Quotation Explorer - 'Men'

Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing they die earlier. - H. L. Mencken

Men cry not for themselves, but for their comrades - Loveless, from The Compilation of Final Fantasy VII

Fear of nature led to society; hatred among men lead to culture; envy among women led to virtue. - Thiruman Archunan

There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death. - Mary Stewart

This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power. - Herodotus

The rest of us have never embraced your victim mentality; we are not victims. We are people, the same way that men are. We are equal, yet different. We, unlike you, realize that is not mutually exclusive. - Lori Ziganto

All men should be feminists. If men care about women’s rights the world will be a better place. We are better off when women are empowered – it leads to a better society. - John Legend

The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.

If men want to oppose war, it is *statism* that they must oppose. - Ayn Rand

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

All night I dreamt of bonfires and burn piles and ghosts of men, and spirits behind those birds of flame. I cannot tell anymore when a door opens or closes, I can only hear the frame saying, Walk through. - Ada Limon

All men must die. - Charlotte Brontë

Having money will make you look enticing to women even if you are not a good-looking dude. Don’t believe me, go ask Mick Jagger, Donald Trump, Jay-Z and the rest of the fugly men who have all the money and get all the fine women. - Rebecca Scott

Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil. - Epictetus

When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society. - Pope John Paul II

Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate. - Alice Walker

Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets; for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say. - Sir Henry Taylor

Hundreds of wise men cannot make the world a heaven, but one idiot is enough to turn it into a hell. - Raheel Farooq

If working-hours were natural, then employed men would only get erections between 5 p.m. and 9 a.m. … during the week. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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.

Newpaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff. - Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them. - Plato

Men of few words are the best men. - William Shakespeare

Slowly, Jimmy held up his outstretched hands. Men had been arguing for two hundred years about this gesture; would every creature, everywhere in the universe, interpret this as "See--no weapons"? But no one could think of anything better. - Arthur C. Clarke

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom. - Plato

We have had enough of the old men and the money-counters!" And people further off took up the cry: "Up Bowman, and down with the moneybags, - J.R.R. Tolkien

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.

If I see darkness in men of God I bring light to them. - Sunday Adelaja

Politics is the pursuit of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men. - George Jean Nathan

Probably all laws are useless, for good men do not want laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them.

Always remember, Son, the best boss is the one who bosses the least. Whether it's cattle, or horses, or men; the least government is the best government. - Ralph Moody

I don't have a lot of patience for stories in which women are rescued by men. - Neil Gaiman

There are many men but rare fathers - Bernard Kelvin Clive

Sometimes she thought the Creator had only made men to cause trouble for women. - Robert Jordan

True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels themthe desire to do rightis precisely the same. - Robert E. Lee

In the last analysis, my fellow country men, as we in America would be the first to claim, a people are responsible for the acts of their government. - Woodrow Wilson

There's something in our world that makes men lose their heads--they couldn't be fair if they tried. - Harper Lee

Animals are irrational men - Safir Kassim Booudjelal

Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in new language that has not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance which has grown stale, which men of old have spoken.

... in practice the standard for what constitutes rape is set not at the level of women's experience of violation but just above the level of coercion acceptable to men. - Judith Lewis Herman

[We need reforms] to make the Negro church a place where colored men and women of education and energy can work for the best things regardless of their belief or disbelief in unimportant dogmas and ancient and outworn creeds. - W.E.B. Du Bois

Wisdom frees men, even if they are in prison. - Matshona Dhliwayo

All the king's horses and all the king's men can't put the past together again. So let's remember: Don't try to saw sawdust. - Dale Carnegie

To believe your own thought: To believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, that is genius. - Henry David Thoreau

Before joining the bandwagon to vouch support for the ‘Women Empowerment’, let’s all make sure that our laws are free from flaws so that the men are not implicated in the fabricated cases. - Anuj Somany

Things on the essential list: vodka, Nine Inch Nails, a steady supply of mortal men, and an all-purpose bitchy attitude. - Richelle Mead

Let these men sing out their songs,they've been walking all day long,all their fortune's spent and gone...silver dollar in the subway station;quarters for the papers for the jobs. - Roman Payne

It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state. - Thomas Elliot

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge. - Claude Bernard

In the state of nature, indeed, all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the laws. - Charles de Montesquieu

In a society where women are truly equal to men, a kid bred by a theist mother and an atheist father is born an agnostic. In a patriarchal society, the kid is automatically an atheist. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely when they have exhausted all other alternatives. - Abba Eban

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

While the gods remained more human, the men were more divine. - Friedrich Schiller

There are men running governments who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches. - Will Rogers

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. - Ansel Adams

I think it's important as a women to know who you are and what you deserve. We, ourselves set the boundaries of what we choose to accept. Instead of complaining about the men who's actions don't fit your own & move on and find one that does. - Nikki Rowe

I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Women are like locked diaries that men expect to read like open books. - Munia Khan

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope. - Aeschyulus

To conquer fear, you must become fear - you must bask in the fear of the BOOK... and men fear most what they cannot see- The Power of the Book is spiritual. - Compton Gage

There is no happiness for him who does not travel, Rohita!Thus we have heard. Living in the society of men, the best man becomes a sinner… therefore, wander!… The fortune of him who is sitting, sits; it rises when he rises; it sleeps when he sleeps; it moves when he moves. Therefore, wander! - Aitareya Brahmanan in the Rigveda

There would be fewer absent fathers, if straight men were turned on only by women with whom they would not mind having children. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. - Henry David Thoreau

Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. - Ayn Rand

I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control, common men like me are in peril. [The World Is My Home (1991)] - James A. Michener

I will tell you something my father once told me. The difference between a brave man and a coward is very simple. It is a problem of love. A coward loves only himself … The brave man loves other men first and himself last. (From Meyer's The Son) - Phillipp Meyer

The guys who fear becoming fathers don't understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. The end product of child raising is not the child, but the parent. - Frank Pittman

Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff too prove that they are worthy of a woman's attention. - Camille Pagliah

When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs. - Oscar Wilde

God created all things. It's men who decide which ones are mistakes. - Beautiful Creatures

Even though men and women are different in our thinking, we all share the need and desire for compassion, compliments, and companionship. - Germany Kent

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear. - Herbert Agar

He will work off his crudities in time. I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully. - E.M. Forster

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts? - Confucius

No arsenal ... is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. - Ronald Reagan

Men are most virile and attractive between the ages of 35 and 55. Under 35 a man has too much to learn, and I don't have time to teach him. - Hedy Lamarr

I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news - John Muir

Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to. - H. Mumford Jones

There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship. - Mark Twain

We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community. - Haile Selassie I

Mozart liked to write letters while on the loo. He wrote, "I think it only fitting to write while shitting." This gave me the idea of, "I think it only fitting to read while ..." Who says men can't multitask? - Peter Rogers

Friendship was a concept men bandied about to save face when they were rejected. - Courtney Milan

He tells me to hold back the tears and winds me up like a toy, telling me that men don’t cry. He tells me no more because he’s gone and off with his own kids. I see him in the distance, proud and enlivened. He taught me how to cry and how to be strong at the same time. For others. - Joe Cao

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. - William Shakespeare

What’s interesting about the relationship between gay men and women is there can be a lot of affection, but there’s a line that you don’t cross. - Michael Carroll

Intelligent men never do a business; only a fool kills his own beautiful instincts for the sake of a word profit. - Thiruman Archunan

Men would have been badly in trouble if their hands didn’t fit their dick. - M.F. Moonzajer

There are different churches because men wanted to interpret the Bible to their favour and which conflicts with the next person's interpretation. These led to people starting different churches, that ministers what they interpret as right. - Unarine Ramaru

Money - you demolish cities, root men from their homes, you train and twist good minds and set them on to the most atrocious schemes. No limit, you make them adept at every kind of outrage, every godless crime - money - Sophocles (trans. Robert Fagles)

Great men don't strive for greatness, theysimply do great works. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them. - Epictetus

I like simple men and complicated women. - Don DeLillo

All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God. - Voltaire

For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief. - Sallust

The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men. - Reinhold Niebuhr

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges. - Joseph Fort Newton

The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more: women, their rights and nothing less. - Susan B. Anthony

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. - Gloria Steinem

Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son. - Lois McMaster Bujold

The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. - H. L. Mencken

If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling. - Joseph Addison

I don't believe men and women were meant to live together. I think perhaps they should just live next door. - Katherine Hepburn

I can still count on one hand the number of men I`ve slept with. - Mariah Carey

I am aware, of course, that many men do hate the sight of their wife and children. Doctors even have a name for these people: 'anglers'. - Jeremy Clarkson

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

Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are. - Henry Fielding

If women cannot eat the same food as men, we cannot experience equal status in the community. - Naomi Wolf

I have often wondered if the irrational fear some men have of women that incites them to subjugate and oppress the female species begins in the adage: "I brought you into this world, I can take you out! - Annastacia Dickerson

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted

There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. - William Shakespeare

In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory. - Cicero

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.

After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser. - Benjamin Franklin

Wise men taste after the heart, but the foolish ones ponder over the face. - Auliq-Ice

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

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity. - Francis Maitland Balfour

If got chance, 90% of married women in this world possess the power to manage home, child and career simultaneously, and many are still doing it. The challenge here is that what percent of married men has the will to say - I will help you out. - Shayana K.

We all were courageous in the starting moments, few of us stayed courageous till the final moments and the world called them successful men. - Amit Kalantri

If you give a man a hammer, he thinks he can solve all problems by pounding. Well, God gave men penises.... - Jacob M. Appel

Unless God has raised you up for this very thing, you will be worn out by the opposition of men and devils. But if God be for you, who can be against you? Are all of them together stronger than God? O be not weary of well doing! - John Wesley

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were decievers ever,- One foot in the sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never. - William Shakespeare

Liberty also means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. - George Bernard Shaw

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence. - Democritus

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.

The most unfair thing about sex is that men are almost always guaranteed an orgasm. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me. - Susan B. Anthony

Men will often admit other women are oppressed but not you. - Sheila Rowbotham

Men love women who are courageous for it means they can go all the way with him in his pursuit of his good dreams and intentions. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves. - Zelda Fitzgerald

When they [breasts] are huge, you become very self-conscious...I've learned something though, through my years of pondering and pontificating, and that is: men love them, and I love that. - Drew Barrymore

Your face, my thane, is as a book where men May read strange matters... - William Shakespeare

Men take care not to make women weep, for God counts their tears. - Thomas S. Monson

Why were drunks, almost always, persons of talent, personality, lovable qualities, gifts, brains, assets of all kinds (else why would anyone care?); why were so many brilliant men alcoholic? - Charles Jackson

Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially.

Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are bastards.

CIRCUS, n. A place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool. - Ambrose Bierce

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers. - Francois de Fenelon

If you can tag every Pakistani men as terrorists, you can definitely tag every Indian men as rapists... That's how the minority make an identity for the nation. - Gayathri Jayakumar

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error before an afflicted truth - Jeremy Taylor

Men are always ready to fight; it's tenderness that scares them. - Marty Rubin

Why is it when I pursue the praises of men I find myself with everything that I’ve looked for but nothing that I need? That’s because I have an extraordinary habit of looking for the wrong thing in the wrong place. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

The masks. that men have as faces, the outward shells they hold up for others to see while their minds shift in hidden directions" Discard 2 - Lois Charles

The death of a dog may not by some be regarded as a tragedy, but some dogs are more worthy than some men, and can be more justly mourned. - J. Jefferson Farson

Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth. - Søren Kierkegaard

A good place to meet a man is at the dry cleaner. These men usually have jobs and bathe. - Rita Rudner

Few men desire liberty: The majority are satisfied with a just master. - Sallust

I have always noticed in politics how often men are ruined by having too good a memory. - Alexis De Tocqueville

Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy. - Henry Kissinger

Men come and go. They lie, or die, or leave you. - George R.R. Martin

Men write Bibles. God doesn't. God writes in stars and worlds and seasons and Hudson Rivers and beautiful women. Creation is the good book. - Mark Siegel

A poet is a blind optimist.The world is against him formany reasons. But thepoet persists. He believesthat he is on the right track,no matter what any of his fellow men say. In hiseternal search for truth, thepoet is alone.He tries to be timeless in a society built on time. - Jack Kerouac

The most dangerous men on earth are those who are afraid they are wimps - James Gilligan

Most people find it difficult to understand purely verbal concepts. [...] We employ visual and spatial metaphors for a great many everyday expressions [...] We are so visually biased that we call our wisest men visionaries! - McLuhan Marshal

Lets be sheep of God, not sheep of men. - Kristy Robles

The thing that grieves the heart of the Lord is when God doesn’t see men who stand in defense of the truth - Sunday Adelaja

In this world, two ilk of men exist-those who think they don't need to, and those who think they must. A third alien type exists when indecisiveness is involved. - Solange nicole

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache. - G. K. Chesterton

Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel. - William Hazlitt

Women are better than men in handling their emotions, that is why every happy girl is not happy. - M.F. Moonzajer

If women were as good as men they'd be a lot better! - Terry Pratchett

Globally, millions of married men and women engage the servicesof sex workers each year. Despite growing health concerns aboutthe increased risk of STDs and HIV AIDS this trade continues toblossom, leading to the premature termination of several lives andthe dissolution of several marriages. - Oche Otorkpa

The thing that breaks the heart of God and makes him to cry out of frustration for his men and their whereabouts is when equity has been squeezed out of the public square - Sunday Adelaja

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who does not seek advice is a fool. His folly blinds him to Truth and makes him evil, stubborn, and a danger to his fellow men. - Kahlil Gibran

To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not? - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Soyons fermes, purs et fidèles ; au bout de nos peines, il y a la plus grande gloire du monde, celle des hommes qui n'ont pas cédé. [Let us be firm, pure and faithful; at the end of our sorrow, there is the greatest glory of the world, that of the men who did not give in.] - Charles de Gaulle

Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars. - John Steinbeck

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

Two men look out through the same bars; one sees the mud and one the stars. - Frederick Langbridge

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

Some girls say that they are by themselves because men today don’t have anything to offer. - Auliq Ice

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them.

I thought: hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made. - Lu Xun

Romans, never forget that government is your medium! Be this your art:-to practice men in habit of peace, generosity to the conquered, and firmness against aggressors. - Virgil

Insofar as men gain time, ease, independence, or liberty from women's domestic labors, they lack incentive to change. - Linda P. Rouse

Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time.

If men could regard the events of their lives with more open minds they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the thing they failed to obtain. - Andre Maurois

Light has come to the world and men loved darkness rather than light. - Sunday Adelaja

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break vases against the walls and the men drink too much and nobody finds the one but keep looking crawling in and out of beds. flesh covers the bone and the flesh searches for more than flesh. - Charles Bukowski

When the Rule of Law disappears, we are ruled by the whims of men. - Tiffany Madison

I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the people who write about this and made people think about it. I'm rather proud of the fact that I know several astronauts who became astronauts through reading my books. - Arthur C. Clarke

Whenever justice to ordinary men, widows, orphans, poor, disadvantaged and the general mass is delayed or denied, that leads to God’s frustration. At a time like that, God laments, WHERE IS A MAN - Sunday Adelaja

Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her. - G.K. Chesterton

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men. - James Beattie

Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anyway. - Lady Gaga

Women, churchgoers, and conservative were more likely than men, nonchurch goers, and liberals to disagree with the reductionist (neural) account of human life. - Andrew Ferguson

Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about these things. What (women) like is to be a man’s last romance. - Oscar Wilde

I never thought that someday men will also use an iPAD. - Santosh Kalwar

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character. - Henry Clay

Sometimes, somehow...I feel that ocean contains tears of mother earth,that mourns over terrible great sin done by men. - Toba Beta

Fear walks through the City, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare to speak. - Ayn Rand

Strange star-like object over Oslo right before Obama arrives. A gift of a golden medal given by a group of wise men... Nah. - Craig Ferguson

Even though we live in an unfair world, where some men and nations acquire their wealth in ways that are not always as straightforward as we would like it to be, yet in the midst of it all, it is not impossible to discover principles and secrets for the greatness of nations. - Sunday Adelaja

Perhaps in the pursuit of happiness, men and women take somewhat different paths. And, isn't it more than a little patronizing to suggest that most....women are not free? They're not self-determining human beings? - Christina Hoff Sommers

There are men who wants only the woman; such are tagged, 'real men', and there are ones who want only their bodies; such are tagged, 'fake men', and there are others who wants neither the woman, nor the body; such are tagged, 'GAY MEN - Michael Bassey Johnson

O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

Tis all a Checkerboard of Nights and Days Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates, and stays, And one by one back in the Closet lays. - Edward FitzGerald

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it - Alexandre Dumas

The only things that all men want is a woman that respects him and challenge his intelligence plus ambitions. - Unarine Ramaru

Confidence thrills men for it means you won’t be fidgety or excessively jealous when the man is in the midst of people especially those of opposite sex. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Hopelessness is the catalyst that inspires men to action and demand justice. - Fred Munoz

Jeg kommer netop nu fra et Selskab, hvor jeg var Sjælen; Vittigheder strømmede ud fra min Mund, alle loe, beundrede mig - men jeg gik, ja den Tankestreg bør være ligesaa lang som Jordbanens Radier ------------------------------- hen og ville skyde mig selv. - Søren Kierkegaard

A DEAD STATESMANI could not dig: I dared not rob:Therefore I lied to please the mob.Now all my lies are proved untrueAnd I must face the men I slew.What tale shall serve me here amongMine angry and defrauded young?from EPITAPHS OF THE WAR 1914-18 - Rudyard Kipling

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

Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate... - Terry Pratchett

But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it. - Henry David Thoreau

Deity indwelling men! That, I say is Christianity! - A.W. Tozer

Success has made failures of many men.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil. - Baruch Spinoza

When, indeed, men speak of Beauty, they mean, precisely, not a quality, as is supposed, but an effect - they refer, in short, just to that intense and pure elevation of soul - not of intellect, or of heart. - Edgar Allan Poe

The spirit of the gospel is optimistic; it trusts in God and looks on the bright side of things. The opposite or pessimistic spirit drags men down and away from God, looks on the dark side, murmurs, complains, and is slow to yield obedience. - Orson F. Whitney

Women deserve better than organizations bearing the names of racist rapists funding million dollar campaigns on subway trains. These wealthy middle aged white men tell us what to do with our bodies while they wage wars and kill other people's babies. - Sonya Renee Taylor

A million men can tell a woman she is beautiful, but the only time she will listen is when it's said by the man she loves. - Ziad K. Abdelnour

Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action. - Ramakrishna

I strike terror among men, I can't be bothered by what they think. - Tairrie B.

As men and women we need to occupy our space as Kings and Queens; move into our new reality. It only requires mindset. - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

I could feel a deep connection to Spirit in every glorious sunset and awesome wonder in every uncurling flower, but I couldn’t feel anything like that in the hollow words of men gone by. - Patricia Robin Woodruff, The Call of the Spectacled Owl

Life is all one piece. Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. For achievement without love is a cold and tight-lipped murderer of human happiness everywhere.

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

The rustic, the reader of novels, the pure ascetic: these three are truly happy men - Fernando Pessoa

The solution to women’s issues can only be achieved in a free and democratic society in which human energy is liberated, the energy of both women and men together. Our civilization is called human civilization and is not attributed only to men or women. - توكل كرمان

Men have more to lose than their chains . - Heidi Hartmann

As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust. - Charles W. Chesnutt

Many men would take the death-sentence without a whimper, to escape the life-sentence which fate carries in her other hand. - T.E. Lawrence

Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making. - John Milton

Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us. - Horace Mann

This was my first real lesson in politics… If you are cast on a desert island with only a screwdriver, hatchet, and the chisel to make a boat with, why, go and make the best one you can. It would be better if you had a saw, but you haven't, so with men. - Theodore Roosevelt

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow, and the triumphs that are aftermath of war. - Herbert Hoover

Most men cry better than they speak. You get more nurture out of them by pinching than addressing them. - Henry David Thoreau

Oh, there were many here who were justly shot by unjust men. - Arthur Miller

Justice suffers when men refuse to stand firm for what is right. - Sunday Adelaja

Schooling is a manufacturing process whereby the raw material called curious boys is turned into products called obedient men. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I'm impressed when men go the distance to show they give a damn. That says nothing about the woman and everything about the man. - Donna Lynn Hope

I am groping about through this American forest of prejudice and proscription, determined to find some form of civilization where all men will be accepted for what they are worth. - P.B.S. Pinchback

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come. - William Shakespeare

There's nothing more unattractive than a man who blames predestination for his own failures and a woman who blames men for her own vulnerability...Blame thyself - Sanhita Baruah

The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men. - Homer

Real men don't lift weights, they lift women. - Every male ballet dancer

Four men killed that day. The phrase sat up in Willie's head like a rat and made a nest for itself there - Sebastian Barry

Many a woman is in a relationship with or married to her man not because she loves him but only because she likes men like him. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Science have proof that women talk more than men, it's a fact. - Deyth Banger

There is a secret layer of humanity that lies just beneath the surface of man, a secret layer where our fears and insecurities hide, that when touched in this secret place men and woman are somehow liberated. - David Riggins

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections. - Archibald Alexander

Men are not so weak as you think. They can always leave anybody or any place without a pang - if they find another person or another place they like better. If they feel pricks and scruples it is merely because they cannot make up their mind that the change will be absolutely to their advantage.

in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity. - Abraham Lincoln

Hun trodde kjærligheten skulle gjøre henne godt, men det den gjør, er å servere smerte, slite og rive i henne, skyve henne ut i noe ukjent og noe farlig. - Tore Renberg

The fields were fruitful and starving men moved on the roads. The granaries were full and the children of the poor grew up rachitic. - John Steinbeck

Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

An honest government is the childish dream of the gullible men! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Oh, I simply can’t think. When I really want to depress myself, I think of all the brilliant men I know, married to their stupid wives. Enough to break your heart, it really is - Doris Lessing

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. - Henry David Thoreau

Women can fake an orgasm, but men can fake an entire relationship. - Sharon Stone

Men, in general, are a sort of scum, very different to anything of which you have an idea. - Charlotte Brontë

A bit of sniffles and men are more work than a brood of babies. - Nora Roberts

Women that can work a camera with ease often work men just as effortlessly for both require the same commitment to vanity and manipulation. - Tiffany Madison

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs. - Charles de Gaulle

Women are better at acting then men. Why? Because we have to be. If successfully convincing someone bigger than you are of something he doesn't want to know is a survival skill, this is how women have survived through the millennia. - Meryl Streep

The fact that most people do not understand and respect the very best things, such as Mozart's concertos, is what permits men like us to become famous. - Johannes Brahms

I don’t think women are made only for sex; they can turn men into wolves and make them fight till the death. - M.F. Moonzajer

If men could be bought like clothes at an outlet, only then would women always get what they bargained for. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story. - Daphne du Maurier

Justice suffers when men refuse to stand firm for what is right. If we don’t fight lawlessness, it prevails. If we don’t establish the truth in our nations, truth becomes foreign in the country. God says there is no man when there is nobody who stands for the truth. - Sunday Adelaja

It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught, as men take diseases, one from another; therefore, let all take heed as to the society in which they mingle, for in a little while they will be like it.

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue. - Sallust

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

For Christians above all men are forbidden to correct the stumblings of sinners by force. - John Chrysostom

Even God does not call every human a man. There are some who have not managed to attain the height of those who God refers to as men. They might be giving birth, eating and drinking, having fun, but yet, when they don’t live for what they were created for, they remain biomasses. - Sunday Adelaja

We don't like security rules and laws, but without them men will be animals, perhaps the most dangerous animals. - Amit Kalantri

A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment. - Walter Lippmann

Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs. - John Dos Passos

In the 21st century men’s tits have not just rivalled but replaced women’s as the touchstone of ‘sexy’ in mainstream pop culture, even when the audience for them is other men. - Mark Simpson

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other. - Sir Francis Bacon

Ten men shouting will control ten thousand who choose to remain silent. - Joseph J. Haeggquist

Fortunately for themselves and the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. Nearly all our disasters come of a few fools having the courage of their convictions. - Coventry Patmore

Men who fish at shallow waters can never have enough fish to feed their family talk less of a nation or a generation - Olojo Daniel Olatunji

The creator created women to control those wild, uncontrollable, intriguing men. - Debasish Mridha

Women and cats do as they damned well please, and men and dogs had best learn to live with it.

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites. - Edmund Burke

Patience is a complot of the Devil to immobilize the men! Mortal men should be impatient and impetuous; patience is only for the immortals! - Mehmet Murat ildan

This nation was founded by many men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened. - John F. Kennedy

The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the troublewith women, too." ["Existence" (1975)] - Joanna Russ

It is the very error of the moon: She comes more nearer earth than she was wont, and makes men mad. - William Shakespeare

Be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them. - William Shakespeare

So long as faith with freedom reigns And loyal hope survives, And gracious charity remains To leaven lowly lives; While there is one untrodden tract For intellect or will, And men are free to think and act, Life is worth living still.

There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth. - Susan B. Anthony

Peace can be a cover whereby evil men can perpetrate diabolical wrongs. - John Foster Dulles

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

Literature is always personal, always one man's vision of the world, one man's experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others. - W.B. Yeats

The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end. - Saint Jerome

Each morning in every family, men, women and children, if they have nothing better to do, tell each other their dreams.We are all at the mercy of the dream and we owe it to ourselves to submit its powers to the waking state. - La Révolution Surréaliste No. 1

I don't want to oppress men or demand to be given rights beyond what's held by them, but neither do I want men to oppress women. As God's creations, we should be held in equal esteem. - Kim Vogel Sawyer

The sole social evil is darkness; humanity is identity, for all men are made of the same clay. - Victor Hugo

I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced. - Anaïs Nin

The purest treasure mortal times afford is spotless reputation; that away, men are but gilded loam or painted clay. - William Shakespeare

Women are no longer victims. They have become leaders. They are at the forefront of the demonstrations. We will share a role in all aspects of life, side by side with men. - توكل كرمان

Pregnancy and childbirth are not only physical and medical experiences, after all. They are also social experiences that, in modern America, just as when abortion was criminalized in the 1870s, serve to restrict women's ability to participate in society on equal footing with men. - Katha Pollitt

For she could not really know how profound had become my mistrust of a world in which wars could still come into evil flower, and in which individuals could play with and brutally alter the myriad personal fates of whole nations of men and women. - Kenneth MacKenzie

Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. - Katharine Hepburn

O fortune, fortune! All men call thee fickle. - William Shakespeare

My dear Scipio and Laelius. Men, of course, who have no resources in themselves for securing a good and happy life find every age burdensome. But those who look for all happiness from within can never think anything bad which Nature makes inevitable. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers. - Orison Swett Marden

There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter. - Charles Caleb Colton

The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men

He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet. - Benjamin Disraeli

Suffering does not only insulate. It drops its victim in an ocean desert where he sees men as distant ships passing. I not only feel alone, but very far away from you all. - W.N.P. Barbellion

The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities. - Kahlil Gibran

Those who have long enjoyed such privleges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather incur peril than preservation; for whoso laboureth to be sincerely perfect and good shall necessarily perish, living among men that are generally evil. - Walter Raleigh

Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. - Samuel Jackson

Any silly ism or stupid book that considers men above women, must be shunned like a lowlife demon. For, all's one, barring none. - Fakeer Ishavardas

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women. - Groucho Marx

Men dressed in an embroidery of excuses are not fit to enter the colorful chamber of champions - Osho Samuel Adetunji

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. - Aristotle

If the Good Lord meant men to use percussion caps, he wouldn't have strung flint all over the ground. - Taylor Anderson

The masks. that men have as faces, the outward shells they hold up for others to see while their minds shift in hidden directions." Discard 2 - Lois Charles

The way to fight a woman is with your hat. Grab it and run.The guy who said that was a wise man. He knew what most men don't - Women are powerful creatures who should be handled with care, or they can become very, very dangerous. - Christina Dodd

Leopold, like most men of power and prestige, was not so much interested in listening to what others had to say as he was in having an audience. - Jeremy Robinson

For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived. - John F. Kennedy

The more men I kill, the more far away from home I feel -- Saving Private Ryan - Tom Hanks

There is nothing I like better than conversing with aged men. For I regard them as travelers who have gone a journey which I too may have to go, and of whom I ought to inquire whether the way is smooth and easy or rugged and difficult. Is life harder toward the end, or what report do you give it? - Plato

We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is the silent poor indeed. - Henry David Thoreau

All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing. - Edmund Burke

Man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends. - Albert Einstein

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. - Niccolò Machiavelli

Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed: for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess. - Rene Descartes

As we expand our knowledge of good books, we shrink the circle of men whose company we appreciate. - Ludwig Feuerbach

The faithfulness of the Lord is beyond the understanding of men. - Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live. - Socrates

I am happy that I can aid those admirable men, both living and dead, who by their pens or their tongues have aided the great cause of human liberty and universal happiness. - James Watson

Men owe us what they imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt. - Simone Weil

The hunger of hell is brought about by the deeds of men. - Hanimoz Obey

In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri. - Douglas Adams

O tyrant love, to what do you not drive the hearts of men. - Virgil

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs - François Truffaut

Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them. - Solon

It's their failure, my little Anna, not yours. Men who try to understand the world without the help of children are like men who try to bake bread without the help of yeast. - Gavriel Savit

Power tempts even the best of men to take liberties with the truth. - Joseph Sobran

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life. - Budha

Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing. - Andre Malraux

The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes that he who distrusts them.

Why should I fear death?If I am, then death is not.If Death is, then I am not.Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?Long time men lay oppressed with slavish fear.Religious tyranny did domineer.At length the mighty one of GreeceBegan to assent the liberty of man. - Epicurus

Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be. - Henri-Frederic Amiel

Many much-learned men have no intelligence. - Democritus

O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!

To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I do not believe in a fate that falls on all men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act. - G. K. Chesterton

Fear not of men because men must die. Mind over matter and soul before flesh. - Mos Def

Men read maps better than women because only men can understand the concept of an inch equaling a hundred miles. - Roseanne Barr

Women who focus on style over substance usually find themselves in a big fucking hole, with other men who want to fuck the hole. Oh so smooth, and none sophistacted. Because, you know, how sophisticated can hole-fucking really be - Emilie Autumn

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

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.

It is wrong to become absorbed in the divine law to such a degree as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men touch that unknown thing? - Victor Hugo

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. - Virginia Woolf

Men won't easily give up a system in which half the world's population works for next to nothing...[and recognizes that]precisely because that half works for so little, it may have no energy left to fight for anything else. - Marilyn Waring

Men of God are not just born, they are formed - John Paul Warren

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

Some men, under the pressure of incarceration, showed true mettle, while others revealed themselves as less than what they had appeared to be. - Nelson Mandela

Men lie the most,women tell the biggest lies. - Chris Rock

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

Don't let the Dogma of men to interfere with your Destiny - Bernard Kelvin Clive

Be jealous of fellow men, but of those men who are pious - your fellow men who are honest, sincere and loyal with their friends, family and teachings of their Creator. See everyone as equal and wish no harm on anyone - who are we to judge each other when we are being judged by our Creator. - Mizan Chaudhury

Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them. - Bill Maher

I’ve read Hamlet, I know men suffer. - Andrea Dworkin

I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing. - Gloria Steinem

Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place. - Billy Crystal

Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore. - Lady Gaga

men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success - John Calvin

They were the men and the women of the sand, of the wind, of the light, of the night. They appeared as in a dream, at the crest of a dune, as if they were born of the cloudless sky. - Jean-Marie G. Le Clézio

If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one. - Albert Camus

On a visit to the space program, President Kennedy asked me about the satellite. I told him that it would be more important than sending a man into space. Why? he asked. Because, I said, this satellite will send ideas into space, and ideas last longer than men. - Newton N. Minnow

Wise men speak only of what they know - J.R.R. Tolkien

In every age of transition men are never so firmly bound to one way of life as when they are about to abandon it. - Bernard Levin

Don’t go to Men about God. Go to God about Men. - Todd Stocker

Men who know are secure and Men who don’t know believe in luck. - L. Ron Hubbard

Nothing shocks me more in the men of religion and their flocks than their pretensions to be the only religious people.

Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation. - James Thurber

The Scripture vouches Solomon for the wisest of men; and his proverbs prove him so, The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame each of them by a single sentence, consisting of two or three words.

Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths. - Lois Wyse

So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity. - Andre Gide

Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives. - Abba Eban

Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again. - Pericles

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and co-operation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

It is not in the shallow physical imitation of men that women will assert first their equality and later their superiority, but in the awakening of the intellect of women. - Nikola Tesla

In a group of intelligent men expect only one to be wise. - Matshona Dhliwayo

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Once you've learned to study in a bathing suit on the grass with muscled men throwing frisbees over your head, you can accomplish almost anything. - Susan Rice

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do something, when all they need is one reason why they can. - Willis R. Whitney

Reality is a hallucination shared by most sane men. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men are more resilient than that, I think. Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope. - Brandon Sanderson

Histories don't make men; men make histories. - Ogwo David Emenike

Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. - Suzanne Necker

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

All middle men are bad. - Syd Barrett

TRUST, n. In American politics, a large corporation composed in greater part of thrifty working men, widows of small means, orphans in the care of guardians and the courts, with many similar malefactors and public enemies. - Ambrose Bierce

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

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries. - René Descartes

Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect women and children. None of their pain or achievement is registered in feminist rhetoric, which portrays men as oppressive and callous exploiters. - Camille Paglia

Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all. - Jane Austen

All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. William Shakespeare - Charmaine J. Forde

He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less. - C.S. Lewis

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

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.... While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.

The ideal conditionWould be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct;But since we are all likely to go astray,The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach. - Sophocles

I have read of the great wars of ages past, and men slaughtered by the tens of thousands. And we give but fleeting consideration to their deaths, for it is our nature to banish such thoughts. - Seth Grahame-Smith

As long as it’s an every man for himself kind of world, men will always be for themselves. - Mayor Bentley in 'Tilt - Ashley Chappell

If God had really intended men to fly, he'd make it easier to get to the airport. - George Winters

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason. - Hunter S. Thompson

If he's not real, you'll know. Men have never washed a rented car. - Saleem Sharma

Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud and one the stars. - Frederick Langbridge

Men have become the tools of their tools. Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. - Henry David Thoreau

Society shall never make progress unless it changes its basic objective of making things easier;instead our main objective should be to make men stronger!I say "men" as women have always had and shall continue to have all the strength needed!!-(Woods oration-2008) - Ashoka Jahnavi Prasad

Be wary of the praise of men; don't let it pump you up unnecessarily and don't let it paralyze your progress - Bernard Kelvin Clive

A wedding is a ceremony men fund with money they know they don’t have … to prove the love they think they have. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Men ask for a rainbow in the cloud; but I would ask more from Thee. I would be, in my cloud, myself a rainbow -- a minister to others' joy. My patience will be perfect when it can work in the vineyard - George Matheson

There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it. - Abraham Lincoln

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on." Walter Lippmann. - Ignatius Fernandez

With you, it's different. I can see the rest of my life before my eyes and that scares me a little. Men don't tame my wild heart but somehow I crossed your path and have never been the same since. - Nikki Rowe

Don't try to understand women.Women don't want to be understood,they just want to be loved.It is men who crave understanding. - Manoj Vaz

All men are Prophets or else God does not exist. - Jean-Paul Sartre

Alle bedro seg selv, og ingen ville innrømme det. Men da jeg visste dette og innrømmet at sikkerlig jeg også bedro meg selv, så var altså jeg iallfall ingen selvbedrager. - Sigurd Hoel

No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity. With equal, nay with greater reason, a body of men are unfit to be both judges and parties at the same time. - James Madison

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how? - Joan Baez

Teach men how to fish, but also teach them how to preserve fish. - Matshona Dhliwayo

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great. - Havelock Ellis

The general instrument by which God interferes in the affairs of men is by the weapon of LIGHT - Sunday Adelaja

Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect. - William Thayer Shedd

Morality is just a fiction used by the herd of inferior human beings to hold back the few superior men. - Friedrich Nietzsche

He [the poet] brings out the inner part of things and presents them to men in such a way that they cannot refuse but must accept it. But how the mere choice and rhythm of words should produce so magical an effect no one has yet been able to comprehend, and least of all the poets themselves. - Hilaire Belloc

All the buildings of justice will remain idle on the day when all men have high conscience! - Mehmet Murat ildan

There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune... ― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar - Lisa M. Collins

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

Relationship doesn’t remain, We resonate on different flames, I could cut you down again, If you were like all other men, If you were like all other men, I know that I could shut you down again - Amy Winehouse

Men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things. - Will Durant

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something. - Robert Heinlein

Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned....That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions. - Walter Lippmann

Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women. - Nancy Astor the Viscountess Astor

Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.

I love men. I also hate men; I wouldn't want to be in a world without them but I have to say, it's not a compliment to know a man wants to sleep with you. It's only a compliment when he will go to great lengths for you. - Donna Lynn Hope

that the grace of fable stirs the mind"...and..."that the perusal of excellent books is, as it were, to interview with the noblest men of past ages - René Descartes

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened. - Winston S. Churchill

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

You can't please all men, but you must desire to please God and love Him forever more. - Bamigboye Olurotimi

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness. - Francis Quarles

Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled enemy? - Sylvia Plath

Most often women want happiness and men want wilderness. - Debasish Mridha

The war was about vanity, he said. It was about old men who couldn't look in the mirror anymore and so they sent the young out to die. Was was a get-together of the vain. They wanted it simple--hate your enemy, know nothing of him. - Mccann Colum

Women may be better than men but not not even God can beat a Real Man - Swapnil Kumar

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken. - Benjamin Disraeli

I cannot stand the company of men. They flatter or they judge. I can stand neither of the two. - Albert Camus

Angry men have little to live for when their rage becomes ineffective. - Miguel Syjuco

That which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it which will waste it. The same corrupt dispositions which incline men to sinful ways of getting, will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending.

Societies where there are worthy men and women of God, not necessarily preachers or religious men, but men that know the ways of God, they stand up against the collapse of equity in their land - Sunday Adelaja

Many men, One CryOne Woman, a Pleasant Pride. - Goitsemang Mvula

A man who knows what other men know,know nothing for they all know the same - Alchemist

Love is the path that guides the men to the fields of infinite LIGHT! - Dave Zebian

One must be careful not to allow himself fall into the trap of hero worship; we are to take counsel from men, emulate their courage, and godliness, but we are not allowed to worship them. Heroes are men, and men make mistakes. - Paul Bamikole

And watch two men washing clothes,one makes dry clothes wet. The other makes wet clothes dry. they seem to be thwarting each other, but their work is a perfect harmony.Every holy person seems to have a different doctrine and practice, but there's really only one work. - Jalaluddin Rumi

End Of Men is a concoction of sex, outsider art, filmmaking and death including an Italian island - C. B. Murphy

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost. - William Lloyd Garrison

To be sure, the dog is loyal. But why, on that account, should we take him as an example? He is loyal to men, not to other dogs. - Karl Kraus

Most men will not swim before they are able to. - Hermann Hesse

Men are perplexed by the complexity of life;angels are perplexed by the folly of men. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Men want to be known and loved for who they are by women. - Suzette R. Hinton

The life of nations no less than that of men is lived largely in the imagination. - Enoch Powell

Some men are dogs; some dogs are women. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Men who know God and his heart, would not hide behind their pulpit when justice is been ridiculed in their society - Sunday Adelaja

You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older. - Lillian Gish

When women go wrong, men go right after them. - Mae West

Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men. - Gerald R. Ford

I know how men in exile feed on dreams - Aeschylus

The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it. - Ayn Rand

I know we are supposed to welcome anyone who vows to protect the kingdom, but really, anyone will do anything for a copper these days, and where pride and promises are saleable, expendable men come very cheap indeed. - Michelle Franklin

Merlin, do you mind?' It was the King who asked me, a man as old and wise as myself; a man who could see past his own crowding problems, and guess what it might men to me, to walk in dead air where once the world had been a god-filled garden. - Mary Stewart

For in all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd. - G. K. Chesterton

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

A virtuos woman is not moved by big names and flamboyance, but only men of profound wisdom and integrity move her. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. - Dion Boucicault

Borders are scratched across the hearts of men, by strangers with a calm, judicial pen, and when the borders bleed we watch with dread the lines of ink along the map turn red. - Marya Mannes

The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great man were made by his fortune, his enemies by himself, and revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude.

Many have exchanged the touch of God for the applause of men - John Paul Warren

The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who seek them. - Ayn Rand

Life is not a competition between men and woman. It is a collaboration. - David Alejandro Fearnhead

I invite all brats to throw their cookies at the baker’s head if they’re not sweet, winos to chuck their wine if it’s bad, the dying to shuck their souls when they croak, and men to throw their existence in God’s face when it’s bitter - Gustave Flaubert

Seek not to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek what they sought. - Matsuo Basho

We know that we can do what men can do, but we still don't know that men can do what women can do. That's absolutely crucial. We can't go on doing two jobs. - Gertrude Stein

...dusk is the time when men whisper of matters about which they remain silent in the full light of the sun. - Simon Raven

Men want the same thing from women and their underwear: support, comfort, and freedom. - Jerry Seinfeld

I think choosing between men and women is like choosing between cake and ice cream. You'd be daft not to try both when there are so many different flavors. - Björk

I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name. - William Morris

Men, you'll never be a good groom to your wife unless you're first a good bride to Jesus. - Timothy J. Keller

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

Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation...none was more alarming than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men. - Barbara Ehrenreich

As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love. - Pythagoras

Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be more moral, more just to their fellows, more law abiding, more discriminatingly patriotic and public spirited, it is not worth the trouble taken to furnish it. - William Howard Taft

I am a messenger who will bring back word from the men who are fighting (WWI) to those who want the war to go on forever. Feeble, inarticulate will be my message, but it will have a bitter truth and may it burn their lousy souls. - Paul Nash

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

To live in a world where men do not love, where they cheat and are callous, is to sink into a preoccupation with death, and to see the futility of anything except virtue. - John Howard Griffin

When men are scared of a woman, they always accuse her of being mannish. - Elizabeth Aston

I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others. - Amelia Earhart

Literature endures like the universal spirit,And its breath becomes a part of the vitals of all men. - Li Shang-yin

Don't shun oppositions. They are there to position you well. Opposition is the great valley between great men and they that give up because of the arduous journey they may have to take through the valley. Don't shun oppositions; Position yourself with oppositions! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

No good will remain unrewarded, if not by men, then by God. - Sunday Adelaja

Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education. - Bertrand Russell

In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue. - Cornelius Tacitus

Americans, indeed all free men, remember that inn the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men. - Neil Gaiman

The power of one hundred proud men cannot influence the world as much as of one humble servant of God. - Tom Krause

Favoring 'resolution' the way we do, it is hard for us men to write great love stories. Why?, because we want to tell too much. We aren’t satisfied unless at the end of the story the characters are lying there, panting. - Roman Payne

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life. - Joseph Addison

I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision. - Carl Sandburg

The real giants have been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas.

Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money. - Robert Jackson

The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind. - Mary Shelley

Birds don't need bridges to cross precipices and honourable men with honesty wings to cross precipices of slander. - Mehmet Murat ildan

...some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not. - W. Somerset Maugham

So many men so many questions. (Quot Homines Tot Sententiae) - Terence

When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to believe in progress. - G.K. Chesterton

Mostly, all book-told gods are as little as the little men who wrote them idiots into existence. - Fakeer Ishavardas

God creates men, but they choose each other. - Niccolo Machiavelli

The man Of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys:Power, like a desolating pestilence,Pollutes whate'er it touches, and obedience,Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth,Makes slaves of men, and, of the human frame,A mechanised automaton. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses. - Dorothy Parker

Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love - Sigmund Freud

Real Fathers are men of integrity & honour. Their word is their bond. - Fela Durotoye

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. - H.L. Mencken

Men are jerks. Women are psychotic. - Kilgore Trout

I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women, and women as men. It allows them a lot of freedom they don't have ordinarily. - Joyce Carol Oates

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

Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.

See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time. - Robin Williams

When men allow other people to ridicule, laugh and jeer at the truth, that cannot but bring sorrow to the heart of God - Sunday Adelaja

When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!’. - Epictetus

Women should not feel obliged towards any men for eternity. They earned this privilege by gathering berries, digging roots, picking wild rice, and chewing the skin to make it soft for 999 thousand years, while the men were having fun in the open chasing deer and fighting among themselves. - Vinko Vrbanic

Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love. - John Steinbeck

In framing a government, which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty is this: You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself. - James Madison

The valuable attributes of research men are conscious ignorance and active curiosity. - Willis R. Whitney

one idiot can shut 1000 wise men mouths, where as 1000 wise will fail to open the eyes of an idiot. - yssubramanyam

Evil brings men together. - Aristotle

Even great men bow before the Sun; it melts hubris into humility. - Dejan Stojanovic

Many men know the recipes of life, but only few go into the kitchen to cook it. Go make it happen! - Bernard Kelvin Clive

1052The power of one hundred proud men cannot influence the world as much as of one humble servant of God. - Tom Krause

Jag tror icke att en tänkare behöver söka ensamheten. Den ensamhet, han behöver, för han med sig, som snigeln sitt hus. Mitt i människovimlet följer den honom, ty den är ingen yttre omständighet, men en egenskap. - Hjalmar Söderberg

Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young. - Caesar Augustus

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should just live next door and just visit now and then. - Katharine Hepburn

Men in general are as much affected by what a thing appears to be as by what it is, indeed they are frequently influenced more by appearances than by reality. - Niccolò Machiavelli

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public. - Robert F. Kennedy

Our land is more valuable than your money. As long as the sun shines and the waters flow, this land will be here to give life to men and animals; therefore, we cannot sell this land. It was put here for us by the Great Spirit and we cannot sell it because it does not belong to us. - Anonymous

All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Some women had more penises in their mouth than men had kisses in theirs but it's a relationship that clarifies their worth. - Kent Lamarc

Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves. - Gene Fowler

Men need to be needed. When we are needed, we feel powerful. We thrive on helping a woman who needs us. - C.T.

There are three kinds of men. The ones that learn by readin’. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves. - Will Rogers

In books I meet the dead as if they were alive,in books I see what is yet to come...All things decay and pass with time...all fame would fall victim to oblivionif God had not given mortal men the book to aid them. - Richard de Bury

There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill-natured. - Marquess of Halifax

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions. - Aristotle

Wealth is not money. Wealth lies in men. This is where true power lies, the power we value. This is what has convinced us to direct all our resources to building the individual, and to using the wealth which God has provided us in the service of the nation. - Sheikh Zayed Al Nahyan

Man has made remarkable strides in conquering outer space, but how futile have been his efforts in conquering inner space- the space in our hearts and minds of men. - Thomas S. Monson

The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.

The greatest things in the world are those that neither men nor children can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there.

To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense. - Henry Ford

[From a New York Times biography from May 27, 2010 entitled Introduction to 's 'The Second Sex']Beauvoir herself was as devout an atheist as she had once been a Catholic, and she dismisses religions — even when they worship a goddess — as the inventions of men to perpetuate their dominion. - Simone de Beauvoir

We had been with the men, we had let them do what they wanted. But they would never know the parts of ourselves that we hid from them - they would never sense the lack or even know there was something more they should be looking for. - Emma Cline

Capable, generous men do not create victims, they nurture victims. - Julian Assange

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Nietzche started a nonsensical idea that men had once sought as good what we now call evil; if it were so, we could not talk of surpassing or even falling short of them.

Wondered why women are narrow-shouldered than men? Because they are needed to be cuddled. - Steven Chopade

There is a huge college about how men and women interact with each other after marriage. But people get married without learning. - Dada Bhagwan

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government is to live under the government of worse men. - Plato

Men who refuse to use condoms do not deserve to be fucked by anyone but other men who refuse to use condoms. - Inga Muscio

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place. - Charles Baudelaire

Why do all great men, live not long enough, to see their greatness? - Borgohain J.

The pen is mightier than the sword, for by the sword are mortal battles waged, but by the pen entire cultures swayed, eternal societies arrayed, and souls of men saved. - Ilyan Kei Lavanway

Men need usually full training while Women require often only a fine tuning for a scintillating acting in a real movie called life. - Anuj Somany

Men loves pleasure - Lailah Gifty Akita

Men are only as unfaithful as their options.

Judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Besides, men aren’t worth your time anyway, Letti. If we women spent as much time on ourselves as we do fretting over men, we’d be invincible! Work on yourself because at the end of the day, you’re the only person you can trust. - S.R. Crawford

When man comes into the presence of God he will find, whether he wishes it or not, that all those things which seemed to make him so different from the men of other times, or even from his earlier self, have fallen off. He is back where he always was, where every man always is. - C.S. Lewis