981 private quotes tagged men

“The only really happy folk are married women and single men.” — H. L. Mencken

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

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“Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

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

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

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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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“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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“Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.” — Theodore 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 take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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