981 private quotes tagged men

“There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.” — Plato

0 favs

“If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.” — Leo Tolstoy

0 favs

“Bachelors know more about women than married men if they didn't they'd be married too.” — H. L. Mencken

0 favs

“Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later for another thing, they die earlier.” — H. L. Mencken

0 favs

“Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

0 favs

“If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.” — George S. Patton

0 favs

“A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.” — Walt Whitman

0 favs

“But men are men; the best sometimes forget.” — William Shakespeare

0 favs

“Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.” — Theodore Roosevelt

0 favs

“Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.” — Plato

0 favs

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

0 favs

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

0 favs

“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.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

0 favs

“States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.” — Plato

0 favs

“More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.” — Napoleon Hill

0 favs

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

0 favs

“There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

0 favs

“Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.” — Francis Bacon

0 favs

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

0 favs

“Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.” — Robert Frost

0 favs

“Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.” — Henry David Thoreau

0 favs

“Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.” — Albert Camus

0 favs

“An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.” — Thomas Fuller

0 favs

“Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

0 favs

“Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.” — George S. Patton

0 favs