981 private quotes tagged men

“They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.” — Douglas MacArthur

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“Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.” — Garrison Keillor

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“Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.” — Niccolo Machiavelli

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“The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.” — John Ruskin

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“When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.” — Frederick Douglass

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“It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.” — Jean-Paul Sartre

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“It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.” — James Otis

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“Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.” — Black Elk

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“I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper.” — Emo Philips

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“Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.” — Cardinal Richelieu

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“Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.” — Thomas Szasz

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“I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.” — Douglas MacArthur

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“The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!” — Maria Montessori

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“Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.” — Douglas Bader

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“There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.” — P. J. O'Rourke

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“The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.” — Gloria Steinem

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“When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.” — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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“The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.” — George Berkeley

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“Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.” — Charlotte Whitton

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“Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.” — Mary Wollstonecraft

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“Men, their rights, and nothing more women, their rights, and nothing less.” — Susan B. Anthony

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“We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.” — Jimmy Carter

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“As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.” — Adam Smith

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“As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.” — Nora Ephron

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“Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?” — Jean Giraudoux

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