981 private quotes tagged men

“He had read much, if one considers his long life but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.” — Isaac Asimov

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“I am an agnostic I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.” — Clarence Darrow

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“Men are actually the weaker sex.” — George Weinberg

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“All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.” — Hilaire Belloc

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“Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.” — Max Lerner

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“Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.” — Anthony Burgess

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“Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.” — Katharine Hepburn

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“I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.” — Susan B. Anthony

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“How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.” — Søren Kierkegaard

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“I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.” — Johnny Depp

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“The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.” — Andrew Jackson

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“It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.” — Charles Dickens

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“I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.” — John Keats

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“Neutral men are the devil's allies.” — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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“I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.” — Søren Kierkegaard

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“It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.” — George MacDonald

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“Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love.” — Lucinda Franks

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“A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.” — Mario Puzo

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“Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.” — Henry Rollins

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“Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.” — Charles Dickens

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“Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.” — Martin H. Fischer

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“I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.” — John Locke

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“Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.” — Edmund Waller

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“People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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“When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.” — Pope John Paul II

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