981 private quotes tagged men

“Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.” — Charles de Secondat

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“Labor disgraces no man unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.” — Ulysses S. Grant

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“Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.” — Charles Caleb Colton

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“Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.” — Democritus

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“The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.” — John Ruskin

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“When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.” — Frederick Douglass

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“It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.” — Jean-Paul Sartre

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“It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.” — James Otis

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“I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper.” — Emo Philips

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“Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.” — Cardinal Richelieu

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“Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.” — Thomas Szasz

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“I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.” — Douglas MacArthur

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“The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!” — Maria Montessori

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“Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.” — Douglas Bader

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“There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.” — P. J. O'Rourke

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“The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.” — Gloria Steinem

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“When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.” — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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“The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.” — George Berkeley

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“Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.” — Charlotte Whitton

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“Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.” — Mary Wollstonecraft

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“Men, their rights, and nothing more women, their rights, and nothing less.” — Susan B. Anthony

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“We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.” — Jimmy Carter

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“As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.” — Adam Smith

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“As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.” — Nora Ephron

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“Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?” — Jean Giraudoux

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