981 private quotes tagged men

“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.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.” — Francis Bacon

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“The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.” — William Shakespeare

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“In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“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.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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

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“Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“The worst men often give the best advice.” — Francis Bacon

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“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.” — Helen Keller

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“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.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“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?” — George Eliot

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“All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.” — H. L. Mencken

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“Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.” — Sun Tzu

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“There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.” — William Shakespeare

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“Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.” — Blaise Pascal

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

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

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“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.” — Aldous Huxley

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“Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.” — George Bernard Shaw

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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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“Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.” — Sigmund Freud

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