981 private quotes tagged men

“History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they've answered the call in bravery and sacrifice.” — Tim Pawlenty

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“Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.” — Katharine Hepburn

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“Dreaming men are haunted men.” — Stephen Vincent Benet

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“A government of laws, and not of men.” — John Adams

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“All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.” — T. E. Lawrence

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“All men of action are dreamers.” — James Huneker

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“Personally, I like two types of men - domestic and foreign.” — Mae West

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“Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“I swear by that old expression, 'One monkey don't stop no show!' The reality is, we still have some good men out there, and we should hail those men as the kings they are.” — Angie Stone

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“For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.” — Simon Wiesenthal

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“Today is Valentine's Day - or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day!” — Jay Leno

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

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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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“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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“We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.” — Charles de Montesquieu

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“The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.” — Niccolo Machiavelli

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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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“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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“For tis not in mere death that men die most.” — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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“The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.” — Norman Cousins

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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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