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

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“So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.” — Aldous Huxley

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“Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.” — Blaise Pascal

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

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“Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?” — Confucius

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“There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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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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“Men shut their doors against a setting sun.” — William Shakespeare

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“To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.” — Franz Liszt

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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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“Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.” — Channing Pollock

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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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“Honor is simply the morality of superior men.” — H. L. Mencken

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“Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.” — Will Rogers

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“Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.” — Karl Marx

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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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“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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