981 private quotes tagged men

“Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak and at last some crisis shows what we have become.” — Brooke Foss Westcott

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“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.” — Alice Walker

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“I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.” — Charles V

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“I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.” — Margaret Thatcher

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“Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.” — Marianne Williamson

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“When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.” — Alexander Hamilton

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“I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.” — Malcom X

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“There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.” — Black Elk

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“Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.” — Gary Lineker

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“A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.” — Francoise Sagan

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“If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.” — Francis of Assisi

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“When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.” — Ezra Pound

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“The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.” — John Locke

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“All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.” — Brian Tracy

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“Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.” — David Ogilvy

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“The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.” — Charles Dickens

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“Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.” — Charles de Gaulle

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“It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.” — Niccolo Machiavelli

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“I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.” — Susan B. Anthony

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“To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.” — Carlos Castaneda

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“The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.” — William James

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“You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.” — Ho Chi Minh

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“Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?” — Virginia Woolf

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“There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.” — Albert Ellis

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“'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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