They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them. Douglas MacArthur
Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true. Julius Caesar
All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone. Jean de la Bruyere
Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands? Ernest Gaines
The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God. Leo Tolstoy
Reasonable men adapt to the world around them unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men. Edwin Louis Cole
One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves. Charlotte Bronte
Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised. Andrew Carnegie
Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. Ezra Pound
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. Joseph Conrad
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible. Isaiah Berlin
He had read much, if one considers his long life but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men. Isaac Asimov
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it. Oliver Wendell Holmes
Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb. Yul Brynner
Men trust their ears less than their eyes. Herodotus
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. Thurgood Marshall
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past. Maurice Maeterlinck