Men Quotes

But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.

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

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

A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.

Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.

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

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

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.

Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own.

Don't rely on men but don't shun them either.

I would quite like to create a fragrance for men though - something that I like.

Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?

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

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

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.

Without gay men, I am nothing.

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

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

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

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

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

Because wherever I am today, I still owe it to God and I owe it to two men - the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X and of course, two very special women, my mother and my wife.

But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.

There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.

There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.