Men Quotes

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

Men have become the tools of their tools.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Men are only as loyal as their options.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

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

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

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

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

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

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

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

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

Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

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

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