Quotation Explorer - 'Men'

Good men must be affectionate men. - Samuel Richardson

Jahan mein ehle-e-imaan soorat-e-khursheed jeetay hain,Idhar doobey, udhar nikley; udhar doobey, idhar nikleyIn this world, men of faith and self-confidence are like the sun,They go down on one side to come up on the other. - Allama Iqbal

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

For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind. Do they see it well clothed, neat, busineswise?

I'm furious about the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept quiet or it ruins the whole racket.

Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget. - Robert Jordan

I guess it’s true what they say," observed Jace. "There are no straight men in the trenches.""That’s atheists, jackass," said Simon furiously. "There are no atheists in the trenches. - Cassandra Clare

Let us go where skins are rainbowsEnhanced by every hue.Where genders are cloudsWeightless and formless through.Let us go where creeds are starsIlluminating our view.Where men and women are oneAnd the in-between are true.Let us go where I am free to loveFor I cannot unlove you. - Kamand Kojouri

If there are not mothers, where will men come from and who will feed them? - Debasish Mridha

Like all bitter men, Flint knew less than half the story and was more interested in unloading his own peppery feelings than in learning the truth. - John Cheever

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

It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne

PIGMY, n. One of a tribe of very small men found by ancient travelers in many parts of the world, but by modern in Central Africa only. The Pigmies are so called to distinguish them from the bulkier Caucasians -- who are Hogmies. - Ambrose Bierce

Nor need we be surprised that men so often embrace almost any doctrines, if they are proclaimed with a voice of absolute assurance.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on.

‎God remains silent so that men and women may speak, protest, and struggle. God remains silent so that people may really become people. When God is silent and men and women cry, God cries in solidarity with them but doesn't intervene. God waits for the shouts of protest. - Elsa Tamez

There was a time when Men functioned through the mind and Women from their heart, now its Men who feel more and women think more... - Ramana Pemmaraju

A religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing those conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic. - Clifford Geertz

A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, 'You are mad; you are not like us. - St. Anthony the Great

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

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

If men stopped making fools of themselves in front of women, I'm 80% sure the planet would cease to spin on its axis. - Rhys

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

It is said with truth that every building is constructed stone by stone, and the same may be said of knowledge, extracted and compiled by many learned men, each of whom builds upon the works of those who proceeded him. - George R.R. Martin

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 women had power, what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who can?...I mean, men give her [a queen] power. They let her use their power. But it isn't hers, is it? It isn't because she's a woman that she's powerful, but despite it. - Ursula K. Le Guin

The sense that everything is going wrong has existed in every era, and rightly so since men have found no greater pleasure than in inventing new ways to make each other miserable. - Emil Cioran

The stiletto is a feminine weapon that men just don't have. - Christian Louboutin

Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue. - Confucius

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

Men do not know what they do not know, and women should not tell them. - Amy Bloom

Your men will not take the hill if you're simply yelling commands from the safety of the rear. - Noel DeJesus

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

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

Men feel cherished when they are needed. Women feel cherished when they are loved.Indonesian version (Bahasa):Kaum pria jadi termotivasi dan bersemangat kala mereka merasa dibutuhkan.Kaum wanita jadi termotivasi dan bersemangat kala mereka merasa dicintai. - John Gray

Women worry about the things that men forget; Men worry about the things that women remember. - Ziad K. Abdelnour

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

That little man in black over there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him. - Sojourner Truth

There is a demand in these days for men who can make wrong appear right. - Terence

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

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

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. - George Bernard Shaw

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

A man who has built a world empire with only ideas and with love, not with swords and with archers, is the greatest amongst all the men! - Mehmet Murat ildan

...it is as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you. - Woodrow Wilson

Real Men can commit to 1 person. Only boys are "Players", pimps usually get lock up or die at the end of movies, & dogs catch fleas! - Surgeo Bell

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

Some women sleep their way to the top. Most men sleep their way to the bottom. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Love corrupts and absolute love corrupts absolutely. The unreasonable systems of men, that is. - Silvia Hartmann

In cities where peace and the arts flourish, men are more consumed by jealousy, worry, and anxiety than they are in cities under the blight of a besieging army. Private sorrows are more bitter than public suffering. - Voltaire

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

I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence. - Eugene V. Debs

The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women. - Booker T. Washington

The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses. - Thomas Henry Huxley

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

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

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

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

One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men haven't and don't. - George Bernard Shaw

Men and women who possesses drive record more increase than those who are passive - Sunday Adelaja

To get fruits from the tree branches, shake them with hands; to get fruits from men, shake them with clever ideas! - Mehmet Murat ildan

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

Lies are usually caused by undue fear of men. - Hasidic Saying

Men have become fools with their tools.

There is a strength in the union even of very sorry men. - Homer

I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men. - Mario Puzo

A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes. I believe that this would be a better world. - Sheryl Sandberg

Those who enjoy such freedoms as we enjoy, forget in time that men died to earn them.

Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor illis.(In this place I am a barbarian, because men do not understand me.) - Ovid

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

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

I retreat to my room and lock the door. Lying on my bed, my brain cyclones with thoughts of men and boys and boys and men. All making the wrong choices. - Shannon M. Parker

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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

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

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

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

Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time. - Edmund Burke

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

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards. - Bertrand Russell

Power...Born out of nature, Coveted by men; Wars rage on, And victors are crowned. But true power can never be lost or won. True power comes from within. - Emily Thorne

The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to be feared that to be loved. Whether they can confess this or not, men know that just is not true. - bell hooks

Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god. - Jean Rostand

On Valentine's Day, millions of men give millions of women flowers, cards and candy as a heartfelt expression of the emotion that also motivates men to observe anniversaries and birthdays: fear. - Dave Barry

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

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

Thorns may hurt you, men desert you, sunlight turn to fog;but you're never friendless ever, if you have a dog. - Douglas Malloch

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. - John Locke

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

They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad. - William Shakespeare

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

Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation from others, and thus affords them the possibility of dignity. They loathe liberty because it throws them back on their own abilities and resources, and thus confronts them with the possibility of insignificance. - Thomas Szasz

Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise. - Heraclitus

Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor. - Benjamin Franklin

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

Women are suspicious. Men are devious. Infinite loop. - Saleem Sharma

War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

To seek the praise of men as our motivation is to abandon truly great things, for more often than not truly great things elicit the ire of men far more than they garner their praises. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

The wizards were civilized men of considerable education and culture. When faced with being inadvertently marooned on a desert island they understood immediately that the first thing to do was place the blame - Terry Pratchett

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth. - Denis Diderot

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

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. - Martin Luther King Jr.

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

In every city you go, you will come across men of different kinds and you are the one to choose where your to belong. - Auliq Ice

Take all men as your brothers; all women as your sisters; and all children as your sons and daughters. - Matshona Dhliwayo

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

The world is ruled by cowards and cravens; brave men have put them there. - Damon Meredith

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle. - Phillips Brooks

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

The human mind naturally adapts itself to the position it occupies. The most gigantic intellect may be dwarfed by being cabin'd, cribbed and confined. It requires a great country and great circumstances to develop great men.

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

A woman should have not only equal rights but much more rights than men because she is our sacred and beloved mother. - Debasish Mridha

The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice - their choice. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

The element of craftsmanship in poetry is obscured by the fact that all men are taught to speak and most to read and write, while very few men are taught to draw or paint or write music. - W.H. Auden

Straight men need to be emasculated. I'm sorry. They all need to be slapped around. Women have been kept down for too long. Every straight guy should have a man's tongue in his mouth at least once. - Madonna

We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read. - Mark Twain

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

Men of honor, men of God in a healthy society, stand in defense of justice - Sunday Adelaja

Our first act as free men was to throw ourselves onto the provisions. thats all we thought about. No thought of revenge, or of parents. Only of bread. - Elie Wiesel

... From want of foresight men make changes which relishing well at first do not betray their hidden venom, as I have already observed respecting hectic fever. Nevertheless, the ruler is not truly wise who cannot discern evils before they develop themselves, and this is a faculty given to few. - Niccolò Machiavelli

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

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

Men promise freedom while establishing laws; God promises laws while establishing freedom. - Criss Jami

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

Men, I still think, ought to be weighed, not counted. Their worth ought to be the final estimate of their value. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station. - Joseph Addison

4. Real men are men who have devoted their lives to solving the problem of others and giving a helping hand to those they meet in their journey through life. These are the kind of men that history can never forget. - Dr. Bien Sufficient

You know men. We have delicate egos.""I wouldn't describe Jace's ego as delicate.""No, Jace is sort of the antiaircraft artillery tank of male egos," Simon admitted. - Cassandra Clare

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

You learn that the only way to get rock-star power as a girl is to be a groupie and bare your breasts and get chosen for the night. We learn that the only way to get anywhere is through men. And it's a lie. - Kathleen Hanna

The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Men can dig wells, but they can’t create water. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

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

Men in however high a station ought to fear the humble. - Phaedrus

No matter how tiny you look, you can lead huge men if you have what the huge men don't have. - Michael Bassey Johnson

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

Erotic Romance is a complete women thing.. by the women for the women.. Men don't even have an idea where women's imaginations can reach..! - Himmilicious

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

Are ALL men bad?Oh, all of them, my dear, all of them, without any exception. And they never grow any better. Men become old, but they never become good.. - Oscar Wilde

Evil draws men together. - Aristotle

...my dear boy, no woman is a genius. They are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals. - Oscar Wilde

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

Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving. - Albert Einstein

It is ironic that even today men are judged by how much they have and women by how they look while both should be judged by how they act. - Sabine Shah

There are 613,806,639 men in the world. Statistically, God has got you covered! So, never worry about one person not caring about you. Someone up to the challenge will always take his place. - Shannon L. Alder

I'm a man. Men cook outside. That outdoor grilling is a manly pursuit has long been beyond question. If this wasn't understood, you'd never get grown men to put on those aprons with pictures of dancing weenies on the front, and messages like 'Come 'n' Get It! - William Geist

Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened, but of what men believe happened. - Gerald White Johnson

If that which we have found is the corruption of solitude, then what can men wish for save corruption? If this is the great evil of being alone, than what is good and what is evil? - Ayn Rand

My father told me that it is only a mad man that keeps bushy hairs. I asked him, "what about the great men with bushy hairs?". He replied, "education had made them mad, so study to be wise and sane. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Because we are the only women who are mothers of men." Gorgo: when asked by a woman from Attica why Spartan women were the only women in the world who could rule men. - Gorgos

A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them. - Richard Le Gallienne

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

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

When ready to settle down: women are more interested in where the man is going; men are more interested in where the woman has been. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

They say women have no conscience about laws, don't they?" Mrs MacAvelly suggested. "Why should we?" answered her friend. "We don't make 'em– nor God– nor nature. Why on earth should we respect a set of silly rules made by some men one day and changed by some more the next? - Charlotte Perkins Gilman

For a significant manwoman, the one thought he values greatly, to the laughter and scorn of insignificant men, is a key to hidden treasure chambers; for those others, it is nothing but a piece of old iron. - Friedrich Nietzsche

The noblest of men deserves not the weakest of women.

The message of Christmas is a message of hope when all other such messages created by men can do nothing more than be hopeful. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

It is not an easy thing to be a woman and love with the whole heart: which men do not understand -- having many loves, and delighting in danger and war. - M.M. Kaye

Two men look out through the same bars. One sees the mud and the other the stars. - Frederick Longbridge

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

There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.

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

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it. - Theodore Roosevelt

The only soap of a dirty society is the clean men; only the clean can wash the grimy! - Mehmet Murat ildan

If there were no women then men would still be living in the jungle. - Debasish Mridha

Men always makes gods in their own image. - Xenophanes

Men, we don't need you in shining armor.We just need you a little bit brave, just a little bit brave. - Virginia Madsen

A country of free men is not free if they are owned by somebody else. - Joseph P. Sekula

Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less in human beings of whom they know nothing. - Voltaire

No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for. - Terry Pratchett

There be three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil, busy workshops, easy conveyance for men and goods from place to place. - Sir Francis Bacon

Some type of men I call a waste of make up. - Ilana Mack

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues. - Napoléon Bonaparte

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

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

It is only on the basis of the probable and the apparent that men bereft of a sixth sense are able to sit in judgment over other men. - Petrus Borel

The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive. - George Santayana

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

But history does repeat itself; that is the comedy and the crime of history. Men learn nothing. Times change. Scenes change. Names change. But passions are the same. - Carlos Fuentes

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

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

You'll be happy if you'll remember that men don't change much. Women do. Women adapt themselves, and if you think that means they lose their individuality, you're wrong. Show me a happy marriage and I'll show you a clever woman. - Elizabeth Cadell

And by the way, my belief is that if men were the ones getting pregnant, abortions would be easier to get than food poisoning in Moscow - Dennis Miller

Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now. - Henry David Thoreau

Men have two greatest fears: the first fear is the fear of being needed, and the second fear is the fear of not being needed. - C. JoyBell C.

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

Dictatorship, by whatever name, is founded on the doctrine that the individual amounts to nothing; that the State is the only one that counts; and that men and women and children were put on earth solely for the purpose of serving the state. - Harry Truman

Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth! - Henry David Thoreau

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom;No wisdom but in submission to the gods.Big words are always punished,And proud men in old age learn to be wise. - Sophocles

love is what moves the world, I've always thought...it is the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always seems to want to pull them down...bring them low...and make them crawl... - Stephen King

Women marry men hoping they will change. They don't. Men marry women hoping they won't change. They do. - Bettin Arndt

Du er ogsaa Kunstnersjæl, Skønaand, en Smagens Mand, et Artistgemyt,en Bohême, en Satan. Men du er ogsaa Poet. Fan ved hva du er altsammen, du er meget spredt. - Knut Hamsun

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

Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been. - Jim Bishop

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

I find that I spend a tremendous amount of time chasing the praises of men rather than sitting with the praises of God. The former is something I attempt to catch, the latter catches me. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Wars bring the best out of men, it can b good for some, bad for others but it is the best that man can offer - Nauman Khan

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

To march over dead man, to hear without concern the groans of the wounded, I say few men can stand such scenes unless steeled by habit or fortified by military pride. - Nathanael Greene

It was about how men walk into a forest afraid because they know all the things that can happen. They might wake the noisy birds and cause chaos. But kids come into the trees and see the magic. They climb them and see stars that the men were too afraid to see. - Laura Anderson Kurk

When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another — except brute, physical force. - Ayn Rand

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

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

Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance. - Theodore Roosevelt

Between Monday and Saturday men make an audience. On Sunday, they make a congregation. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

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

Private property and free trade stand on exactly the same footing, both being essential and indivisible parts of liberty, both depending upon rights, which no body of men, whether called governments or anything else, can justly take from the individual. - Auberon Herbert

As with most liberal sexual ideas, what makes the world a better place for men invariably makes it a duller and more dangerous place for women. - Julie Burchill

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

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. - Henry David Thoreau

...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

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. - Christopher Morley

The women are always more treacherous than the men because even the main reason behind a cheating man is also often a woman only. - Anuj Somany

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

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

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

My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em. - Loretta Lynn

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

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

Women who buy perfume and flowers for themselves because their men won't do it are called ``self basting.''

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

Many ‘experts’ don’t possess the imagination or vision or any of the logistical expertise required to achieve malaria eradication. Their opinions shouldn’t be allowed to hold back men and women who do possess these qualities from achieving the ‘impossible. - T.K. Naliaka

[Snobbishness] is the desire for what divides men and the inability to value what unites them. - Joseph Epstein

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change. - Confucius

Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion. - Ovid

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

Few great men could pass personnel. - Paul Goodman

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

One of the reasons for the failure of feminism to dislodge deeply held perceptions of male and female behavior was its insistence that women were victims, and men powerful patriarchs, which made a travesty of ordinary people's experience of the mutual interdependence of men and women. - Rosalind Coward

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. - Matthew Arnold

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.

Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs. - Edgar Watson Howe

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

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

The most self confident aces began to wonder when their turn would come.. Faced by the empty chairs of men you had laughed and joked with at lunch. And, miraculously, you were still there. Until tomorrow.. - Cecil Lewis

Prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, overpowering reason, making strong men weak and weak men weaker. God give us the large hearted charity which "bearth all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things," which "thinks no evil."

True love is jealousy in disguise: A man cannot restrict his lover from going to the club because he hates her, he actually hates the men who would come around and touch her. - Michael Bassey Johnson

The University of Life is greater than the universities of men. - Matshona Dhliwayo

There are many men but rare fathers - Bernard Kelvin Clive

Little boys run in gangs, grown men organise teams. - Habeeb Akande

I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any. - Ann Richards

If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of quotations, looking for women's names. - Elaine Gill

A great idea can change the world; but to change the universe, men need even much greater ideas! - Mehmet Murat ildan

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

War doesn't have heroes, it only has the men who lost so many things in their life that they just keep going and do the most unthinkable things, just because they don't care anymore. - Wouter Van Gastel

She just came in, pounced around this thing with me for a few years enjoyed herself, gave it a sort of beautiful quality and left. Excited a few men in the meantime.

The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly. - William Shakespeare

great men take and overtake risk tactically - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

At their core, women fear that men will kill them. At their core, men fear that women will laugh at them. - Gavin de Becker

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

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

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

What men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm. - Henry David Thoreau

Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. - William Arthur Ward

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

You should not honor men more than truth. - Plato

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

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

Liberty means refusing to allow some men to use the state to compel other men to serve their interests or opinion. - Auberon Herbert

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

It is said that if Noah's ark had had to be built by a company; they would not have laid the keel yet; and it may be so. What is many men's business is nobody's business. The greatest things are accomplished by individual men. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Men are not potatoes! - Robert A. Heinlein

(regarding Charles Lee) This eccentric and notably slovenly man was always trailed by his beloved dogs. "When I can be convinced that men are as worthy objects as dogs", he once explained, "I shall transfer my benevolence to them. - Ron Chernow

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

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

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty. - Thomas Jefferson

When a woman miscarries, the experience of the father is often forgotten. But men grieve pregnancy loss too... - Various

Don't you think, that there are very few men who know, without raising their voice or changing their tone, to say...what has to be said? - Colette

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

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

A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit. - Greek proverb

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

The spirits of the brain are directly connected to the testicles. This is why men who weary their imagination in books are less suitable for procreative functions... - Louis de la Forge

Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not. - George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Pride of opinion has been responsible for the downfall of more men on Wall Street than any other factor. - Charles Henry Dow

Whence but from heaven, could men unskilled in arts,In several ages born, in several parts,Weave such agreeing truths? Or how, or why, Should all conspire to cheat us with a lie? - John Dryden

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 like that — when they know they won’t be found out — they will do anything. - Michelle Paver

Conceit is God's gift to little men. - Bruce Barton

Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex. - Barbara Cartland

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

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

Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman. - Ninon de l'Enclos

I have seen flowers come in stony places And kind things done by men with ugly faces And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races, So I trust too. - John Masefield

The fact is very few men live harmoniously, while most of us survive miraculously! - Ramana Pemmaraju

Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life: in a certain sense, they are to make of it a work of art, a masterpiece. - Pope John Paul II

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. - Edmund Burke

This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come. - Frederick William Robertson

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

America is not a mere body of traders; it is a body of free men. Our greatness-built upon freedom-is moral, not material. we have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man. - Woodrow Wilson

Doctrine once sown strikes deep its root, and respect for antiquity influences all men. - William Harvey

I tell you the truth, if you will leave your life based on the whims and caprices of men, you shall be like the corn in popcorn machine - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five- year-old men more.

No man who know aught can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free. - John Milton

Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes. - Titus Livius

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

Tragically though, it is that same life that is often least treasured or valued by men who possess it. - Sunday Adelaja

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

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin, more even than death. - Bertrand Russell

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure. - Helen Keller

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

Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. - Thomas Jefferson

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

Dawn is ever the hope of men. - J.R.R. Tolkien

Humility consists in not esteeming ourselves above other men, and in not seeking to be esteemed above them. - Francis de Sales

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

Toward the accomplishment of an aim, which in wantonness of atrocity would seem to partake of the insane, he will direct a cool judgement, sagacious and sound. These men are madmen, and of the most dangerous sort. - Herman Melville

Education is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free men recognize, and the only ruler that free men require. - Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar

Complacency delivered us into the hands of evil greedy men like Cheney. - Sonia Rumzi

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

Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet. - Horace

Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws. - Walter Savage Landor

I've heard it said that God made all men, but Samuel Colt made all men equal.We'd see what Mr. Colt could do for a woman. - Cherie Priest

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

In every bit of honest writing in the world, there is a base theme. 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 nearly always leads to love. - John Steinbeck

The greatest investment one can ever make is the investment into humanity, for an achievement based on positive influence into people's life can stand the test of time, survive through the mortality of men and resound endlessly through posterity - Uzoma Ezeson

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

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

God only gives men power to make wealth, meaning God does not give wealth, he gives the power to work for it. (Deut. 8:18) - Sunday Adelaja

The art of leading, in operations large or small, is the art of dealing with humanity, of working diligently on behalf of men, of being sympathetic with them, but equally, of insisting that they make a square facing toward their own problems.

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

But it's natural for men to compete against each other. We've been doing it since the cave days. Why else do we have wars? Wars are competition, no matter what the politicians call them. - Iris Johansen

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike. - Alexander Hamilton

They do not fear the men beneath the tree;They pace in sleek chivalric certainty. - Adrienne Rich

Treat all men alike. Give them all the same laws. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. - Chief Joseph

There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. - Ayn Rand

Great men are not always idiots - Karen Elizabeth Gordon

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

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

Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers. - Franz Kafka

What moves men of genius, or rather, what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is not enough. - Edouard Delacroix

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

Invisible God might have apprehension at the time of world creation that if HE does not show deception often through women, then men may mistake HIS made hell on earth as heaven. - Anuj Somany

There's the good girl leading a charmed life who secretly covets to be the rare and elusive femme fatale and the femme fatale who yearns to be good and then there is their nemesis - men who dream and desire both. - Donna Lynn Hope

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

War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Feminism is not a dirty word. It does not mean you hate men, it does not mean you hate girls that have nice legs and a tan, and it does not mean you are a bitch or a dyke. It means you believe in equality. - Kate Nash

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

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

The graveyards are full of indispensable men. - Charles de Gaulle

That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true... - Thomas Paine

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

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

Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work ... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work. - Barbra Streisand

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

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal. - Aristotle

There are no souls in the world that are so fearful to judge others as those that do most judge themselves, nor so careful to make a righteous judgment of men or things as those that are most careful to judge themselves. - Thomas Brooks

A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases. - Homer

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

War is the game played by old men with the lives of the young - Wilbur Smith

Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side. - Gautama Buddha

If you take all the experience and judgment of men over fifty out of the world, there wouldn't be enough left to run it. - Henry Ford

When evil men plot, good men must plan. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Men had no purpose on earth whereas women were gods walking unrecognized among them. - Kate Atkinson

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

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

Great men know how to control two things; their women and money. - Habeeb Akande

On one issue, at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women. - H.L. Mencken

My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me. Men have tried to breach it before, but I've learned to defend it vigorously, for I am only safe with my innermost thoughts. - Christopher Paolini

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. - B. F. Skinner

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

Some men are born posthumously. - Friedrich Nietzsche

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. - Dr. Frederick Douglass 18171895

Evil triumphs when good men refuse to call it evil - Dean Cavanagh

Here is a great body of our Jewish citizens from whom have sprung men of genius in every walk of our varied life; men who have conceived of its ideals with singular clearness; and led enterprises with sprit & sagacity... They are not Jews in America, they are American citizens. - Woodrow Wilson

Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion. - Thomas Jefferson

men do not suspect faults which they do not commit - Samuel Johnson

Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be.

Women with pasts interest men... they hope history will repeat itself. - Mae West

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

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile. - Sir Wilfred Grenfell

Men trust God by risking rejection. Women trust God by waiting. - Carolyn McCulley

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

I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself. - Terence

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

Assassination is almost always unthinkable to moral, thinking men until after a holocaust has come and gone. - Caitlín R. Kiernan

Wolves fail to hide their integrity just like the way men fail to hide their own animality. - Munia Khan

Imperialism is a system of exploitation that occurs not only in the brutal form of those who come with guns to conquer territory. Imperialism often occurs in more subtle forms, a loan, food aid, blackmail . We are fighting this system that allows a handful of men on Earth to rule all of humanity. - Thomas Sankara

As more women lean in to their careers, more men need to lean in to their families. We need to encourage men to be more ambitious in their homes. - Sheryl Sandberg

All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking. - C. H. Parkhurst

Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end. - Joseph Conrad

The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief. - Sigmund Freud

Great nations leave great ruins, great men leave great memories - Habyarimana Bangambiki

Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women. - Gordon B. Hinckley

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it. - Thomas Paine

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan. - Martin Luther King Jr.

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

for that men have been good does not suffice for them to continue being good, unless one cares about it to the end. - Xenphon Ephesius

...some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn. - Michael Caine

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men. - Jean Rostand

Most religions do not make men better, only warier.

Pretense has created so many good men. - Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel

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

Life entertains humble men by giving men with below average looks (intellect, knowledge, etc.) an above average self-esteem. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

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

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

Pornography robs sex of its mystery. That's why men like it. - Marty Rubin

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door. - Henry Ward Beecher

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

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

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

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

Some men like shiny new toys. Others like the priceless antique. - Donna Lynn Hope

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

It may be a man's world, but men are easily controlled by women. - Ashly Lorenzana

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

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

I have loved many men, but only one in real life. All of the other men who have ever stolen my heart in more than friendship, are in books. - Alyse M. Gardner

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.

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

One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.

All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them. - Charles M. Schwab

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

A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth. - Christopher Wren

From what I could see, men or women, children or adults, young or aged, rich or poor, war was making everyone equal. - Alephonsion Deng

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

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

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.

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

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

What luck for rulers that men do not think. - Adolf Hitler

Men with Honor are not killed by swords, they die of Shame. - Alok Jagawat

L'aube exalteé ainsi qu'un peuple de colombes, et j'ai vu quelquefois ce que l'homme a cru voir!(And dawn, exalted like a host of doves - and then I've seen what men believe they've seen!) - Arthur Rimbaud

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

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

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

I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them. - Mae West

Men drive off bridges and drink too much because of women like you. - Janet Evanovich

We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. - US Declaration of Independence

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

It may seem odd to say that the men who made the myths disliked the irrational and had a love for facts; but it is true, no matter how wildly fantastic some of the stories are... - Edith Hamilton

We require from buildings, as from men, two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it; which last is itself another form of duty. - John Ruskin

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

If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and 'with malice toward none and charity for all' go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic and social democracy a practical reality, we shall not fail. - Henry A. Wallace

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

Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making. - Fred Allen

The Highest Reward for men and women 's devotion and dedication to excellence is not what one gets from it but what one he or she becomes through it. - Bill Britt

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

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

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

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

There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions.

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

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

Big men become big by doing what they didn't want to do when they didn't want to do it.

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

Once they were men. Now they are land crabs.

If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice. - Heraclitus

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

Great treasures bring out great greed in the hearts of men and great greed has been the downfall of many nations. - from "Opoponax Dreams - Genieve Dawkins

heavily tattooed women can be said to control and subvert the ever-present 'male gaze' by forcing men (and women) to look at their bodies in a manner that exerts control. - Margo Demello

Men are only as unfaithful as their options.

All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men. - Thomas Carlyle

Men and women are not limited by the place of their birth, not by color of their skin, but by the size of their hope. - John Johnson

Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never really care for anything else thereafter. - Ernest Hemingway

Men still think women will like who they are, not realizing: it's what they can do for a woman that sets the man apart. - Solange nicole

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

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

i always like to touch base with men who i can relate to. - S.R. Cherry

A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.

Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves. - Mahatma Gandhi

Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them. - Margaret Atwood

Now domestication and sophistication of men by women are the norm and acceptable by society, but they are terrible for manhood. - Debasish Mridha

Only exceptionally rational men can afford to be absurd. - Allan Goldfein

I am made all things to all men. - Bible

Women and men have to fight together to change society - and both will benefit... Partnership, not dependence, is the real romance in marriage. - Muriel Fox

It is honor that makes commerce possible, dear brother. And the law courts, when men lack it. - Edward Cline

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence. - Edgar Allan Poe

Men. You can't live with them, you can't... no. That's about it. - Regina King

When up they gat an' shook their lugs, Rejoic'd they werena MEN but DOGS. - Robert Burns

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

Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy. - Edward Chapin

A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men. - Roald Dahl

There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation. - Simone de Beauvoir

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones. - William Shakespeare

Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice; yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage. - Agesilaus the Second

Some men just want to watch the world burn. - Christopher Nolan The Dark Knight

If the world were a logical place, men would ride sidesaddle. - Rita Mae Brown

These opportunities, then, gave these men the chance they needed, and their great abilities made them recognize it. - Niccolò Machiavelli

If Jesus himself, or Mohammed, or Buddha spoke to me personally and said that women are inferior to men, I would still reject that as false dogma because I know with every ounce of my being that this is not true. - Alice Bag

Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult. - Samuel Johnson

When it comes to men, I appreciate them, don’t bash them and never love them. - Donna Lynn Hope

Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read. - Voltaire

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

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love. - W. Somerset Maugham

Men have such a good opinion of themselves, of their mental superiority and intellectual depth; they believe themselves so skilled in discerning the true from the false, the path of safety from those of error, that they should be forbidden as much as possible the perusal of philosophic writings. - أبو حامد الغزالي

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. - Herbert Spencer

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

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

Successful men are defined by thier actions; Unsuccessful men are defined by actions not taken.

War is young men dying and old men talking - Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody. - Thomas Paine

What cruel creatures men are. Our bodies tell us to love so many, but there's room in our hearts for so few. - Brian K. Vaughan

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

I have a friend who likes to date younger women because their stories are shorter. Old men like us, our stories are longer. - Jerry N. Uelsmann

Is there any conflict between science and religion? There is no conflict in the mind of God, but often there is conflict in the minds of men. - Henry B. Eyring

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

How do we still believe that human nature is not evil when 60 years old men rape 3 years innocent girls? - M.F. Moonzajer

There is sorrow enough in the natural wayFrom men and woman to fill our day;But when we are certain of sorrow in store,Why do we always arrange for more?Brothers & Sisters, I bid you bewareOf giving your heart to a dog to tear. - Rudyard Kipling

Men bore me;Women abhor me;Children floor me;Society stinks - J.D. Salinger

The only way we can touch the heart of men is to overlook an offense. - Lailah Gifty Akita

They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is. - Sir Thomas More

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

Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl.

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 men the American public admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth. - H. L. Mencken

It is not possible to conceive gods inhabiting a land which is made hideous by the smoke and din of mill chimneys and factories and whose roadways are traversed by rushing engines dragging numerous cars crowded with men mostly who know not what they are after. - Mahatma Gandhi

I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows. - E.M. Forster

Success ... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit. - Conrad Hilton

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

Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country? - George Washington

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

None of the shades of blue can paint the character of few men. - Pavitraa Parthasarathy

History shapes the lives of all men, women and children ... sometimes unraveling humanity into an undesired mess. - Lynda I Fisher

CNN found that Hillary Clinton is the most admired woman in America. Women admire her because she's strong and successful. Men admire her because she allows her husband to cheat and get away with it. - Jay Leno

When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. - Elayne Boosler

Most men claim to desire driven, independent and confident women. Yet when confronted with such a creature reverence often evolves into resent. For just like women, men need to be needed. - Tiffany Madison

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

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

There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them. - Clare Booth Luce

Real men don't dance to other people's tune, instead, they play for others to dance. - Michael Bassey Johnson

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

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

The size of the handkerchief itself shows who weeps more between the men and the women, but the men don't show their big tears while the women make a big show off. - Anuj Somany

Boys are raw materials that women manufacture into products called men. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad. - Thomas Paine

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

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

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

Since the dawn of time, women have been attracted to mates with strong survival skills—like intelligence and physical prowess—because men with these qualities are more likely to bring home dinner at the end of the day. He stuck his thumbs in the air and grinned. Dinner equals survival, team. - Becca Fitzpatrick

For the "We" must never be spoken, save by one's choice and as a second thought. This word must never be placed first within a man's soul, else it becomes a monster, the root of all evils on earth, the root of man's torture by men, and an unspeakable lie. - Ayn Rand

Wealth and power and life, all that men build up and guard with such effort, is only worth anything through the joy with which it can all be cast away. - Leo Tolstoy

Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future. - Bourke Cockran

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

Anyone who goes through life trusting people without making sure they are worthy of trust is a fool. Yet there are people who may be trusted, men as well as women. There are are as many difference in their natures as there are flowers in these meadows. - Elizabeth Aston

Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.

To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent. - Robert Copeland

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

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

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

Everything is clear, except the words men use. - Marty Rubin

He was gorgeous. Every feature on his face perfect, dark and inviting. The boy could be his own photo shoot." Kasey Reese - Men of the Cave - Marisette Burgess

Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions. - Primo Levi

Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help. - Homer

Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist. - Edgar Watson Howe

Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good; and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws. - Pope Pius XI

Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that he nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all. - John Maynard Keynes

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

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

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

Children are gentle and heed. Adults are tough and seize. Wise men and women have the strength and flexibility to do what's right. - Stefan Emunds

I like simple men and complicated women. - Don DeLillo

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

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

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

That is the greatest fallacy, the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful. - Ernest Hemingway

I know it's the belief that women should never show daring in front of men. Never be bold when men hesitate. I know flight is not the answer; even to save our lives. - Empress Theodora

Let me have men about me that are fat, Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights: Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous. - William Shakespeare

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

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

Women have traditionally took secondary roles to men. I want to be the boss not the secretary. - Bianca Frazier

Men have to have friends even in hell. - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Fools admire, but men of sense approve. - Alexander Pope

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

A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity. - George Santayana

He is not a great man. None of us are great men. We are just caught in the wave of history. - Dave Malloy

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

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

Men are mere mortals but their quest for knowledge leads them to the brink of immortality.Excerpt from novel You Can't Escape Love by - Grace Willows

...the holy men sat in an atmospherereeking of antiquity, so thick with thedust of ages that you can't see through it--nor can they. - Gertrude Bell

Any system which allows men to choose their own future will end by choosing safety and mediocrity, and in such a Reality the stars are out of reach. - Isaac Asimov

Love is the luckiest tenant in the world, living in the hearts of men and women rent free. - Matshona Dhliwayo

When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment. - Warren Farrell

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

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