981 private quotes tagged men

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

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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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“Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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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“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” — George Orwell

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“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.” — Abraham Lincoln

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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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“There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.” — Ernest Hemingway

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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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“Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.” — Muhammad Ali

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“As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.” — Thomas Jefferson

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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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“There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“We have guided missiles and misguided men.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.” — Aristotle

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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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“By indignities men come to dignities.” — Francis Bacon

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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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“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.” — Socrates

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“We cannot learn men from books.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.” — William Butler Yeats

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“Women may fall when there's no strength in men.” — William Shakespeare

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“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.” — John F. Kennedy

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

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