981 private quotes tagged men

“What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?” — Erma Bombeck

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“A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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“Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.” — Ayrton Senna

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“The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.” — John Stuart Mill

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“I'm a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four.” — Joel Rosenberg

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“There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.” — Alexis de Tocqueville

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“All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.” — Jean de la Bruyere

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“A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.” — John Stuart Mill

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“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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“Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own.” — Nora Ephron

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“The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.” — Charles de Gaulle

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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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“I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should play in their lives with their children and in their lives with their women.” — Will Smith

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“Dear Lord we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving.” — Joseph Auslander

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“It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.” — Niccolo Machiavelli

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“Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.” — Charles Dickens

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“The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.” — John Adams

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“I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.” — Charles Dickens

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“Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence they go stark, raving mad.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky

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