981 private quotes tagged men

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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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“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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“Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.”— Karl Marx
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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 who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.”— Bertrand Russell
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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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“Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.”— Warren Buffett
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“Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.”— Plato
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“Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.”— Blaise Pascal
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“Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.”— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.”— Epicurus
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“Books are not men and yet they stay alive.”— Henry Ward Beecher
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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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“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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“The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.”— Thomas Carlyle
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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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“Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.”— Theodore Roosevelt
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“More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.”— Napoleon Hill
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“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”— Blaise Pascal
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“There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.”— Blaise Pascal
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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 frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.”— H. L. Mencken
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“Men exist for the sake of one another.”— Marcus Aurelius