But men are men; the best sometimes forget.

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

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.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

Hell is other people.

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour’s buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

True liberal government is founded on the emancipation of men.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

We’re all sinners. Everybody you meet all over the world is a sinner.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

Man is a universe within himself.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

Man’s true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

Study men, not historians.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

When you cook under pressure you trade perfection.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar… Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

Men want to make women happy.

Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.

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

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don’t do that.

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.

I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul… we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

I can see clearly now… that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.

I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I’m a human being, too. And I’m on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.