Men Quotes

Men go to a fire for entertainment. When I see how eagerly men will run to a fire, whether in warm or in cold weather, by day or by night, dragging an engine at their heels, I'm astonished to perceive how good a purpose the level of excitement is made to serve.

Henry David Thoreau

Make religion attractive, make good men wish it were true, and then show that it is. Worthy of reverence because it really understands human nature. Attractive because it promises true good.

Blaise Pascal

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

Blaise Pascal

Most literary men is obsessed with the idea that science has not fulfilled its promises. They do not, of course, tell us what these promises were. This is an entire delusion, fostered by those writers and clergymen who do not wish their specialties to be thought of little value.

Bertrand Russell

I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference

Voltaire

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

Plato

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

Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truth should be highly valued; if, as we were saying, a lie is useless to the gods, and useful only as a medicine to men, then the use of such medicines should be restricted to physicians; private individuals have no business with them.

Plato

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

Voltaire

Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.

Samuel Johnson

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.

Leo Tolstoy

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

Black Elk

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware that you are, perhaps, the most discussed animal in the universe?

Virginia Woolf

If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas. This sum may be soon spent, the regret only remaining of having foolishly consumed it; but in the other case, he escapes the frequent vexation of waiting for barbers, and of their sometimes dirty fingers, offensive breaths, and dull razors.

Benjamin Franklin

A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.

Benjamin Franklin

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.

Francois Fenelon