Men Quotes

The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.

~ Jack Kerouac

Mediocre men work at their best men seeking excellence strive to do better.

~ Edwin Louis Cole

The worst men often give the best advice.

~ Francis Bacon

But men are men the best sometimes forget.

~ William Shakespeare

If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own.

~ Herodotus

I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.

~ Charles M. Schwab

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.

~ Charles Lamb

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

~ Thomas Carlyle

Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.

~ Aristotle

The evil that men do lives after them the good is oft interred with their bones.

~ William Shakespeare

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

~ Channing Pollock

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

~ George Washington

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

~ Aristotle

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.

~ Ben Jonson

History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they've answered the call in bravery and sacrifice.

~ Tim Pawlenty

We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?

~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton

They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

~ Douglas Macarthur

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

~ Aldous Huxley

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

~ Bertrand Russell

And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.

~ Lord Acton

Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.

~ Madeleine Albright

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

It's a major part of world history that men are trying to kill each other. It's just one slaughter after the other. We talk about it, but no one's really listening.

~ Fred Ward

This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that.

~ John Perkins

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

~ Karl Marx

History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have pursued personal power - bypassing parliaments and constitutions, distributing favours to their minions, and conflating their own desires with the interests of the community.

~ Umberto Eco

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

~ Aldous Huxley

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

~ Abba Eban

There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.

~ William Halsey

Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.

~ Neil Armstrong

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

~ George Eliot

Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.

~ George Wald

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

~ Bertrand Russell

Men and women do think differently, and frankly, we don't understand each other. Not at all! But that's what makes relationships so amazing.

~ Kevin Hart

I went to college and got my degree in acting, but because it was all theater, I really consider my first couple years on 'Mad Men' as amazing training for working in television and for acting on-camera.

~ Gillian Jacobs

Men have the power in everything: journalism, acting, direction; in banks, finances, schools. All the laws are made by men. Men think that women, when they're not able to procreate any more, become old. That is not true - they are still amazing!

~ Monica Bellucci

My introduction to the Madonna Inn came as a young boy when we would take summer vacations to a nearby town. My dad would take us into their gift shop bathroom, which was a huge waterfall that functioned as the men's urinal. So as a kid, this was the most amazing thing I had ever seen.

~ Aaron Ruell