Men Quotes

The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Thomas Carlyle

Dawn, n. The time when men of reason go to bed. Certain old men prefer to rise at about that time, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach, and otherwise mortifying the flesh.

Ambrose Bierce

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.

Ambrose Bierce

This is one of those views which are so absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.

Bertrand Russell

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

Marcus Aurelius

To two men living the same number of years, the world always provides the same sum of experiences. It is up to us to be conscious of them.

Albert Camus

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

Margaret Thatcher

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

Ayn Rand

One is ashamed to say how little is needed for all men to be delivered from those calamities which now oppress them; it is only needful not to lie.

Leo Tolstoy

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

Billy Graham

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

James Madison

Are you the strongest of all men, so strong that you can be merciful to me, a weak woman? Here is the undoing of your strength: I am not a weak woman. I am not a little queen. And your mercy will be your undoing.

Orson Scott Card

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.

Frederick William Robertson

During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs.

Florence King

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

Margaret Thatcher

The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards -- material and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the garden of Eden.

Percy Wynham Lewis

Men were only made into men with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally a man any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.

Percy Wynham Lewis