981 private quotes tagged men

“All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.”— David Allan Coe

“Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.”— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“All men and women have an equal need for love. When these needs are not fulfilled it is easy to have our feelings hurt, for which we blame our partner.”— John Gray

“Adversity causes some men to break others to break records.”— William Arthur Ward

“Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.”— Aldo Leopold

“Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.”— Thurgood Marshall

“There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.”— John Adams

“All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.”— Herodotus

“It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.”— Robert Louis Stevenson

“A government of laws, and not of men.”— John Adams

“Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.”— Walter Lippmann

“More men die of jealousy than of cancer.”— Joseph P. Kennedy

“Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.”— Tiger Woods

“Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.”— William James

“The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.”— Niccolo Machiavelli

“All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.”— Walter Scott

“I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.”— Frank Sinatra

“Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.”— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.”— Jim Rohn

“A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.”— Lorraine Hansberry

“Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.”— Horace Mann

“Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.”— W. E. B. Du Bois

“When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.”— Mike Tyson

“Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.”— Niccolo Machiavelli

“Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.”— Niccolo Machiavelli