men quotes

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.

Prime time for men is, say, 35 to 45. Then they level off and fall off.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

Men don’t care what’s on TV. They only care what else is on TV.

It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

Men like a ref decision because they just want to get back to the game.

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

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.

The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus, every boy is a challenge to his elders.

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

Purposes, plans, and achievements of men may all disappear like yon cloud upon the mountain’s summit; but, like the mountain itself, the things which are of God shall stand fast for ever and ever.

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.

I’ve found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

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.

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

Risk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.

Some men do think I’m a psycho bunny-boiler.

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

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.

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

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.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

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

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don’t seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

Most men are within a finger’s breadth of being mad.

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

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