981 private quotes tagged men

“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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“Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?” — Victor Hugo

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“No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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“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 history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice!” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.” — Aldous Huxley

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

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“These are the times that try men's souls.” — Thomas Paine

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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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“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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“Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.” — Blaise Pascal

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

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“I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.” — George Eliot

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“Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.” — George Bernard Shaw

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

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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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“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.” — Herman Melville

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

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