Top 1200 Few Men Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Modeling is one of the few professions where women out-earn men, and that's because we're more valuable objects and ornaments.

A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.

The few men who possess the wealth of the material things of the earth at the present time are not truly happy.

There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.

To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.

Alexander the Great changed a few boundaries and killed a few men. Both he and Napoleon were forced into fame by circumstances outside of themselves and by currents of the time, but Margaret Sanger made currents and circumstances. When the history of our civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

There are few surer ways to become disliked by men than to perform well where they have performed poorly.

Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.

Mythology has largely been written by men and focusses on men - on wars and men, who went to war. But, there are women who influence the decisions of men.

Men who possess all the advantages of life are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder and discompose, but few to please them.

A few yes men may be born, but mostly they are made. Fear is a great breeder of them.

For me, I was always the only woman in my cohort, first as a mechanical engineering undergraduate student, then as a chemical engineering graduate student. There were very few women getting degrees in those fields at the time. My role models were men - great men role models.

So few women have any clear idea of the power their ordinary beauty holds over so many of us men.

With few exceptions, the leading women in philanthropy, notably Melinda Gates, are the wives or daughters of rich and powerful men.

Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either male or female, as possible. For, mark you, the women have made no improvement they have only tried to be "men" and they have only succeeded in being third-rate men.

Rosalynn said, "Jimmy, if we could only get Prime Minister Begin and President Sadat up here on this mountain for a few days, I believe they might consider how they could prevent another war between their countries." That gave me the idea, and a few weeks later, I invited both men to join me for a series of private talks. In September 1978, they both came to Camp David.

Stop trying to be men. Let's be women. And let's let men be men. Let's empower them to be men, because I fell like they're falling away.

The idea that a book can advise a woman how to capture a man is touchingly naive. Books advising men how to capture a woman are far less common, perhaps because few men are willing to admit to such a difficulty. For both sexes, I recommend a good novel, offering scenarios you might learn from, if only because they reflect a lot of doubt.

Even to a wicked man a divinity gives wealth, Cyrnus, but to few men comes the gift of excellence.

There could be few men whose love for a woman had been written on his face with a knife.

In the annals of history, few men have left a more positive imprint on the world than Pope John Paul II.

In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.

There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.

A few men are sufficient to broach falsehoods, which are afterwards innocently diffused by successive relaters.

War is the antithesis of all our teaching. It breaks all the commandments; it makes rich men poor, and strong men weak. It makes well men sick, and by it living men are changed to dead men.

At the outstart of discussions of women's intellectual attainments, it is well to remember how few are the men of the first rank.

Our struggle is a struggle to redeem the soul of America. It's not a struggle that lasts for a few days, a few weeks, a few months, or a few years. It is the struggle of a lifetime, more than one lifetime.

It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men.

An obstacle is something you see when you take your eyes off the goal Few great men could pass personnel

Nearly all men and women are poetical, to some extent, but very few can be called poets. There are great poets, small poets, and men and women who make verses. But all are not poets, nor even good versifiers. Poetasters are plentiful, but real poets are rare. Education can not make a poet, though it may polish and develop one.

Romance without finance is a nuisance. Few men value free merchandise. Let the chippies fall where they may.

They can print statistics and count the populations in hundreds of thousands, but to each man a city consists of no more than a few streets, a few houses, a few people. Remove those few and a city exists no longer except as a pain in the memory, like a pain of an amputated leg no longer there.

Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power.

There will always be a few people who have the courage to love what is untamed inside us. One of those men is my father.

It is certainly true that most men need some kind of a God. A few, and they are the men of genius, do not bow to an alien law. The rest try to justify their doings and misdoings, their thinking and existence (at least the menial side of it), to some one else, whether it be the personal God of the Jews, or a beloved, respected, and revered human being. It is only in this way that they can bring their lives under the social law. . . .

Few of the great creators have bland personalities. They are cantankerous egotists, the kind of men who are unwelcome in the modern corporation.

Vegas; one of the few places still encouraging men in their fifties to dress like their in a boy-band from the 80's.

There's never been a lack of men willing to die bravely. The trouble is to find a few able to live sensibly.

I've been propositioned by men who were in a position to cast me. I lost a few roles because I didn't give in.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

Men and women who are used of GOD, if I had only a few words to describe them, they are the passionate-weak, they are the violently-desperate.

Man's conquest of Nature, if the dreams of some scientific planners are realized, means the rule of a few hundreds of men over billions upon billions of men. There neither is nor can be any simple increase of power on Man's side. Each new power won by man is a power over man as well.

Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.

A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women.

Competing in show jumping is a school of life. And it's one of the few Olympic sports where men and women are equal.

There are few men who know how to go to their deaths with dignity, and often they are not those whom one would expect.

With each of the men I dated, everything ran its natural course, whether it worked out or not. I never felt burnt by any of them. I don't feel resentful. I don't want those years back. I'm not one of those women who thinks men are bastards. I love men: straight men, gay men. I've always had men close to me, from the time I was a child.

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

After a few days, I mused, I would have no trouble. Whoever heard of a revolution of fat men?

As ridiculous to approve of property and let a few men have a grossly unfair share of it, as say you are all for marriage, and then let one man have all the wives.

And it is not our part here to take thought only for a season, or for a few lives of Men, or for a passing age of the world.

I thought I’d learn a few new words, but the men were too shocked to even swear this time.

If men had wings and bore black feathers, Few of them would be clever enough to be crows.

During the past few years, I played men who led a gritty life. I wanted to do a lighter and less serious role.

A nation orients itself by its own geniuses, and derives from them its ideas of its own ideals, but the guiding star serves also as a light to other nations. As speech has been created by a few great men, the most extraordinary wisdom lies concealed in it, a wisdom which reveals itself to a few ardent explorers but which is usually overlooked by the stupid professional philologists.

All men leave the harbour of youth, but only few reach the very far island of wisdom!

Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.

Few men are killed by the bayonet, many are scared by it. Bayonets should be fixed when the fire fight starts

The few men who do a hand's turn around the house expect gratitude and recognition, so sure are they that, though it is their dirt, it is not their job.