981 private quotes tagged men

“Books are not men and yet they stay alive.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.” — André Gide

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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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“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” — George Orwell

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“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.” — Abraham Lincoln

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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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“There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.” — Ernest Hemingway

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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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“Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.” — Muhammad Ali

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“As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.” — Thomas Jefferson

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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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“There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“We have guided missiles and misguided men.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.” — Aristotle

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

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

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“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.” — Socrates

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“An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.” — Thomas Fuller

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“Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Women may fall when there's no strength in men.” — William Shakespeare

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“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.” — John F. Kennedy

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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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