981 private quotes tagged men

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

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

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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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“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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“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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“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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“A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.” — Woodrow Wilson

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

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

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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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“Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.” — H. L. Mencken

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“Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.” — Edmund Burke

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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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