981 private quotes tagged men

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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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“Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.”— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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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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“We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.”— John F. Kennedy
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“As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.”— Maya Angelou
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“If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.”— William Shakespeare
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“How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?”— Lao Tzu
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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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“These are the times that try men's souls.”— Thomas Paine
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“Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.”— Hunter S. Thompson
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“It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.”— Friedrich Nietzsche
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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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“Men's vows are women's traitors!”— William Shakespeare
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“Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.”— Bertrand Russell
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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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“If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.”— Thomas Carlyle
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“Books are not men and yet they stay alive.”— Henry Ward Beecher
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“What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.”— C. S. Lewis
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“Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.”— Leonardo da Vinci
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“Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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“When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.”— Henry Ward Beecher