981 private quotes tagged men

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

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“How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.” — Thomas Aquinas

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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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“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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“As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.” — Maya Angelou

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“If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.” — William Shakespeare

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“How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?” — Lao Tzu

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“The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.” — Victor Hugo

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

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“Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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“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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“Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Men's vows are women's traitors!” — William Shakespeare

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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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“The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“Good men must not obey the laws too well.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.” — Leonardo da Vinci

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“What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.” — C. S. Lewis

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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 admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.” — H. L. Mencken

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“The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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