981 private quotes tagged men

“There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.” — Blaise Pascal

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“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.” — Blaise Pascal

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

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“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.” — Aldous Huxley

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“Books are not men and yet they stay alive.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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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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“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.” — André Gide

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“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.” — Aristotle

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“Men exist for the sake of one another.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“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.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'” — William Butler Yeats

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“If men were angels, no government would be necessary.” — James Madison

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

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

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“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.” — H. L. Mencken

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“The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“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.” — Thomas Aquinas

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

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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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“Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

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