981 private quotes tagged men

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

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

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

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

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

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

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“An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.” — Thomas Fuller

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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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“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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“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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“Men are what their mothers made them.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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