If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.
Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.
The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.
We are living in a world of fear. The life of man today is corroded and made bitter by fear: fear of the future, fear of the hydrogen bomb, fear of ideologies. Perhaps this fear is a greater danger than the danger itself because it is fear, which drives men to act thoughtlessly, to act dangerously.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
To me, it’s not the end of the world if I end up not being with someone. I love romance. I love sex. I love men’s company, but I don’t feel I have to be married. Men are a wonderful part of life, like chocolate. But my life goes on whether they’re there or not.
Men have become the tools of their tools.
Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.
The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.
Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.
It takes two men to make one brother.
As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.
History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they’ve answered the call in bravery and sacrifice.
Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself, ‘What makes me come alive?’ Because what the world – a wife, a child – needs is men who have come alive.
Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman’s attention.
Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.
From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.
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.
Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
The straight line belongs to men, the curved one to God.
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, as intelligent Mr. Toad.
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line: the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea.
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least, for their minds are occupied with their ideas and the perfection of their conceptions, to which they afterwards give form.
It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
The practice of charity will bind us – will bind all men in one great brotherhood.
Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.
There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.
My mother was a dominant force in our family. And I always saw her as the leader. And that was great for me as a young woman, because I never saw that women had to be dominated by men.
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.
One of the things I’ve told men over and over and over and over is if you’re being rejected by all the women that you approach, it’s not the women!
Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.
Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.
Some men do think I’m a psycho bunny-boiler.
It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.
Most men are within a finger’s breadth of being mad.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
It’s true that, in Iran, women have half of the rights men do. And yet 66 per cent of students are women.
For Jesus, there are no countries to be conquered, no ideologies to be imposed, no people to be dominated. There are only children, women and men to be loved.
All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.
Men do not fail; they give up trying.
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.
To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts – such is the duty of the artist.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
