We’ve sourced some of the most interesting and thought-provoking Men Quotes from George Bernard Shaw, Buddha, Baruch Spinoza, Florynce Kennedy, Albert Schweitzer. Each of the following quotes is overflowing with creativity, and knowledge.
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.
The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him.
It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.
Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the ‘Not Me,’ that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, ‘Nature.’
Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
Men are the dreams of a shadow.
Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.
Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.
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.
Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
All men of action are dreamers.
The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
Yes, we become stronger when men and women, young and old, gay and straight, native-born and immigrant fight together to create the kind of country we all know we can become.
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage – they’ve experienced pain and bought jewelry.
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.
I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become.
Hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made.
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.
Numbers don’t lie. Women lie, men lie, but numbers don’t lie.
Good men must not obey the laws too well.
Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
The more people we can attract to science and technology – men, women, everybody – the more economic opportunity we have as a nation.
Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.
Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.
Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Punishment is now unfashionable… because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
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.
A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.
Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.
Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.
Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.
Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.
If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.
In nuclear war all men are cremated equal.
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.
Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.
Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
Let’s be very clear: Strong men – men who are truly role models – don’t need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful. People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
Why do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to.
Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
Give to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Some men play golf. I’ve got this crazy thing about maintaining our nation’s maritime heritage.
Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.
I don’t like the clean-shaven boy with the necktie and the good job. I like desperate men, men with broken teeth and broken minds and broken ways. They interest me. They are full of surprises and explosions.
Armed Forces Day on May 21, and the Memorial Day weekend that follows, is a time to honor, remember and recognize those who serve and have served our country, as well as those who have died in service. As we reflect, let’s not forget the many sacrifices made at home as well in support of our men and women in uniform.
I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.
Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
Young men, trust God, and make the future bright with blessing. Old men, trust God, and magnify him for all the mercies of the past.
What I’ve never understood is why some women use plastic surgery to make themselves more attractive to men. The most beautiful woman is someone who’s happy and is always smiling.
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
It would be a much better country if women did not vote. That is simply a fact. In fact, in every presidential election since 1950 – except Goldwater in ’64 – the Republican would have won, if only the men had voted.
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.
There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.
Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?
The straight line belongs to men, the curved one to God.
To me, it’s not the end of the world if I end up not being with someone. I love romance. I love sex. I love men’s company, but I don’t feel I have to be married. Men are a wonderful part of life, like chocolate. But my life goes on whether they’re there or not.
Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.
Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
Honor is simply the morality of superior men.
Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
Justice means minding one’s own business and not meddling with other men’s concerns.
Such truth, as opposeth no man’s profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.
We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men… We are who we are because they were who they were. It’s wise to know where you come from, who called your name.
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
The person 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.
Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.
Force always attracts men of low morality.
The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.
Natural life, lived naturally as it is lived in the countryside, has none of that progress which is the base of happiness. Men and women in rural communities can be compared to a spring that rises out of a rock and spreads in irregular ever-widening circles. But the general principle is static.
These people are very unskilled in arms… with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.
I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don’t seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper.
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?
War is big business. It’s a lot of money going to and fro, and unfortunately a lot of angst, and a lot of fear, and a lot of doubt. And eventually a lot of wonderful people, like soldiers, like men and women that are out there trying to do the best they can, they come back being wounded on many levels.
Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.
What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.
As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.
We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.
The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.
Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Men’s vows are women’s traitors!
God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.
Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
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.
The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes – or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert’s dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two – is gone.
I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
I have known war as few men now living know it. It’s very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.
Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must – at that moment – become the center of the universe.
For tis not in mere death that men die most.
Democracy is not merely a form of government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards fellow men.
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it’s quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid.
In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.
Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.
The less men think, the more they talk.
There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
The true index of a man’s character is the health of his wife.
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
To be a man is to suffer for others. God help us to be men!
Most men are within a finger’s breadth of being mad.
Girls are capable of doing everything men are capable of doing. Sometimes they have more imagination than men.
The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror – and America is honored to be their friend.
What do women do when they get together? We sit around and talk! Men, not so much. My theory is that this difference is genetic and dates back to the hunter-gatherer societies, when the men had to be quiet as they hunted, lest they scare away the bison and then everyone starved to death and it was all their fault.
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.
Do not borrow the productions of other men’s brains and pens and recite them as a lesson; but make the most of the talents, the brain power, that God has given you.
All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You’d be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.
If it’s natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn’t do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
There is something good in men that really yearn for discipline.
My father… gave me a positive connection with men because he is a gentleman.
Everyone is allowed to be vulnerable. I think women and men and dogs and cats and ants and aliens can all express themselves and be vulnerable.
He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.
A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.
Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
Revenge by young men is considered gain, even at the cost of their own lives, but old men who stay at home in times of war, and mothers who have sons to lose, know better.
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
‘Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.
When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one’s reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.
There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
Men have become the tools of their tools.
On Memorial Day, we remember the service of those brave military men and women who paid the ultimate sacrifice defending and protecting our freedoms.
Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.
Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.
All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.
Sometimes a lot of us men think we are doing everything for the woman we love, but there is an aspect of a woman a man doesn’t understand.
Pride, envy, avarice – these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.
Whether it is a tsunami, or whether it is a hurricane, whether it’s an earthquake – when we see these great fatal and natural acts, men and women of every ethnic persuasion come together and they just want to help.
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
Italian men do appreciate beautiful women. They’re not afraid of the beauty, which is nice.
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.
When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom.
I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world – a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.
All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.
When I was 11, I saw this ad for dish soap powder that said, ‘Women all over America are fighting greasy pots and pans.’ I was so angry. I couldn’t understand why it didn’t say men as well.
The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
If the whole of mankind is to be united into one brotherhood, all obstacles must be removed so that men, all over the surface of the globe, should be as children playing in a garden.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
One of the things I’ve told men over and over and over and over is if you’re being rejected by all the women that you approach, it’s not the women!
What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.
Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.
A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.
People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.
When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
Men are only as loyal as their options.
Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
It was the wont of the immortal gods sometimes to grant prosperity and long impunity to men whose crimes they were minded to punish in order that a complete reverse of fortune might make them suffer more bitterly.
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.
The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.
War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.
Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.
Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
I want to congratulate all the men out there who are working diligently to be good fathers whether they are stepfathers, or biological fathers or just spiritual fathers.
Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.
If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man’s dedication to world peace… a representation of man’s belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.
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.
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can’t wake up.
If women will not accept marriage with subjection, nor men proffer it without, there is, there can be, no alternative. The women who will not be ruled must live without marriage. And during this transition period… single women make comfortable and attractive homes for themselves.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.
All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
An artist needn’t be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.
My mother was a dominant force in our family. And I always saw her as the leader. And that was great for me as a young woman, because I never saw that women had to be dominated by men.
Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?
Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
I have always supported measures and principles and not men.
The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.
Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels – men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.
Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.
Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.
Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.
There are two types of men: the great and the small.
All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words ‘Ich bin ein Berliner!’
I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because men gain power as they get older. Women lose power as they get older. Men are seen as gaining experience and being distinguished. Sons look forward to replacing their fathers.
As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.
Men are what their mothers made them.
Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.
The purpose of the mission must be thoroughly understood beforehand, and the men must be inspired with a sense of personal dedication that knows no limitations… In an age of high technology and Jedi Knights, we often overlook the need for personal involvement, but we do so at our own risk.
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.
Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
Neutral men are the devil’s allies.
Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can’t get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
A woman of the world is anxious to exhibit her form and shape, whether walking, standing, sitting, or sleeping. Even when represented as a picture, she desires to captivate with the charms of her beauty and, thus, to rob men of their steadfast heart.
A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men.
Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
Every woman needs one man in her life who is strong and responsible. Given this security, she can proceed to do what she really wants to do-fall in love with men who are weak and irresponsible.
Before success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do.
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.
Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.
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.
Yes, the pyramids have been built, but if you give me 300,000 disciplined men and give me 30 years, I could build a bigger one.
No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.
Persuasion is achieved by the speaker’s personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.
Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.
There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.
Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.
Men should strive to think much and know little.
Achieving gender equality requires the engagement of women and men, girls and boys. It is everyone’s responsibility.
Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.
I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls, the right to breathe and the right to vote, the freedom to choose their friends, enjoy the sunshine, and ride on the railroads, uncursed by color; thinking, dreaming, working as they will in a kingdom of beauty and love.
What religion a man holds, to what race he belongs, these things are not important; the really important thing is this knowledge: the knowledge of God’s plan for men. For God has a plan, and that plan is evolution.
Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
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.
Great hopes make great men.
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.
The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.
The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel’s song, which had lost its way and come on Earth, and sang on undyingly, smiting the hearts of men with sweetest wounds, and putting for the while an angel’s nature into us.
Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
Women are more likely to have sex and fall in love, which can be tough because that’s not the way men work.
I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.
Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.
Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
My weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order.
Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
All men by nature desire knowledge.
Men are like wine – some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.
There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.
One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.
The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers.
Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one’s soul, when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.
We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have – for their usefulness.
I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.
The time has come for all good men to rise above principle.
Youth is impulsive. When our young men grow angry at some real or imaginary wrong, and disfigure their faces with black paint, it denotes that their hearts are black, and that they are often cruel and relentless, and our old men and old women are unable to restrain them. Thus it has ever been.
The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.
A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
Father’s Day is hopefully a time when the culture says, ‘This is our moment to look at who our men and boys are.’
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.
The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.
Men aren’t necessities. They’re luxuries.
There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god, for dominance. In all great men this mixture is striking, and in none more so than in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.
Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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.
Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
There’s three things men always talk about – women, sports, and cars.
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
Elegance is always in style for men. There are all different kinds of elegance. It can be silk, it can be a T-shirt.
For those who have made the ultimate sacrifice, we are grateful that such men and women were among us. For those who continue to serve, we honor their commitment. For those who return to civilian life, we honor their service.
In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer – the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.
Men don’t pay attention to small things.
Don’t get caught up in the ‘look’ thing. Sometimes, we as men and women, the first thing that attracts us to someone is their physical appearance, and that’s not always a good thing because what’s good on the outside is not always good on the inside.
A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.
Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.
No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.
Men fall in love with their eyes – they like what they see – and women fall in love with their ears – they like what they hear!
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.
Men often act knowingly against their interest.
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.
Men lie the most. Men lie all the time.
Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
Produce great men, the rest follows.
All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.
My mom said the only reason men are alive is for lawn care and vehicle maintenance.
Sometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.
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.
I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don’t see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.
Death can never kill an idea. Ideas are more powerful than death. Ideas outlive men and can never be destroyed.
Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.
I believe in God, who made of one blood all nations that on earth do dwell. I believe that all men, black and brown and white, are brothers, varying through time and opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing in no essential particular, and alike in soul and the possibility of infinite development.
The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.
Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men.
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It’s a whole different way of thinking.
If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.
Men want a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue. That is what is written in their hearts. That is what little boys play at. That is what men’s movies are about. You just see it. It is undeniable.
There were some great clinicians in the 20th century – great men. Freud was a genius; Jung was a genius, Carl Rogers was a genius – there’s a half-dozen psychologists of the 1950s and humanists of the 1960s.
I’m fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?
Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.
Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.
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.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
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.
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.
Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.
Women’s liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It’s men who are discriminated against. They can’t bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.
Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, as intelligent Mr. Toad.
The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.
Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.
We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
