981 private quotes tagged men

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

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“Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.” — Aristotle

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

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

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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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“Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.” — Voltaire

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“'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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“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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“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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“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.” — Thomas Paine

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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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“Produce great men, the rest follows.” — Walt Whitman

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“Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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“One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Great hopes make great men.” — Thomas Fuller

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

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“Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“If we know that our own men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the enemy is not open to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory.” — Sun Tzu

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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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