981 private quotes tagged men

“Observe all men, thyself most.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.” — Voltaire

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“Men are born to succeed, not to fail.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.” — Charles Spurgeon

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“Men are only as great as they are kind.” — Elbert Hubbard

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“You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.” — Henry Ford

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“The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.” — Sun Tzu

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“The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.” — George Eliot

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“There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.” — Epicurus

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“The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.” — Helen Keller

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“Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.” — H. L. Mencken

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“The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.” — Ayn Rand

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“The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.” — Plato

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“If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.” — Blaise Pascal

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“Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.” — Aristotle

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“All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.” — Henry David Thoreau

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