981 private quotes tagged men

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

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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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“Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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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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“A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.” — Plato

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

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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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“Clever men are good, but they are not the best.” — Thomas Carlyle

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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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“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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“The most positive men are the most credulous.” — Alexander Pope

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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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