Men Quotes

God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.

It was the wont of the immortal gods sometimes to grant prosperity and long impunity to men whose crimes they were minded to punish in order that a complete reverse of fortune might make them suffer more bitterly.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.

The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.

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.

Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

One of the things I've told men over and over and over and over is if you're being rejected by all the women that you approach, it's not the women!

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.