981 private quotes tagged men

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

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

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

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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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“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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“These are the times that try men's souls.” — Thomas Paine

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“That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.” — Aldous Huxley

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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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“Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

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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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“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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“Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.” — Rodney Dangerfield

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“Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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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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“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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“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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“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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