981 private quotes tagged men

“Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.” — Francis Bacon

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“Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Men exist for the sake of one another.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.” — Henry Ford

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“There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.” — John F. Kennedy

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“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.” — Harry S. Truman

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“Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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“When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.” — James Madison

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“Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.” — Blaise Pascal

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“Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.” — Karl Marx

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“Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.” — George S. Patton

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“Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.” — Robert Frost

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“There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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“The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.” — Elbert Hubbard

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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 often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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“Great things are done when men and mountains meet.” — William Blake

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