All 78,476 Quotes


In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
Benjamin Franklin on men

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on men

Bad men are full of repentance.
Aristotle on men

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.
Benjamin Franklin on men

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
Plato on men

Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on men

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on men

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on men

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
Katharine Hepburn on men

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on men

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
Fidel Castro on men

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on men

It was pride that changed angels into devils it is humility that makes men as angels.
Saint Augustine on men

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on men

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on men

Good men must not obey the laws too well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on men

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on men

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
Aristotle on men

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
Immanuel Kant on men

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on men