981 private quotes tagged men

“No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.” — Napoleon Hill

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“Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?” — Victor Hugo

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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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“Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.” — George S. Patton

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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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“Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.” — Karl Marx

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“Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.” — Aldous Huxley

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

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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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“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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“I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.” — George Eliot

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

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“It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.” — Aristotle

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

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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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“Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.” — George Bernard Shaw

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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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“There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.” — Blaise Pascal

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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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“What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.” — Aldous Huxley

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