Men Quotes

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

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

The most positive men are the most credulous.

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

I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.

Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.

Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.

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

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

Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.

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

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.

To attract men, I wear a perfume called "New Car Interior."

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

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

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

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

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

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

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

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

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