Men kick friendship around like a football,
but it doesn't seem to crack.
Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Women want mediocre men,
and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
- Margaret Mead
A man likes his wife to be
just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness,
and just stupid enough to admire it.
- Israel Zangwill
Women marry men hoping they will change.
Men marry women hoping they will not.
- Albert Einstein
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl
could want in her life, except for good taste in men.
- Anonymous
Men always want to be a woman's first love -
women like to be a man's last romance.
- Oscar Wilde
It's not the men in your life that counts,
it's the life in your men.
- Mae West, in the movie I'm No Angel
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely
only after they have exhausted all other alternatives.
- Abba Eban
She's been diagnosed as a paranoid hypochondriac.
Doctors think she may be faking.
- the movie Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau
If God listened to the prayers of men,
all men would quickly have perished:
for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
- Epicurus
It is an interesting question how far men
would retain their relative rank
if they were divested of their clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
- Leonardo da Vinci
In critical moments men sometimes see
exactly what they wish to see.
- the character Spock of the television series Star Trek
Force always attracts men of low morality.
- Albert Einstein
It has always been a mystery to me
how men can feel themselves honored
by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation
and go to the grave with the song still in them.
- Henry David Thoreau 
In every society some men are born to rule,
and some to advise.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste
the sky as well as the earth.
- Henry David Thoreau
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
- George Washington
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
- Marilyn Monroe
I think men who have a pierced ear
are better prepared for marriage.
They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
- Rita Rudner
The means by which we live have outdistanced
the ends for which we live.
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power.
We have guided missiles and misguided men.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I begin with the principle that all men are bores.
Surely no one will prove himself
so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
- Soren Kierkegaard
I don't advise a haircut, man.
All hairdressers are in the employment of the government.
Hairs are your aerials.
They pick up signals from the cosmos,
and transmit them directly into the brain.
This is the reason bald-headed men are uptight.
- the movie Withnail & I
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power.
We have guided missiles and misguided men.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
My plan was to kiss her with every lip on my face.
- the movie Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
While civilization has been improving our houses,
it has not equally improved
the men who are to inhabit them.
It has created palaces, but it was
not so easy to create noblemen and kings.
- Henry David Thoreau
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully
as when they do it from religious conviction.
- Blaise Pascal
It takes time to persuade men to do even
what is for their own good.
- Thomas Jefferson
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
- Henry David Thoreau
The problems of the world cannot possibly
be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men
is primarily based on mutual trust
and only secondarily on institutions
such as courts of justice and police.
- Albert Einstein
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
I look only to the good qualities of men.
Not being faultless myself,
I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Who never walks save where he sees
men's tracks, makes no discoveries.
- J. G. Holland
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
A person is smart. People are dumb,
panicky dangerous animals and you know it.
Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew
the Earth was the center of the universe.
Five hundred years ago,
everybody knew the Earth was flat,
and fifteen minutes ago,
you knew that humans were alone on this planet.
Imagine what you'll know tomorrow.
- the movie Men in Black
The revelation of thought takes men
out of servitude into freedom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
My heart bleeds at the death of every one of our gallant men.
- Robert E. Lee
The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
But such is the irresistible nature of truth,
that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.
- Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1791
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire,
men cannot live without a spiritual life.
- The Buddha
Habits age men before their time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood
between sincere men of all denominations.
- Helen Keller
An association of men who will not quarrel with one another
is a thing which has never yet existed,
from the greatest confederacy of nations
down to a town meeting or a vestry.
- Thomas Jefferson
Truth is the property of no individual
but is the treasure of all men.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery
as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man.
All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are,
the more they are frightened.
- George S. Patton
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
All men's souls are immortal,
but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
- Socrates
There is a good ear, in some men,
that draws supplies to virtue
out of very indifferent nutriment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin.
And therefore, as a free man, I take pride
in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!"
- John F. Kennedy
Men have a respect for scholarship and learning
greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
- Henry David Thoreau
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
- Billy Sunday
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
I have no fear that the result of our experiment
will be that men may be trusted to
govern themselves without a master.
- Thomas Jefferson
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many men go fishing all of their lives
without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
- Henry David Thoreau
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
- Henry David Thoreau
Men are what their mothers made them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every creature is better alive than dead,
men and moose and pine trees,
and he who understands it aright
will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
- Henry David Thoreau
When men are easy in their circumstances,
they are naturally enemies to innovations.
- Joseph Addison
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died.
Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
- George S. Patton
We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason
if we dig deep in our history and remember
that we are not descended from fearful men,
not from men who feared to write, to speak,
to associate and to defend causes
which were for the moment unpopular.
- Edward R. Murrow
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
Men of lofty genius,
when they are doing the least work,
are most active.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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