981 private quotes tagged men

“The only really happy folk are married women and single men.” — H. L. Mencken

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“The worst men often give the best advice.” — Francis Bacon

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“All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.” — Plato

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“Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.” — Sigmund Freud

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“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.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.” — Julius Caesar

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“Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.” — William Shakespeare

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“A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?” — George Eliot

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“Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“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.” — Helen Keller

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“Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.” — H. L. Mencken

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“Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.” — William Shakespeare

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“Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.” — Blaise Pascal

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“Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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“From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.” — Aldous Huxley

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“Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.” — Nelson Mandela

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