Men Quotes

We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Plato

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

John F. Kennedy

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'

William Butler Yeats

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

Coco Chanel

'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

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

Henry David Thoreau

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

Henry Ward Beecher

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

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.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.

Camille Paglia

Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.

Sun Tzu

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

George Bernard Shaw

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

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

Oscar Wilde

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

John F. Kennedy

Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.

Albert Camus

History does nothing it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

Karl Marx