981 private quotes tagged men

“If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.” — Herman Melville

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“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.” — George Orwell

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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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“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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“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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“To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.” — Thomas Carlyle

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

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“Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.” — Warren Buffett

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“Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.” — Victor Hugo

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

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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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“If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.” — Epicurus

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

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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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“Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.” — Franz Liszt

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

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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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“Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.” — Marcus Aurelius

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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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“When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.” — H. L. Mencken

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“All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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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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