981 private quotes tagged men

“Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.” — Albert Camus

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“Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.” — Maya Angelou

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“It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.” — William Blake

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“The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.” — Blaise Pascal

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“I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.” — Harry S. Truman

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“Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.” — William Shakespeare

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“Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.” — H. L. Mencken

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“Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.” — Voltaire

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“It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.” — Julius Caesar

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“It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics.” — Stephen Hawking

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“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.” — Plato

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“All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.” — Blaise Pascal

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“It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.” — Edmund Burke

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“The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.” — Charlie Chaplin

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“I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.” — Coco Chanel

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“A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.” — Edgar Allan Poe

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“Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.” — Dale Carnegie

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“All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.” — Paulo Coelho

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“Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.” — Epictetus

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“Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.” — Aristotle

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“I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.” — Henry David Thoreau

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