I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."
Martin Luther King, Jr.Force always attracts men of low morality.
Albert EinsteinA creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve not by the desire to beat others.
Ayn RandMen can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
George OrwellMen must live and create. Live to the point of tears.
Albert CamusDifferent men seek happiness in different ways and by different means.
AristotleMan can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
Mahatma GandhiIt is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.
Herman HesseMen are cruel, but Man is kind.
Rabindranath TagoreAll men by nature desire to know.
AristotleNearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character give him power.
Abraham LincolnThe more pity that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.
William ShakespeareBroad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.
Mark TwainNot one or two, Subhuti, not one or two, but all the beings - men, women, animals, birds, trees, rocks. All the beings in the world. One should create such a determination that `I will lead all of them into nirvana'.
BuddhaAll the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts.
William ShakespeareJust as a candle cannot burn without fire men cannot live without a spiritual life.
BuddhaMen acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
AristotleLife is full of chances and changes and the most prosperous of men may...meet with great misfortunes.
AristotleAs long as you know men are like children, you know everything!
Coco ChanelBetween men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Oscar WildeSigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, men were deceivers ever; one foot in sea, and one on shore, to one thing constant never.
William ShakespeareFrailty, thy name is woman.
William ShakespeareWhat would men be without women? Scarce, sir... mighty scarce.
Mark TwainWomen and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
Robert A. HeinleinWith men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please every feature works.
Jane AustenPride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods if angels fell, aspiring to be angels men rebel.
Alexander PopeEvil draws men together.
AristotleMen aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy, they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.
Barbara de AngelisGood men abandon lusting after things, they take no pleasure in sensual speech, when touched by happiness or sorrow, the wise show no elation or dejection.
BuddhaMore gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
Napoleon HillBig jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
Theodore RooseveltThe skillful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.
Sun TzuMen are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Bertrand RussellThe superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability, he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.
ConfuciusNot to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk at least before they dance.
Alexander PopeLive as brave men, and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
Marcus Tullius CiceroAll men seek one goal: success or happiness. The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society. First have a definite clear practical ideal - a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve it.
Aristotle'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.
William Makepeace ThackerayThe most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.
Gilbert K. ChestertonHow strangely men act. They will not praise those who are living at the same time and living with themselves, but to be themselves praised by posterity by those whom they have never seen or ever will see, this they set much value on.
Marcus AureliusIf we know that our own men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the enemy is not open to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory.
Sun TzuAll men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
James MadisonI have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances.
ConfuciusSometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
Katharine HepburnAll men are children and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed and wakes them in the morning.
Henry David ThoreauWise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
Benjamin FranklinIn the affairs of this world men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
Benjamin FranklinAmerican business long ago gave up on demanding that prospective employees be honest and hardworking. It has even stopped hoping for employees, who are educated enough, that they can tell the difference between the men's room and the women's room without having little pictures on the doors.
Dave BarryPut two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.
Franklin D. RooseveltWhat is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
William BlakeMoney demands that you sell not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.
Ayn RandMen's natures are alike, it is their habits that separate them.
ConfuciusMen marry because they are tired, women because they are curious, both are disappointed.
Oscar WildeIf I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.
Marcus Tullius CiceroGirls we love for what they are, young men for what they promise to be.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
William Butler YeatsBy nature men are nearly alike, by practice they get to be wide apart.
ConfuciusAmerican men as a group seem to be interested in only two things: money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook.
Hedy LamarrMelancholy men are, of all others, the most witty.
AristotleThe assertion that "all men are created equal" was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain, and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
Abraham LincolnEducated men are as much superior to uneducated men as the living are to the dead.
AristotleTo learn is a natural pleasure not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.
AristotleBachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
Samuel JohnsonFondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.
Alexander PopeIt occurred to me that there was no difference between men in intelligence or race so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
F. Scott FitzgeraldAmerica was established not to create wealth, but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.
Woodrow WilsonThe separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.
Lyndon B. JohnsonWhen we see men of a contrary character we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
ConfuciusThere's very little advice in men's magazines because men don't think there's a lot they don't know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think "I know what I'm doing just show me somebody naked."
Jerry SeinfeldMan becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
Mahatma GandhiI heard the old old men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away like the waters.'
William Butler YeatsSome men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.
AristotleThe only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
AristotleAll men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
Walter ScottBlessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
Victor HugoA vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.
Charles SpurgeonMen despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
Blaise PascalWar kills men and men deplore the loss, but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants and so saves societies.
Charles Caleb ColtonWicked men obey out of fear, good men out of love.
AristotleOur defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men in all lands everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
Abraham LincolnMen regard it as their right to return evil for evil, and if they cannot feel they have lost their liberty.
AristotleContent makes poor men rich, discontent makes rich men poor.
Benjamin FranklinAn American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
Charles DarwinMen are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
William ShakespeareSo it is naturally with the male and the female, the one is superior the other inferior, the one governs the other is governed, and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind.
AristotleAmerica... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen, with all the money we need to buy guns, and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
Hunter S. ThompsonScientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid.
Dave BarryCulture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.
Albert CamusOld men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
George Bernard ShawVirtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.
ConfuciusNo sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness, than disbelief in great men.
Thomas CarlyleAdvertising nourishes the consuming power of men. It sets up before a man the goal of a better home, better clothing, better food for himself and his family. It spurs individual exertion and greater production.
Winston ChurchillIf I am walking with two other men, each of them I will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
ConfuciusMen have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree, the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
Jane AustenTrust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
Eric HofferDemocracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects, because men are equally free they claim to be absolutely equal.
AristotleWe cannot learn men from books.
Benjamin DisraeliLet me embrace thee sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
William ShakespeareModesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.
Andre MauroisMen of genius are often dull and inert in society, as the blazing meteor when it descends to earth is only a stone.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowBut this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.
SophoclesObserve all men, thyself most.
Benjamin FranklinMen would be angels, angels would be gods.
Alexander PopeUntil justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
Lyndon B. JohnsonThere are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied mathematics.
AristotleTo write well express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.
AristotleWhat are men to rocks and mountains?
Jane AustenMen acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. You become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions brave by performing brave actions.
AristotleThe natural thing, my lord, men and women joined.
HomerWithout feelings of respect what is there to distinguish men from beasts?
ConfuciusI am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers.
Walt WhitmanBut men are men, the best sometimes forget.
William ShakespeareSmall things make base men proud.
William ShakespeareMen are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs, that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.
Niccolo MachiavelliThere's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.
Albert EllisWomen are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
Oscar WildeMen's vows are women's traitors!
William ShakespeareI see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
Oscar WildeThere are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman to deserve them.
Jane AustenAssociate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
George WashingtonTechnology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.
Theodor W. AdornoThe simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.
Dave BarryStrong beliefs win strong men and then make them stronger.
Richard BachMen have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true and usually do arrive at the truth.
AristotleUntil the men of action clear out the talkers, we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.
George Bernard ShawThe truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
James MadisonBetter the man that conquer a thousand-thousand men is the one who conquer one himself.
BuddhaMen of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief, a cynical community is a corrupt community.
John W. GardnerThe only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is not to frighten them, but to challenge them.
Woodrow WilsonA hero is born among a hundred; a wise man is found among a thousand; but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
PlatoIt is in men, as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.
Jonathan SwiftMen always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself, the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle, or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
Gilbert K. ChestertonLet me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
OvidMen die in despair while spirits die in ecstasy.
Honore de BalzacI have never seen a man as fond of virtue as of women.
ConfuciusMen are what their mothers made them.
Ralph Waldo EmersonA return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
Niccolo MachiavelliHe who studies books alone will know how things ought to be and he who studies men will know how they are.
Charles Caleb ColtonIt has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
Mahatma GandhiFew men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
George WashingtonMen shrink less from offending one who inspires love, than one who inspires fear.
Niccolo MachiavelliWhy do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to.
Henny YoungmanI have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men, than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
Henry David ThoreauArm yourselves and be ye men of valour, and be in readiness for the conflict, for it is better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation and our altar.
Winston ChurchillBut men must know that in this theater of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on
Francis BaconWithout knowing the force of words it is impossible to know men.
ConfuciusQuite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money, or killed by their courage.
AristotleMen often take their imagination for their heart, and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.
Blaise PascalI dress for the image. Not for myself not for the public not for fashion not for men.
Marlene DietrichBelieve that all hearts are motivated by the one and Only God - that all faiths glorify the One and the Only God, that all names in all languages and all Forms men can conceive denote the One and Only God.
Sai BabaThose Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.
Vincent Van GoghWe are much beholden to Machiavel and others that write what men do and not what they ought to do.
Francis BaconThe worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
Alexander PopeThere are truths which are not for all men nor for all times.
VoltaireI have thought there was some advantage even in death by which we mingle with the herd of common men.
Henry David ThoreauMen might as well be imprisoned as excluded from the means of earning their bread.
John Stuart MillWisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
Charles SpurgeonSome men have a necessity to be mean as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
F. Scott FitzgeraldThe story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
Abraham MaslowThe planter the farmer the mechanic and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.
Andrew JacksonSomething unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
Benjamin DisraeliThe dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
Samuel ButlerWhat is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men but they do not form a class.
Alexis de TocquevilleAll men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
H. L. MenckenMen must be taught as if you taught them not and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
Alexander PopeThere are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing to find honest men to publish it and to find sensible men to read it.
Charles Caleb ColtonI have no ambition to govern men, it is a painful and thankless office.
Thomas JeffersonIf men had to have babies they would only ever have one each.
Princess DianaMen seldom or rather never for a length of time and deliberately rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
Thomas CarlyleHistories make men wise, poets witty, the mathematics subtle, natural philosophy deep, moral grave, logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Francis BaconFable is more historical than fact because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing, and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.
Niccolo MachiavelliAs a rule men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.
Julius CaesarEvery actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
Ralph Waldo EmersonA democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth no property and vulgar employment.
AristotleTime and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
Henry FordWise men speak because they have something to say, Fools because they have to say something.
PlatoPrinceton is no longer a thing for Princeton men to please themselves with. Princeton is a thing with which Princeton men must satisfy the country.
Woodrow WilsonMen who never get carried away should be.
Malcolm ForbesMen like a ref decision because they just want to get back to the game.
Jerry SeinfeldIf you do not wish a man to do a thing you had better get him to talk about it, for the more men talk the more likely they are to do nothing else.
Thomas CarlyleThe woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.
Sidonie Gabrielle ColetteThe mountains the forest and the sea render men savage, they develop the fierce but yet do not destroy the human.
Victor HugoTruth lies within a little and certain compass but error is immense.
William BlakeWise men should never go into a country where there are no means of earning one's livelihood where the people have no dread of anybody have no sense of shame no intelligence or a charitable disposition.
ChanakyaThere is a great discovery still to be made in literature that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
Thomas CarlyleWe sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
George OrwellThe Lord takes the human form and comes amongst men to restore his sense of values.
Sai BabaOne of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.
Margaret ThatcherIf God listened to the prayers of men all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
EpicurusWe 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. KennedyMen may know many things by seeing, but no prophet can see before the event nor what end waits for him.
SophoclesWe are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.
Thomas MertonA man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.
Barbara de AngelisOf all religions the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.
VoltaireLittle do men perceive what solitude is and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love.
Francis BaconWomen don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice.
Bill CosbyControversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.
Oliver Wendell HolmesMen 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.
Niccolo MachiavelliThe world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
Benjamin DisraeliIt is nothing won to admit men with an open door yet to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.
Francis BaconLife levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
George Bernard ShawMen reap the fruits of their deeds and intellects bear the mark of deeds performed in previous lives, even so the wise act after due circumspection.
ChanakyaWhoever thinks that he alone has speech or possesses speech or mind above others when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.
SophoclesPeople who know little are usually great talkers while men who know much say little.
Jean-Jacques RousseauAmbition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.
Emile M. CioranIf two men agree on everything you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
Lyndon B. JohnsonOnly free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.
Nelson MandelaWhat distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs.
Henry MillerTake away hatred from some people and you have men without faith.
Eric HofferIf at the end of the week's work and on receiving his wages he were to ask his employer for a larger sum pleading that though he could not justly claim it and did not really deserve it yet he expected it he would not only receive the larger sum but would doubtless be discharged from his post. Yet in spiritual things men do not think it to be either foolish or selfish to ask for these blessings
James AllenAll men can see these tactics whereby I conquer but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.
Sun TzuOur scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Ah lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture, when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.
AeschylusThe root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits but not when it misses.
Francis BaconSuch are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
LucretiusFew men have been admired of their familiars.
Michel de MontaigneI begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
Soren KierkegaardMen fear death as children fear to go in the dark, and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales so is the other.
Francis BaconThere be three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil busy workshops easy conveyance for men and goods from place to place
Francis BaconDo not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
John F. KennedyThe duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
MoliereThe reason why men do not obey us is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
Ralph Waldo EmersonOne man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
George Bernard Shaw