Men Quotes

My officers and men understood wishes so well that this movement was executed under fire, the right wing keeping up fire, without giving the enemy any occasion to seize or even to suspect their advantage.

Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.

At that moment of realization I knew that I had been blind because I had wished not to see; it was only then that I realised, at last, that all these dead men, French and Germans, were brothers, and I was the brother of them all.

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

I wish all men were like dogs.

There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.

Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.

The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.

Men like me, who merely wish to establish political freedom, will in such circumstances lose all their influence, and others will get influence who may become dangerous to all established interests whatsoever.

Give to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of truth.

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions.

Michael Buble is seriously my favorite entertainer. Have you ever seen the guy in concert? He's hilarious. Women love him. Guys want to meet him. He has everything that I wish I could do onstage. And I'm guessin' he's a good-lookin' guy - although he's not one of 'People' magazine's sexiest men.

I am willing to serve my country, but do not wish to sacrifice the brave men under my command.

He who has no wish to be happier is the happiest of men.

Lots of small business men have been contacting me to say they wish they had the nerve to say what I said.

It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

There's still not as many women in music as men, and I don't really know why. I don't have the answers. I do wish there were more women that played music.

At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution.

If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology.

Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect.

The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.

Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.

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

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?