981 private quotes tagged men

“Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.” — George S. Patton

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“Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.” — Anatole France

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“Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.” — Aristotle

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“Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.” — Karl Marx

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“Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.” — William Penn

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“It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.” — Helen Keller

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“The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.” — Khalil Gibran

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“Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.” — Blaise Pascal

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“The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.” — C. S. Lewis

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“The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.” — Napoleon Hill

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“Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.” — Aristotle

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“The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.” — John F. Kennedy

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“The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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