Men Quotes

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

Men tend to feel threatened; women tend to feel guilty.

I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

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

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.

Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.

Wisdom 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.

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.

Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.

All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.