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.

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

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

'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'

The evil that men do lives after them the good is oft interred with their bones.

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.

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

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Strong women only marry weak men.

Men's vows are women's traitors!

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.

For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men.

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.

When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.

My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.

Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.

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.

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

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

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

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.

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.

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.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

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.

The law will never make a man free it is men who have got to make the law free.

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.

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

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

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

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.

Men often act knowingly against their interest.

Most of us women like men, you know it's just that we find them a constant disappointment.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

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

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

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.

One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.

Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.

America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed.

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.

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

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.

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.

They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing meI will be concerned at my own want of ability.

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.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around.

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.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

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

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

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.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

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

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable.

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.

Observe all men, thyself most.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

'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.

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

Forgive, son men are men they needs must err.

You can't keep changing men, so you settle for changing your lipstick.

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.

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.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

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.

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.

Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.

We cannot learn men from books.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?

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.

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

Men should strive to think much and know little.

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

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.

Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

Guys are simple... women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated as they are, only way more mysterious. The whole point is guys are not thinking much. They are just what they appear to be. Tragically.

A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract it is merely a compact between men.

Italian men do appreciate beautiful women. They're not afraid of the beauty, which is nice.

Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

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

We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.

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

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

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.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

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

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.

Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

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

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.

I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.

Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.

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

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.

God is in all men, but all men are not in God that is why we suffer.

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

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

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.

Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity.

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

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.

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

Circumstances rule men men do not rule circumstances.

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

All men of action are dreamers.

Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.

We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.

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.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

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.

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Today is Valentine's Day - or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day!

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

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.

Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.

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

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

Men must know their limitations.

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

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

Men tend to feel threatened women tend to feel guilty.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

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.

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.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

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.

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.

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice!

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

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.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

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

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.

When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.

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.

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

Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.

The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

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.

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

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.

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

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

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

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

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

When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines the kind of men we are.

Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.

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

I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church - things like that - I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life.

Content makes poor men rich discontent makes rich men poor.

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

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.

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.

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

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

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

Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.

Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper.

Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

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.

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.

I mean, honestly, we have to be clear that the life for many Afghan women is not that much different than it was a hundred years ago, 200 years ago. The country has lived with so much violence and conflict that many people, men and women, just want it to be over.

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.

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.

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

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.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

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

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

I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?

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

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.

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.

Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

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.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

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.

Wise men speak because they have something to say Fools because they have to say something.

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.

Personally, I like two types of men - domestic and foreign.

Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals nay it is treachery to comrades.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

I don't think feminism, as I understand the definition, implies the rejection of maternal values, nurturing children, caring about the men in your life. That is just nonsense to me.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

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.

I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.

I am an agnostic I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.

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

It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.

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.

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

Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

Reasonable men adapt to the world around them unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men.

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.

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.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.

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

Men are more prone to cheating, definitely.

Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.

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

CNN found that Hillary Clinton is the most admired woman in America. Women admire her because she's strong and successful. Men admire her because she allows her husband to cheat and get away with it.

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.

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

Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.

Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.

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.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

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.

Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world.

When women go wrong, men go right after them.

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.

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.

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

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.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

Make no little plans they have no magic to stir men's blood.

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

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.

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.

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

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

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.

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

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.

All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

Girls we love for what they are young men for what they promise to be.

It's absolutely stupid that we live without an ozone layer. We have men, we've got rockets, we've got saran wrap - fix it!

It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.

These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.

The less men think, the more they talk.

Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

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.

More men die of jealousy than of cancer.

It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.

A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.

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.

Men should pledge themselves to nothing for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.

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

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

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

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.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

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

I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having multiple children with multiple men and women and not wanting to is prevalent. When you look at the majority of shows on television they placate that kind of behavior.

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.

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.

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

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.

Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.

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.

No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.

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

That common cold of the male psyche, fear of commitment.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

History does nothing it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

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

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.

The latest research has revealed that women have a higher IQ than men.

Men are only as loyal as their options.

Men and women have strengths that complement each other.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.

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.

Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.

I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

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.

Study men, not historians.

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

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

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 he glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

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

All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men.

Men do not fail they give up trying.

I have always supported measures and principles and not men.

Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.

All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

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

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

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

To die for an idea it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.

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

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.

There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life their Christianity, for instance.

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

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

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

I swear by that old expression, 'One monkey don't stop no show!' The reality is, we still have some good men out there, and we should hail those men as the kings they are.

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

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

As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.

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.

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

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

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.

Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.

Men don't care what's on TV. They only care what else is on TV.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

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

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

Men do not have to cook their food they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.

There would be no great men if there were no little ones.

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.

Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.

A government of laws, and not of men.

Men are actually the weaker sex.

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.

As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other.

Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.

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

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.

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.

Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.

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.

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

I have no ambition to govern men it is a painful and thankless office.

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

A man's kiss is his signature.

Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

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

By indignities men come to dignities.

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.

For tis not in mere death that men die most.

Time takes away the grief of men.

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.

Men are not against you they are merely for themselves.

Culture makes all men gentle.

When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.

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.'

What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

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

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

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.

Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

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

The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.

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

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

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

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

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

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

By nature, men love newfangledness.

Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are.

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

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

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.

Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?

Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.

If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?

The new pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world - not his own light, but that of Christ.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

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.

Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

All men are equal before fish.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

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

Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.

All soldiers who serve their country and put their lives at risk need to know that if something happens to them, their families will be well taken care of. That's the bond we have with our military men and women and their families.

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.

I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.

Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.

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

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.

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

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.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

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

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

I have 20,000 girlfriends, all around the world.

We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes.

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing each other now. Young black men would not be impregnating young black women at the rate going on now. We'd not have the drugs we have now, or the alcoholism.

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.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

I think people are born bisexual and the make subconscious choices based on the pressures of society. I have no question in my mind about being bisexual. But I'm also a hypocrite: I would never date a girl who is bisexual, because that means they also sleep with men, and men are so dirty that I'd never sleep with a girl who had slept with a man.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.

I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink.

I shall never be a heretic I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

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

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

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.

There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.

I get along with guys most of my friends are guys. It's easier to trust men sometimes. I only have a few close girlfriends that I trust.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.

Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.

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

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

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

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

There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.

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.

Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love.

A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.

No nice men are good at getting taxis.

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.

Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

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.

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.

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.

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

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

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

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

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

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.

All men and women have an equal need for love. When these needs are not fulfilled it is easy to have our feelings hurt, for which we blame our partner.

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.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

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

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

Bachelors know more about women than married men if they didn't they'd be married too.

The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.

For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It's not about being more powerful than men - it's about having equal rights with protection, support, justice. It's about very basic things. It's not a badge like a fashion item.

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

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

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

Men are different. When they are in love they may also have other girlfriends.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.

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.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

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.

As Americans, we don't see the role of government as guaranteeing outcomes, but allowing free men and women to flourish based on their own vision, their hard work and their personal responsibility.

Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

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

English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

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.

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

Men marry because they are tired women, because they are curious both are disappointed.

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.

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

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

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.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

These are the times that try men's souls.

Because wherever I am today, I still owe it to God and I owe it to two men - the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X and of course, two very special women, my mother and my wife.

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.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children's and grandchildren's fates, are decided.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it's quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid.

I've found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

I'm a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four.

Many men are contemptuous of riches few can give them away.

Power does not corrupt men fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

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.

Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.

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

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

I do not believe in God his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

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.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

Dear Lord we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities strong men make them.

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.

Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life.

He had read much, if one considers his long life but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

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.

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.

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

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

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.

God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

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

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

The production of children, the nurture of those born, and the daily life of men, of these matters woman is visibly the cause.

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

All men are liable to error and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

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

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.

Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.

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

Neutral men are the devil's allies.

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

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.

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

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.

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.

Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions and take that of laborers Unions.

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.

A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.

I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men?

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

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

Men and women of every faith and good people with none at all sincerely strive to do right and lead a purpose-driven life.

Sometimes I've been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions their reasons are always different.

I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.

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.

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

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

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

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

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

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

Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.

Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.

Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.

Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.

No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.

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.

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

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

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.

I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid.

When my mom ran for the Senate, my dad was there for her every step of the way. I can still hear her saying in her beautiful voice, 'Why should women have any less say than men, about the great decisions facing our nation?'

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.

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

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.

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

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.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

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.

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

Women's fashion is a subtle form of bondage. It's men's way of binding them. We put them in these tight, high-heeled shoes, we make them wear these tight clothes and we say they look sexy. But they're actually tied up.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Reputation is what men and women think of us character is what God and angels know of us.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

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.

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

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

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.

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.

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.

Men are what their mothers made them.

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

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.

All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.

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

The most positive men are the most credulous.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

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

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.

It was pride that changed angels into devils it is humility that makes men as angels.

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

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.

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.

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

I have never met anyone who did not support our troops. Sometimes, however, we hear accusations that someone or some group does not support the men and women serving in our Armed Forces. But this is pure demagoguery, and it is intellectually dishonest.

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

It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor as such differences become less, it grows feeble and when they disappear, it will vanish too.

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

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.

There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense.

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.

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.

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'

There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

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.

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.

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?

Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

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.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

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

Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.

There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.

I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.

Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

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.

When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

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.

I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves.

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.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

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.

But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.

Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.

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

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

Live as brave men and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

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.

Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics.

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.

The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.

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.

It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends.

Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which 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. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

When men hear women want a commitment, they think it means commitment to a romantic relationship, but that's not it. It's a commitment to not floating around anymore. I want a guy who is entrenched in his own life. Entrenched is awesome.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.