'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?

A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.

A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.

A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men.

A government of laws, and not of men.

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.

A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

A man 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.

A man's kiss is his signature.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.

A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.

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.

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.

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.

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner!'

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.

All men are equal before fish.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

All men are liable to error and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

All men are not created equal but should be treated as though they were under the law.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.

All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

All men of action are dreamers.

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

All religions have been made by men.

All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

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

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

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.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

Bad men are full of repentance.

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.

Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own.

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.

Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

But men are men the best sometimes forget.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'

By indignities men come to dignities.

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

Circumstances rule men men do not rule circumstances.

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

Content makes poor men rich discontent makes rich men poor.

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.

Culture makes all men gentle.

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.

Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He he glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Dreaming men are haunted men.

Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

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.

Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.

English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

Every woman needs one man in her life who is strong and responsible. Given this security, she can proceed to do what she really wants to do-fall in love with men who are weak and irresponsible.

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Few things are impracticable in themselves and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.

For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

For tis not in mere death that men die most.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

Forgive, son men are men they needs must err.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world.

Girls we love for what they are young men for what they promise to be.

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

Give to everyone who begs from you and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.

God is in all men, but all men are not in God that is why we suffer.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

Great hopes make great men.

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak and at last some crisis shows what we have become.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

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.

Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.

He had read much, if one considers his long life but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.

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.

History does nothing it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.

I am an agnostic I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

I don't think feminism, as I understand the definition, implies the rejection of maternal values, nurturing children, caring about the men in your life. That is just nonsense to me.

I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.

I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.

I have 20,000 girlfriends, all around the world.

I have always supported measures and principles and not men.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'

I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink.

I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid.

I like being a woman, even in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.

I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.

I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.

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.

I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men?

I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.

I saw six men kicking and punching the mother-in-law. My neighbour said 'Are you going to help?' I said 'No, six should be enough.'

I shall never be a heretic I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.

I swear by that old expression, 'One monkey don't stop no show!' The reality is, we still have some good men out there, and we should hail those men as the kings they are.

I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

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.

I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing meI will be concerned at my own want of ability.

I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.

I've found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology.

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

If we know that our own men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the enemy is not open to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory.

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

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.

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both this is an observation of the Middle Way.

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor as such differences become less, it grows feeble and when they disappear, it will vanish too.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.

It was pride that changed angels into devils it is humility that makes men as angels.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

It's absolutely stupid that we live without an ozone layer. We have men, we've got rockets, we've got saran wrap - fix it!

It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.

It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.

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.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense.

Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.

Labor disgraces no man unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

Live as brave men and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!

Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

Make no little plans they have no magic to stir men's blood.

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

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

Many men are contemptuous of riches few can give them away.

Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

Men are actually the weaker sex.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves they therefore remain bound.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Men are different. When they are in love they may also have other girlfriends.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

Men are like the stars some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.

Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

Men are more prone to cheating, definitely.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Men are not against you they are merely for themselves.

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

Men are only as loyal as their options.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

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

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

Men blaspheme what they do not know.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

Men cheat for the same reason that dogs lick their balls... because they can.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

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.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

Men do not fail they give up trying.

Men do not have to cook their food they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Men do not quit playing because they grow old they grow old because they quit playing.

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

Men don't care what's on TV. They only care what else is on TV.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals nay it is treachery to comrades.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.

Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.

Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

Men must know their limitations.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

Men often act knowingly against their interest.

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.

Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.

Men often take their imagination for their heart and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

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.

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

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

Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable.

Men should pledge themselves to nothing for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.

Men should strive to think much and know little.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.

Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.

Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.

Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.

Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.

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

Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.

Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

More men die of jealousy than of cancer.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.

Neutral men are the devil's allies.

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.

No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.

No nice men are good at getting taxis.

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

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.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.

Observe all men, thyself most.

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.

Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.

One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

Only free men can negotiate prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

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.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

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.

Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.

Personally, I like two types of men - domestic and foreign.

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

Produce great men, the rest follows.

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.

Reasonable men adapt to the world around them unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it's quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid.

Sometimes I've been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.

Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.

Study men, not historians.

Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

That common cold of the male psyche, fear of commitment.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

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.

The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.

The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.

The evil that men do lives after them the good is oft interred with their bones.

The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.

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

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.

The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice!

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.