men quotes

• Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. (George Bernard Shaw) [responsibility/men]
• Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well. (George Bernard Shaw) [men]
• If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race. (George Bernard Shaw) [women/men]
• Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power. (George Bernard Shaw) [power/men/position/power]
• Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent. (George Bernard Shaw) [life/men/death]
• When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones. (George Bernard Shaw) [point/men]
• Some men see things as they are and say, Why? I of dream things that never were, and say, Why not? (George Bernard Shaw) [men]
• All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner. (Red Skelton) [men/men/find]
• The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve. (Samuel Smiles) [men]
• The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted. (Samuel Smiles) [men/suffering]
• It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done. (Samuel Smiles) [mistake/men]
• Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them. (Samuel Smiles) [men/find/willpower/find]
• It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application. (Samuel Smiles) [willpower/men/application]
• Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing... they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers. (Samuel Smiles) [men/nature]
• Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry. (Samuel Smiles) [wisdom/understanding/men/observation]
• Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time. (Sydney Smith) [men/people/time]
• Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all men, bearing easily and good naturedly what is offensive in others and being as agreeable and reasonable to their associates as is humanly possible to be... those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not ultimately overcome by their misfortunes... those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true selves but hold their ground steadfastly as wise and sober -- minded men. ( Socrates) [day/day/men/being]
• What is most beautiful in virile men is sometimes feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. (Susan Sontag) [men/women]
• Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. (Gloria Steinem) [men]
• The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn. (Gloria Steinem) [problem/men/women]
• It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son. (Gertrude Stein) [men/thing/being/being]
• Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest. (Laurence Sterne) [men/rest]
• The most positive men are the most credulous. (Jonathan Swift) [men]
• I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves. (Jonathan Swift) [society/men/youth/art]
• Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly. (Jonathan Swift) [men]
• Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of. (Jonathan Swift) [men/weakness/men/gold]
• I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. (Jonathan Swift) [wonder/men/wonder]
• Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping. (Jonathan Swift) [men/position]
• One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex. (Margaret Thatcher) [being/politics/men/sex]
• There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families. (Margaret Thatcher) [thing/society/men/women]
• The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. (Henry David Thoreau) [men]

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