As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.
I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.
For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can.
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.
Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.
Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity.
All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.
Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror – and America is honored to be their friend.
Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; – that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.
To attract men, I wear a perfume called ‘New Car Interior.’
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?
During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.
Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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.
Great hopes make great men.
Admiration of great men, living or dead, naturally evokes imitation of them in a greater or less degree.
There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.
I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.
Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.
All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.
Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.
Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.
All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.
Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.
All the women want to be with me, all the men want to be like me.
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.
Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.
The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.
If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
Revenge by young men is considered gain, even at the cost of their own lives, but old men who stay at home in times of war, and mothers who have sons to lose, know better.
Temperance is essential, if the services of men and women are to be employed to the best and most useful effect according, to the physical capacity and ability of each. Nothing less will assure a total effort.
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
We lived many lives in those whirling campaigns, never sparing ourselves; yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to re-make in the likeness of the former world they knew.
I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.
There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.
We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
Men lie the most. Men lie all the time.
I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don’t see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.
He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.
Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.
Numbers don’t lie. Women lie, men lie, but numbers don’t lie.
It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.
Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
Young men, trust God, and make the future bright with blessing. Old men, trust God, and magnify him for all the mercies of the past.
Pride, envy, avarice – these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
It doesn’t take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.
