981 private quotes tagged men

“Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.” — Marcus Aurelius

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

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“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

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“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.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.” — Julius Caesar

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

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

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“Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.” — Aristotle

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

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“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

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

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

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

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

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

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“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

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

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“Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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

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“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

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

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

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

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“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

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