981 private quotes tagged men

“It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.” — Aeschylus

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“Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.” — Aristotle

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“What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.” — H. L. Mencken

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“These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.” — Abraham Lincoln

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

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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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“That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.” — Aldous Huxley

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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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“Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.” — Karl Marx

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

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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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“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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“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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“Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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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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