981 private quotes tagged men

“Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.” — Coco Chanel

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“Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.” — Charlie Chaplin

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“Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.” — Gary Oldman

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“A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.” — Roald Dahl

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“Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.” — George S. Patton

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“Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.” — Anatole France

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“Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.” — Aristotle

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“Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.” — William Penn

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“Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.” — Helen Keller

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“The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.” — Khalil Gibran

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“The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.” — C. S. Lewis

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“Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.” — John F. Kennedy

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“Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.” — Aristotle

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