Men Quotes

Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.

Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him.

Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.

There's a new medical crisis. Doctors are reporting that many men are having allergic reactions to latex condoms. They say they cause severe swelling. So what's the problem?

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.

Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

Men blaspheme what they do not know.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

The production of children, the nurture of those born, and the daily life of men, of these matters woman is visibly the cause.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.