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If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?
Vincent Van Gogh on men

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
Ansel Adams on men

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.
Malcolm De Chazal on men

We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
Booker T. Washington on men

Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
Sophocles on men

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.
Sydney Smith on men

All men are liable to error and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
John Locke on men

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
Benjamin Disraeli on men

Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.
Neil Armstrong on men

But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
Francis Bacon on men

It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends.
Stephen Fry on men

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.
Stephen Leacock on men

When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.
Alanis Morissette on men

Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are.
Andrea Dworkin on men

Women's fashion is a subtle form of bondage. It's men's way of binding them. We put them in these tight, high-heeled shoes, we make them wear these tight clothes and we say they look sexy. But they're actually tied up.
David Duchovny on men

All men of action are dreamers.
James Huneker on men

Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense.
Marcus Tullius Cicero on men

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
Marcus Tullius Cicero on men

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.
Marcus Tullius Cicero on men

The worst men often give the best advice.
Francis Bacon on men