“If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.”
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“We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.”
“All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.”
“Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.”
“All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.”
“Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.”
“Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.”
“It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.”
“Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.”
“Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.”
“In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.”
“I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.”
“Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.”
“Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.”
“If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.”
“Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.”
“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.”
“Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.”
“Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.”
“I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.”
“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.”
“If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.”
“A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.”
“Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.”