Top 1000 Men Quotes & Sayings

Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.

Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

By indignities men come to dignities.

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

I am not bisexual. I am not gay. I have never had sex with men.

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

The six of us gathered at my house, and we walked to the polls. I'll never forget it. Not a Negro was on the streets, and when we got to the courthouse, the clerk said he wanted to talk with us. When we got into his office, some 15 or 20 armed white men surged in behind us - men I had grown up with, had played with.

Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.

I've always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territory. Give me land, give me land.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Men are actually the weaker sex.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

There is no justice among men.

There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.

Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these, they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve.

The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.

Culture makes all men gentle.

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.

Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.

Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.

Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.

All religions have been made by men.

Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

The less men think, the more they talk.