men quotes

• We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. (George Bernard Shaw) [experience/men/experience]
• The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love. (William Maugham) [life/men/love]
• One man with an idea in his head is in danger of being considered a madman: two men with the same idea in common may be foolish, but can hardly be mad; ten men sharing an idea begin to act, a hundred draw attention as fanatics, a thousand and society begins to tremble, a hundred thousand and there is war abroad, and the cause has victories tangible and real; and why only a hundred thousand? Why not a hundred million and peace upon the earth? You and I who agree together, it is we who have to answer that question. (William Morris) [danger/being/men/men]
• Men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of defeat, and when it comes it turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name. (William Morris) [men/fight/thing/defeat]
• I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work. (Harry Truman) [men/women/top/enthusiasm]
• What men want is not knowledge, but certainty. (Bertrand Russell) [men/knowledge]
• 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/power/power]
• 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. (Samuel Johnson) [men/women/think/women]
• All thinking men are atheists. (Ernest Hemingway) [thinking/men]
• Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect. (Stephen Leacock) [men/trust]
• The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves. (Robert Burton) [men/willpower/power]
• Many men are melancholy by hearing music, but it is a pleasing melancholy that it causeth; and therefore to such as are discontent, in woe, fear, sorrow, or dejected, it is a most present remedy. (Robert Burton) [men/melancholy/music/melancholy]
• Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. (Robert Burton) [men/anxiety/reach/top]
• The fear of some divine and supreme powers keeps men in obedience. (Robert Burton) [fear/men/obedience]
• It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in a language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs. (Thomas Hardy) [feelings/language/men]
• Men are admitted into Heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of Heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory. The fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so holy. (William Blake) [men/pleasure/intellect/fool]
• Men are admitted into Heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of Heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory. The fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so holy. (William Blake) [men/pleasure/intellect/fool]
• Great things are done when men and mountains meet. (William Blake) [men]
• Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. (Herbert Hoover) [men/war/youth/fight]
• The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were. (John F. Kennedy) [men]
• You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could do for themselves. (Abraham Lincoln) [men]
• All men would be tyrants if they could. (Daniel Defoe) [men]
• The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late. (Daniel Defoe) [men]
• Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could. (Daniel Defoe) [nature/blood/men]
• The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. (John Locke) [men/thoughts]
• The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property. (John Locke) [men/society/property]
• My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests. (George Santayana) [universe/men/human]
• Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men. (George Santayana) [people/people/men]
• Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work ... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work. (Barbra Streisand) [men/pleasure/feeling]
• Dogs have never hurt me. Only men have. (Marilyn Monroe) [men]
• Your love makes me at once the happiest and the unhappiest of men. (Ludwig van Beethoven) [love/men]

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