981 private quotes tagged men

“Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.” — Sigmund Freud

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“Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.” — Alexander Hamilton

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“All brave men love for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne

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“A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.” — Sydney Smith

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“I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.” — Little Richard

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“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.” — Anais Nin

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“Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.” — Quintilian

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“For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men.” — Isabel Allende

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“Men are more prone to cheating, definitely.” — Blu Cantrell

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“You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around.” — Clint Eastwood

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“People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.” — Muhammad Iqbal

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“Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.” — Bill Maher

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“Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.” — John Steinbeck

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“One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.” — Margaret Thatcher

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“Men cheat for the same reason that dogs lick their balls... because they can.” — Kim Cattrall

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“What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men.” — Vanessa Marcil

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“I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.” — Robert Green Ingersoll

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“Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.” — Søren Kierkegaard

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“There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.” — Billy Graham

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“I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.” — Charles V

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“A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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“Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.” — Ayrton Senna

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“The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.” — John Stuart Mill

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“I'm a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four.” — Joel Rosenberg

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“There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.” — Alexis de Tocqueville

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