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"A woman simply is, but a man must become."
Camille Paglia"Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth."
Chuck Norris"Neutral men are the devil's allies."
Edwin Hubbel Chapin"The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife."
Cyril Connolly"The truth is found when men are free to pursue it."
Franklin D. Roosevelt"'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong."
Ella Wheeler Wilcox"Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld"Men do not fail; they give up trying."
Elihu Root"Stronger by weakness, wiser men become."
Edmund Waller"Men may die, but the fabrics of free institutions remains unshaken."
Chester A. Arthur"Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices."
Knute Rockne"Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one."
Richard Whately"When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for."
Benjamin Haydon"Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them."
Charles Baudelaire"Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts."
Max Lerner"Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries."
Cher"Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains."
Sam Walter Foss"Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison."
Tim Allen"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."
Virginia Woolf"A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could."
Charles Erwin Wilson"Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest."
Laurence Sterne"Men are born to succeed, not to fail."
Henry David Thoreau"There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest."
Napoleon Bonaparte"Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues."
Napoleon Bonaparte"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions."
Leonardo da Vinci"Every man is a volume if you know how to read him."
William Ellery Channing"Honor is simply the morality of superior men."
H. L. Mencken"The less men think, the more they talk."
Montesquieu"Natural beauty really entices men. They will tell you this time and time again, and studies consistently prove it."
Helen Fisher"No nice men are good at getting taxis."
Katharine Whitehorn"Men are only as loyal as their options."
Bill Maher"At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past."
Maurice Maeterlinck"I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird."
Coco Chanel"First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others."
Amos Bronson Alcott"The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him."
Niccolo Machiavelli"I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in."
George McGovern"It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little."
Diogenes"Culture makes all men gentle."
Menander"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one."
Marcus Aurelius"It takes two men to make one brother."
Israel Zangwill"Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style."
Roger Ascham"As I said, men value their independence in a weird way, above practically everything."
George Weinberg"The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it."
Murray Kempton"Men tend to feel threatened; women tend to feel guilty."
Edwin Louis Cole"Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen."
George Savile"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."
Thomas Hobbes"Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?"
Confucius"Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets."
Anthony Burgess"Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace."
U Thant"The power lunch is no longer just for men. We all deserve a seat at the table."
Whitney Wolfe Herd"Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less."
Susan B. Anthony"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."
Lyndon B. Johnson"There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work in her slippers, but in modern society, I think an independent woman is even more sexy."
Kat Graham"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him."
Cardinal Richelieu"Men must know their limitations."
Clint Eastwood"If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle."
Rita Mae Brown"Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances."
Herodotus"'Punk rock' is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts, the souls, the time and the minds of young men who give everything they have to it."
Iggy Pop"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!"
Jordan Peterson"Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes."
Charles Caleb Colton"There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it."
E. W. Howe"Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery."
Horace Mann"Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot."
Alexander Pope"War is big business. It's a lot of money going to and fro, and unfortunately a lot of angst, and a lot of fear, and a lot of doubt. And eventually a lot of wonderful people, like soldiers, like men and women that are out there trying to do the best they can, they come back being wounded on many levels."
Jon Anderson"Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long."
Douglas Coupland"I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported."
Mae West"I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it."
Margaret Thatcher"Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men."
Quintus Ennius"Cats are the runes of beauty, invincibility, wonder, pride, freedom, coldness, self-sufficiency, and dainty individuality - the qualities of sensitive, enlightened, mentally developed, pagan, cynical, poetic, philosophic, dispassionate, reserved, independent, Nietzschean, unbroken, civilised, master-class men."
H. P. Lovecraft"I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well because every one of these vices is odious in itself, as because each of them separately and all of them together are utterly abhorrent in men making profession of a life dedicated to God."
Francesco Guicciardini"The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them."
Moliere"When men don't fear God, they give themselves to evil."
Ray Comfort"It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit."
Robert Louis Stevenson"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."
Kenneth Grahame"There's three things men always talk about - women, sports, and cars."
Mario Lopez"Men are not punished for their sins, but by them."
Kin Hubbard"Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men."
E. B. White"A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you."
Francoise Sagan"I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy."
William Westmoreland"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."
William Manchester"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
Edmund Burke"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."
Ernest Hemingway"Every woman is sexy in her own way. It is up to men to step up and make women feel like they are No. 1 on that list. There is no such thing as perfection."
Kendra Wilkinson"The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted."
James Madison"Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known."
F. Scott Fitzgerald"The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has."
Confucius"Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another."
Desiderius Erasmus"The graveyards are full of indispensable men."
Charles de Gaulle"Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still."
Thales"Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb."
Yul Brynner"It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience."
Julius Caesar"Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance."
Oscar Wilde"Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love."
John Muir"All the musicians I loved growing up were men. I loved Leonard Cohen, Mick Jagger. I loved Alex Turner from the Arctic Monkeys. Even today, I love Van McCann from Catfish and the Bottlemen and Matt Healy from The 1975."
Halsey"Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound."
James Allen"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."
Calvin Coolidge"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something."
Unknown"As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce."
Adam Smith"Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation."
Ruth Bader Ginsburg"All the women want to be with me, all the men want to be like me."
Ric Flair"Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence."
Democritus"Men are creatures with two legs and eight hands."
Jayne Mansfield"Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better."
Harry S Truman"The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution - nor by the courts - nor by the officers of the law - nor by the lawyers - but by the men and women who constitute our society - who are the protectors of the law as they are themselves protected by the law."
Robert Kennedy"We know that men are saved by repentance and faith, and whoever does call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. But salvation is a supernatural work of God that will always produce fruit. And the evidence, not the cause, but the evidence of salvation is a changed life, a changing life."
Paul Washer"Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention."
Camille Paglia"It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys."
Emil Zatopek"No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men."
Muhammad Ali Jinnah"Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca"There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families."
Margaret Thatcher"It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men."
Samuel Adams"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."
Francis Bacon"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
Thomas Paine"Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour."
Fidel Castro"Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony."
Guillaume Apollinaire"One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them."
Georg C. Lichtenberg"Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die."
Edward Young"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on."
Walter Lippmann"Great hopes make great men."
Thomas Fuller"Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest."
Napoleon Bonaparte"The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason."
Hunter S. Thompson"He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals."
Immanuel Kant"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution."
Abraham Lincoln"Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded."
Charlie Chaplin"If men have easy access to divorce, many will choose it thoughtlessly. They may not gain true happiness with their new trophy wives, but they certainly will not slide into the material indigence and emotional misery that awaits most divorced women."
Tom Cotton"The straight line belongs to men, the curved one to God."
Antoni Gaudi"Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not."
Robert Kennedy"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
George Orwell"All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner."
Red Skelton"Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them."
Dick Van Dyke"It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people - women as well as men."
Susan B. Anthony"The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison."
James Cash Penney"Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men."
Dante Alighieri"I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of."
Clarence Darrow"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"Women are hypocrites. Women are opportunists. Women are liars. They are abusers and bullies and manipulators. They are capable of cruelty, callousness, and evil. Just like men."
Bari Weiss"All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why."
James Thurber"Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons."
Garrett Hardin"For those who have made the ultimate sacrifice, we are grateful that such men and women were among us. For those who continue to serve, we honor their commitment. For those who return to civilian life, we honor their service."
Steve Buyer"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."
Charles Spurgeon"Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties."
Charles Spurgeon"A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once."
Phyllis Diller"When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think."
Patricia Schroeder"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible."
T. E. Lawrence"I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse."
Charles V"There's a personality trait known as agreeableness. Agreeable people are compassionate and polite. And agreeable people get paid less than disagreeable people for the same job. Women are more agreeable than men."
Jordan Peterson"Every woman needs one man in her life who is strong and responsible. Given this security, she can proceed to do what she really wants to do-fall in love with men who are weak and irresponsible."
Richard J. Needham"Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face."
Ronald Reagan"To attract men, I wear a perfume called 'New Car Interior.'"
Rita Rudner"There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men."
Epicurus"Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others."
Niccolo Machiavelli"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."
Andrew Carnegie"Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody."
Franklin Pierce Adams"If men were angels, no government would be necessary."
James Madison"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do."
Andrew Carnegie"Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all."
Camille Paglia"I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others."
Mahatma Gandhi"Death is not the worst that can happen to men."
Plato"Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law."
Oliver Goldsmith"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."
Frederick Douglass"Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die."
Herbert Hoover"Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears."
Albert Camus"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds."
Franklin D. Roosevelt"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."
George Bernard Shaw"The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck."
Channing Pollock"Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men."
Francis Bacon"Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies."
Howard Thurman"All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved."
Sun Tzu"There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous."
Blaise Pascal"The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all."
Fidel Castro"Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it."
Benjamin Franklin"The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life."
Lucan"When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues."
Honore de Balzac"I genuinely believe that, physically and emotionally, women are far stronger than men. The amount of pain they have to endure for a childbirth, a man cannot take an ounce of it. A toothache or a stomach upset is the end of our world at times."
Adnan Sami"Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization."
Harold S. Geneen"Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts."
Marcus Tullius Cicero"All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone."
Blaise Pascal"I don't believe a champion is the biggest, baddest, meanest dude in the world. I think the champion is like a warrior; it's like the head knight or lead samurai: humble men of integrity, respect, and honor that treat people kindly."
Jon Jones"When President Obama entered the White House, the economy was in a free-fall. The auto industry: on its back. The banks: frozen up. More than three million Americans had already lost their jobs. And America's bravest, our men and women in uniform, were fighting what would soon be the longest wars in our history."
Rahm Emanuel"I'm very proud of being a woman, and as a woman, I don't even like the word 'feminism' because when I hear that word, I associate it with women trying to pretend to be men, and I'm not interested in trying to pretend to be a man. I don't want to embrace manhood; I want to embrace my womanhood."
Evangeline Lilly"All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men."
Hilaire Belloc"A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men."
Patrick Kavanagh"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."
Helen Keller"The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
John Stuart Mill"Yes, guns are to men what jewelry is to women!"
Steve King"As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy."
Christopher Dawson"Men are the dreams of a shadow."
Pindar"Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened."
Lawrence Durrell"Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much."
Walter Lippmann"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."
John Eldredge"Finally, let us understand that when we stand together, we will always win. When men and women stand together for justice, we win. When black, white and Hispanic people stand together for justice, we win."
Bernie Sanders"Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average."
Garrison Keillor"Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants."
William Penn"Neither man nor woman is perfect or complete without the other. Thus, no marriage or family, no ward or stake is likely to reach its full potential until husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, men and women work together in unity of purpose, respecting and relying upon each other's strengths."
Sheri L. Dew"Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense."
Ida B. Wells"Law describes the way things would work if men were angels."
Christopher Dawson"For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca"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."
Thomas Jefferson"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools."
Herbert Spencer"Men are what their mothers made them."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason."
William R. Alger"I am not bisexual. I am not gay. I have never had sex with men."
Matt LeBlanc"I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one."
Marcus Porcius Cato"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation."
Henry David Thoreau"Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so."
Charles de Gaulle"Why should men be constrained by antiquated stereotypes of masculinity? What does it even mean to 'Be a Real Man' anymore? Shouldn't we all be celebrating a wide range of definitions of manhood?"
Andy Dunn"Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own."
Nora Ephron"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages."
William Shakespeare"Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win."
Gary Lineker"Don't get caught up in the 'look' thing. Sometimes, we as men and women, the first thing that attracts us to someone is their physical appearance, and that's not always a good thing because what's good on the outside is not always good on the inside."
Keith Sweat"Truth sits upon the lips of dying men."
Matthew Arnold"What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like."
Saint Augustine"I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men."
Marlene Dietrich"There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty."
John Adams"Women have very little idea of how much men hate them."
Germaine Greer"By nature, men love newfangledness."
Geoffrey Chaucer"When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one."
Friedrich Nietzsche"Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive."
Tim Allen"Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land."
Aldo Leopold"Great things are done when men and mountains meet."
William Blake"Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness."
Jose Marti"Elegance is always in style for men. There are all different kinds of elegance. It can be silk, it can be a T-shirt."
Donatella Versace"We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom."
Michel de Montaigne"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one."
Charles Mackay"No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady."
Keith Miller"We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death."
Montesquieu"My mom said the only reason men are alive is for lawn care and vehicle maintenance."
Tim Allen"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."
Sukarno"Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list."
Yakov Smirnoff"Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men."
Harry Day"A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
John Stuart Mill"A government of laws, and not of men."
John Adams"The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do."
B. F. Skinner"Your calves, biceps and neck should always be the same size in inches. Mine are 16 inches - anything bigger or smaller and you know you're going wrong! Most men ignore working out the legs and glutes, not realising that they are the pillars of our core."
Arjun Rampal"There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain."
Plato"In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good."
Charles Caleb Colton"He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them."
Charles Kingsley"Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint."
Alexander Hamilton"The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers."
Herbert Hoover"A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men."
Plato"I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men."
Richard Baxter"Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"The enemies cannot destroy the king who has at his service the respect and friendship of the wise men who can find fault, disagree, and correct him."
Thiruvalluvar"Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could."
Abigail Adams"If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men."
Francis of Assisi"America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed."
Allen Boyd"Look! Don't be deceived by appearances - men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock are in the sea!"
William Booth"Free men have arms; slaves do not."
William Blackstone"There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with."
William Halsey"For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing."
Simon Wiesenthal"Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one."
Martin Heidegger"Where wealth accumulates, men decay."
Oliver Goldsmith"How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it."
Alexandre Dumas"The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs."
Charles de Gaulle"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."
Brooke Foss Westcott"Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs."
E. W. Howe"Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active."
Leonardo da Vinci"Men should strive to think much and know little."
Democritus"Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge."
George William Curtis"Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them."
David Bowie"Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives."
William Shakespeare"Youth is impulsive. When our young men grow angry at some real or imaginary wrong, and disfigure their faces with black paint, it denotes that their hearts are black, and that they are often cruel and relentless, and our old men and old women are unable to restrain them. Thus it has ever been."
Chief Seattle"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived."
George S. Patton"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."
Algernon Charles Swinburne"With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost."
William Lloyd Garrison"Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr."Men don't care what's on TV. They only care what else is on TV."
Jerry Seinfeld"Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens."
Daniel Webster"Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don't do that."
Ray Bradbury"Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it's quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid."
Rita Rudner"Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place."
Billy Crystal"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."
Plato"War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men."
Georges Clemenceau"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."
George MacDonald"I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action."
Fidel Castro"The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done."
Jean Piaget"You can't keep changing men, so you settle for changing your lipstick."
Heather Locklear"Italian men do appreciate beautiful women. They're not afraid of the beauty, which is nice."
Eva Herzigova"By indignities men come to dignities."
Francis Bacon"Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?"
Virginia Woolf"If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking."
Lyndon B. Johnson"The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design."
Friedrich August von Hayek"All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers."
Chief Joseph"Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was."
D. H. Lawrence"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."
Plato"There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime."
Maxwell Anderson"Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true."
Julius Caesar"Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men."
Martha Graham"Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men."
Joseph Conrad"Each year, Labor Day gives us an opportunity to recognize the invaluable contributions that working men and women make to our nation, our economy and our collective prosperity. It gives us a chance to show gratitude for workers' grit, dedication, ingenuity and strength, which define our nation's character."
Tom Perez"All men can and will change. But there's only one woman we're going to change for."
Steve Harvey"Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master."
Sallust"Great men show politeness in a particular way; a smile suffices to assure you that you are welcome, and keep about their avocations as if you were a member of the family."
John James Audubon"The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government."
James Madison"Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people."
Montesquieu"One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't."
George Bernard Shaw"For tis not in mere death that men die most."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning"Gaming in general is a male thing. It isn't that gaming is designed to exclude women. Everybody who's tried to design a game to interest a large female audience has failed. And I think that has to do with the different thinking processes of men and women."
Gary Gygax"It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations."
Charles Dickens"Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men."
George Bernard Shaw"Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable."
Cher"What I've never understood is why some women use plastic surgery to make themselves more attractive to men. The most beautiful woman is someone who's happy and is always smiling."
Irina Shayk"A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out."
Saul Bellow"What do women do when they get together? We sit around and talk! Men, not so much. My theory is that this difference is genetic and dates back to the hunter-gatherer societies, when the men had to be quiet as they hunted, lest they scare away the bison and then everyone starved to death and it was all their fault."
Jenna McCarthy"Men often act knowingly against their interest."
David Hume"Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph."
Iris Murdoch"The true test of a man's style is the haircut. There are some men who look good no matter how their hair is styled, whether it's trendy or not. A man can change his haircut many times, but to pull off any haircut, you have to be very chic. Like Brad Pitt."
Carine Roitfeld"The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands, or were able to draw with their feet and produce the works which men do, horses would draw the forms of gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make the gods' bodies the same shape as their own."
Xenophanes"In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first."
Harry S Truman"Valentino was apparently gay or bisexual. And his two lesbian wives. But without any question, he had sex with men. From choice. So he was one or the other."
Cesar Romero"Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life."
Joseph Conrad"Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone."
John Maynard Keynes"Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone."
Charles de Gaulle"Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects."
Oscar Wilde"Whenever ideas fail, men invent words."
Martin H. Fischer"Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us."
Thomas Paine"When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them."
Plato"The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history."
Bertrand Russell"Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune."
Quintilian"Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired."
Mae West"To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist."
Robert Schumann"I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me."
Duke of Wellington"Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age."
Pope John XXIII"Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness."
George Orwell"Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves."
Gene Fowler"Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe."
Jackie Mason"Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue."
David Hume"Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use."
Gamaliel Bailey"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition."
Timothy Leary"It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered."
Aeschylus"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after."
Henry David Thoreau"Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men."
Jean Rostand"Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then."
Katharine Hepburn"Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing."
Herodotus"Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh"Society is the union of men and not the men themselves."
Montesquieu"I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species."
Henry Fielding"When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different."
George Santayana"I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men?"
Mae West"Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up."
Bette Davis"Experience is the only prophecy of wise men."
Alphonse de Lamartine"The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit."
Avicenna"Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women."
Natalie Portman"I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'"
William Butler Yeats"Men are weak now, and yet they transform the Earth's surface. In millions of years, their might will increase to the extent that they will change the surface of the Earth, its oceans, the atmosphere, and themselves."
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky"Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good."
Walter Savage Landor"Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change."
Confucius"Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them."
Orison Swett Marden"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."
Robert A. Heinlein"All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education."
Walter Scott"Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow."
Chief Joseph"Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers."
Aristotle"Few men are born brave. Many become so through training and force of discipline."
Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus"It's true that, in Iran, women have half of the rights men do. And yet 66 per cent of students are women."
Marjane Satrapi"The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you."
Norman Mailer"I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men; they are far superior and always have been."
William Golding"What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine."
Susan Sontag"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."
Sydney Smith"If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?"
Joan Baez"I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men."
Nikola Tesla"These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished."
Christopher Columbus"Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them."
Epictetus"Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes."
Gilbert K. Chesterton"Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear."
Niccolo Machiavelli"Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled, either by a power within them, or by a power without them; either by the word of God, or by the strong arm of man; either by the Bible, or by the bayonet."
Robert Charles Winthrop"I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband."
Little Richard"If two men on a job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then both are useless."
Darryl F. Zanuck"The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws."
Ayn Rand"We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm."
George Orwell"When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary."
Ezra Pound"The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you."
Charles Dickens"Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men."
Kin Hubbard"God gave me some weird, beautiful scent that makes men and women go crazy. People compare it to Carvel. It is a whale of a smell."
Adam Sandler"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."
Jerry Hall"If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself."
Confucius"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?"
Sitting Bull"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men."
Roald Dahl"Numbers don't lie. Women lie, men lie, but numbers don't lie."
Max Holloway"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."
George W. Bush"The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions."
Junius"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."
Martin Luther King, Jr."I dress for women and I undress for men."
Angie Dickinson"I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough."
Shirley Bassey"Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings."
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield"Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld"If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all."
David Livingstone"Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness."
Blaise Pascal"The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers."
Sydney J. Harris"Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry."
Gloria Steinem"Men are different. When they are in love they may also have other girlfriends."
Zhang Ziyi"Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be."
George Orwell"Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature."
Marcus Tullius Cicero"All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse."
John Quincy Adams"Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever."
Jose Marti"Nature has made men free and equal. The distinctions necessary for social order are only founded on general utility."
Marquis de Lafayette"All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers."
Francois Fenelon"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."
Aldous Huxley"The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation."
Charles Spurgeon"It would be a much better country if women did not vote. That is simply a fact. In fact, in every presidential election since 1950 - except Goldwater in '64 - the Republican would have won, if only the men had voted."
Ann Coulter"When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team's dugout and they were already in street clothes."
Bob Uecker"The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn."
Gloria Steinem"For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed."
Clifton Fadiman"Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him."
Dorothy L. Sayers"A lot of times, women don't get the male perspective in regards to a relationship, what men go through when they're not really dealing well."
Morris Chestnut"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."
Charles M. Schwab"Sufficient for me is that honour which is not seen of men but is felt in the heart, as faithful is He who hath promised and who never lies."
Saint Patrick"The Law is but words and paper without the hands of swords of men."
James Harrington"Bumble was founded with several key values: empowerment, equality, and kindness. We are a company that was built to empower women and empower men to respect women. We want to create a place where all types of connections take place: a platform and a brand where women always make the first move."
Whitney Wolfe Herd"As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom."
Pythagoras"Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal."
Harri Holkeri"Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters."
Victor Hugo"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
Thomas Jefferson"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing."
Robert E. Howard"Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men."
Mahatma Gandhi"Men are motivated and empowered when they feel needed. Women are motivated and empowered when they feel cherished."
John Gray"Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel's song, which had lost its way and come on Earth, and sang on undyingly, smiting the hearts of men with sweetest wounds, and putting for the while an angel's nature into us."
Frederick William Faber"When I was 11, I saw this ad for dish soap powder that said, 'Women all over America are fighting greasy pots and pans.' I was so angry. I couldn't understand why it didn't say men as well."
Meghan Markle"Evil prospers when good men do nothing."
John Philpot Curran"There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well."
Walter Reuther"If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament."
Florynce Kennedy"Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars."
Beck"Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes."
Robert Kennedy"Addiction is a tough illness, and recovery from it is a hard but noble path. Men and women who walk that path deserve our support, encouragement, and admiration."
Sheldon Whitehouse"Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men."
Thomas Huxley"Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be."
Quintilian"Human misery is too great for men to do without faith."
Heinrich Heine"Men are actually the weaker sex."
George Weinberg"A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion."
Francis Bacon"Girls are capable of doing everything men are capable of doing. Sometimes they have more imagination than men."
Katherine Johnson"Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best."
Chester W. Nimitz"The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up."
D. H. Lawrence"Whether it is a tsunami, or whether it is a hurricane, whether it's an earthquake - when we see these great fatal and natural acts, men and women of every ethnic persuasion come together and they just want to help."
Martin Luther King III"That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself."
Thomas Hobbes"Let's be very clear: Strong men - men who are truly role models - don't need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful. People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together."
Michelle Obama"People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals."
Muhammad Iqbal"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."
Norman Schwarzkopf"Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless."
Franz Liszt"Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult."
Charlotte Whitton"Nothing is possible without men, but nothing lasts without institutions."
Jean Monnet"There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures."
William Shakespeare"I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper."
E. M. Forster"Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering."
Saint Augustine"The more I see of men the more I like dogs."
Madame de Stael"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."
Mary Wollstonecraft"There are two types of men: the great and the small."
Emile Durkheim"Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance."
Jean de La Fontaine"Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events."
John Drinkwater"Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests."
George William Norris"Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have."
Ronald Reagan"I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let's face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what's sexy. And men define what's feminine. It's ridiculous."
Beyonce Knowles"More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth."
Napoleon Hill"The Industrial Revolution has two phases: one material, the other social; one concerning the making of things, the other concerning the making of men."
Charles A. Beard"Men want a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue. That is what is written in their hearts. That is what little boys play at. That is what men's movies are about. You just see it. It is undeniable."
John Eldredge"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness."
Joseph Conrad"Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike."
Alexander Hamilton"As for facial hair, I think I decided it was a good look after graduate school. I always shave it myself and trim my own beard. I change the look depending on the role. For 'Million Dollar Baby,' I had no facial hair. For 'Men in Black 3,' I had no facial hair but did wear a wig."
Mike Colter"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."
Tom Wolfe"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."
Blaise Pascal"Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education."
Bertrand Russell"Even the handsomest men do not have the same momentary effect on the world as a truly beautiful woman does."
Jonathan Carroll"I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls, the right to breathe and the right to vote, the freedom to choose their friends, enjoy the sunshine, and ride on the railroads, uncursed by color; thinking, dreaming, working as they will in a kingdom of beauty and love."
W. E. B. Du Bois"All men are equal before fish."
Herbert Hoover"My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order."
Dolly Parton"The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall."
Thomas Carlyle"It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men."
Mae West"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it."
Learned Hand"Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young."
J. K. Rowling"I'm bisexual. And so, you know, I've dated men and women."
Rachel Dolezal"Con men look for human frailty to exploit. This is most often greed. Trump found a different vice: anger. The emotional are always the most susceptible to manipulation."
Pamela Meyer"The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs."
John Dos Passos"As men get older, the toys get more expensive."
Marvin Davis"To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men."
Ella Wheeler Wilcox"I do not live in a world where people can walk on water, or still a storm, or take five loaves of bread and feed 5000 men plus women and children. If that is a requirement of my commitment to Jesus, I find it difficult to stretch my mind outside the capacities of my world view."
John Shelby Spong"The greatest want of the world is the want of men - men who will not be bought or sold; men who in their inmost souls are true and honest; men who do not fear to call sin by its right name; men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole; men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall."
Ellen G. White"Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey."
Malcolm de Chazal"A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns."
Mario Puzo"It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist."
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin"I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves."
Mary Shelley"No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men."
Thomas Carlyle"The time has come for all good men to rise above principle."
Huey Long"Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared."
Niccolo Machiavelli"We are men of action, lies do not become us."
William Goldman"I don't like the clean-shaven boy with the necktie and the good job. I like desperate men, men with broken teeth and broken minds and broken ways. They interest me. They are full of surprises and explosions."
Charles Bukowski"I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage. Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you."
C. V. Raman"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."
James Madison"Watches are the only jewelry men can wear, unless you're Mr. T."
Gordon Bethune"Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men."
Jane Addams"One of my favorite places I've visited is Havana, Cuba. On my way home from Costa Rica, I did a week in Havana. The colors, the music, the beautiful men and the cars! I love vintage and antique cars and own a couple myself."
Megalyn Echikunwoke"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self."
Ernest Hemingway"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."
Will Rogers"Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"I think that what we do out on the field is oftentimes a little bit better than what men do. I don't think that we flop around as much. I think we're tough. I mean, I've got battle wounds on my legs from the turf and sliding. And we're gritty. And we're feisty. And I think that I would never back down from a guy."
Carli Lloyd"God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among the nations of the Earth."
Pope Benedict XVI"Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep."
Lord Byron"Everyone is allowed to be vulnerable. I think women and men and dogs and cats and ants and aliens can all express themselves and be vulnerable."
Melanie Martinez"Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!"
Zsa Zsa Gabor"If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India."
Romain Rolland"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."
Miyamoto Musashi"The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself."
Norman Cousins"Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them."
Dion Boucicault"The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough."
George Edward Moore"You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win."
Ho Chi Minh"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."
Elbert Hubbard"As we celebrate Labor Day, we honor the men and women who fought tirelessly for workers' rights, which are so critical to our strong and successful labor force."
Elizabeth Esty"All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible."
Noah Webster"Achieving gender equality requires the engagement of women and men, girls and boys. It is everyone's responsibility. -Ban Ki"
moon"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."
Tiger Woods"Old men need applause too."
Don Everly"I'm a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four."
Joel Rosenberg"When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho."
Sarah Jessica Parker"Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company."
George Washington"I wish I'd known that apologizing is a sign of strength. I had the impression that if you apologize, it's a sign of weakness. I kind of picked up the message from my father, 'Real men don't apologize. You just do your best, and if you happen to hurt some people, that's their fault. You just go on. Don't apologize. That's a sign of weakness.'"
Gary Chapman"Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?"
Robert Browning"Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread."
John Stuart Mill"The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things."
Jean Piaget"It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels."
Saint Augustine"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."
Oscar Wilde"No man has any natural authority over his fellow men. -Jean"
Jacques Rousseau"Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious."
George Orwell"I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large - especially this world, so brutal and unjust. I cannot make these wrenching personal life and death decisions for others - nor do I believe they should be made by a church run by childless men."
Julianna Baggott"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."
Edmund Burke"Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them."
E. W. Howe"The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones."
William Shakespeare"It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles."
Niccolo Machiavelli"Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools."
George Chapman"Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others."
Amelia Earhart"You can find all types of men anywhere, but a smart man will always make you feel important and understood. And a woman can always tell when a man does it genuinely and effortlessly."
James Marsden"In nuclear war all men are cremated equal."
Dexter Gordon"We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community."
Haile Selassie"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty."
Thomas Jefferson"God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer."
Ramakrishna"Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul, when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood."
Josephine Baker"I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard."
Madeleine Albright