981 private quotes tagged men

“What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.” — Aldous Huxley

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“It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.” — H. L. Mencken

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“So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.” — Aldous Huxley

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“Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

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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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“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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“Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.” — Victor Hugo

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“Men shut their doors against a setting sun.” — William Shakespeare

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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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“The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.” — Thomas Aquinas

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“Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.” — Ayn Rand

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“I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'” — William Butler Yeats

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“Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?” — Confucius

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“Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“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.” — Will Rogers

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“Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.” — Sophocles

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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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“The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.” — Channing Pollock

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