Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

men

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

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

A government of laws, and not of men.

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

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

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

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

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

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 see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

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

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

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

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

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

Men marry because they are tired women, because they are curious both are disappointed.

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

Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

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

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Time takes away the grief of men.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

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

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

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

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

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

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

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

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.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.

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

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

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

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

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

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence they go stark, raving mad.

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

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

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

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

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

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

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

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

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

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

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

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

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

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

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

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

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

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

Neutral men are the devil's allies.

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

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.

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

No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

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

The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.

There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

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

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

We cannot learn men from books.

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions their reasons are always different.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

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

Adversity causes some men to break others to break records.

All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.

All men of action are dreamers.

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

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.

All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.

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.

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

By indignities men come to dignities.

By nature, men love newfangledness.

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

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

Content makes poor men rich discontent makes rich men poor.

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

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities strong men make them.

Great hopes make great men.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

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.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

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

Observe all men, thyself most.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

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

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

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

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

The less men think, the more they talk.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

The worst men often give the best advice.

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.

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.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

We have guided missiles and misguided men.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

Men do not fail they give up trying.

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

Men, their rights, and nothing more women, their rights, and nothing less.

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

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

Reputation is what men and women think of us character is what God and angels know of us.

Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.

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

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

These are the times that try men's souls.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.

Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.

A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

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

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

Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

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

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

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

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

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.

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

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.'

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

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

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

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

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

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies.

Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.

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

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

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

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

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

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

For tis not in mere death that men die most.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

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

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

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.

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

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

Men are not against you they are merely for themselves.

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

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

Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

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

Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.

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

Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

Men often act knowingly against their interest.

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.

Men's vows are women's traitors!

Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.

Strong women only marry weak men.

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

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

There would be no great men if there were no little ones.

Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.

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

As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other.

But men are men the best sometimes forget.

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

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land the great ones eat up the little ones.

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.

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

I have no ambition to govern men it is a painful and thankless office.

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

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.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

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

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

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.

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

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

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

Women may fall when there's no strength in men.

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.

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

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

Men are what their mothers made them.

Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

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

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

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

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

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 ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

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

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

Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.

Produce great men, the rest follows.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

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

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

Study men, not historians.

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

The most positive men are the most credulous.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.

Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

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.

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!'

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

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

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

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

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

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

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.

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

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.

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

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

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

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

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.

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

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

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

'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'

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

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

Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

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

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

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

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.

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

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

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

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

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

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

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

Men are only as great as they are kind.

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

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

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 despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

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

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

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

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 machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.

The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.

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

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

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

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

Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.

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

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

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

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.

Power does not corrupt men fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

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

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

The law will never make a man free it is men who have got to make the law free.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

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 men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

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

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

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

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

Dreaming men are haunted men.

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

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

If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.

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

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

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

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

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

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

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

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

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

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

Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.

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

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

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

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

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

There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

When women go wrong, men go right after them.

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

A man's kiss is his signature.

All men are equal before fish.

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

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

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

All religions have been made by men.

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.

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

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

I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.

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

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

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

Bachelors know more about women than married men if they didn't they'd be married too.

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

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

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

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

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

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

In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.

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

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

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

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

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

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later for another thing, they die earlier.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.

There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.

There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.

There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.

To die for an idea it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes.

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.