Quotes 6081 till 6100 of 12035.
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Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.
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Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.
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Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.
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Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
Pensées (1669) -
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
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Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.
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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness
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Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.
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Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
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Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.
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Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain civilization, and capable too of furnishing the rebellion which is sometimes necessary if society is not to perish of immobility.
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Men never think, at least seldom think, what a hard task it is for us women to go through this very often. God's will be done, and if He decrees that we are to have a great number of children why we must try to bring them up as useful and exemplary members of society.
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Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.
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Men of genius are not to be analyzed by commonplace rules. The rest of us who have been or are leaders, more commonplace in our quality, will do well to remember two things. One is never to forget posterity when devising a policy. The other is never to think of posterity when making a speech.
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Men of great abilities are generally of a large and vigorous animal nature.
The Statesman (1886) 229 -
Men of great conversational powers almost universally practice a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors.
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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
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Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.
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