When men are easy in their circumstances,
they are naturally enemies to innovations.
- Joseph Addison
Jealousy is that pain which a man feels
from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved
by the person whom he entirely loves.
- Joseph Addison
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
- Joseph Addison
If we hope for what we are not likely to possess,
we act and think in vain,
and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
- Joseph Addison
To say that authority, whether secular or religious,
supplies no ground for morality
is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.
- Joseph Addison
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are
something to do,
something to love,
and something to hope for.
- Joseph Addison
He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort,
should, when young, consider that he may one day become old,
and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
- Joseph Addison
If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison
What sculpture is to a block of marble,
education is to the soul.
- Joseph Addison
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
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
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
She's been diagnosed as a paranoid hypochondriac.
Doctors think she may be faking.
- the movie Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
- Marilyn Monroe
In every society some men are born to rule,
and some to advise.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Force always attracts men of low morality.
- Albert Einstein
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
I think men who have a pierced ear
are better prepared for marriage.
They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
- Rita Rudner
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power.
We have guided missiles and misguided men.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is an interesting question how far men
would retain their relative rank
if they were divested of their clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
- George Washington
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
- Leonardo da Vinci
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely
only after they have exhausted all other alternatives.
- Abba Eban
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
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.
In critical moments men sometimes see
exactly what they wish to see.
- the character Spock of the television series Star Trek
It has always been a mystery to me
how men can feel themselves honored
by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation
and go to the grave with the song still in them.
- Henry David Thoreau
My plan was to kiss her with every lip on my face.
- the movie Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste
the sky as well as the earth.
- Henry David Thoreau
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
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
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully
as when they do it from religious conviction.
- Blaise Pascal
My heart bleeds at the death of every one of our gallant men.
- Robert E. Lee
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
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
The revelation of thought takes men
out of servitude into freedom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
- Henry David Thoreau
Who never walks save where he sees
men's tracks, makes no discoveries.
- J. G. Holland
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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
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 takes time to persuade men to do even
what is for their own good.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
Men are what their mothers made them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Achievement seems to be connected with action.
Successful men and women keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings,
so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
- Socrates
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men have always detested women's gossip
because they suspect the truth:
their measurements are being taken and compared.
- Erica Jong
All men are children, and of one family.
The same tale sends them all to bed,
and wakes them in the morning.
- Henry David Thoreau
The difference between men friends and women friends
is that men tend to do things together,
women tend to just be together.
- Art Jahnke
Great men or men of great gifts
you shall easily find,
but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All men's souls are immortal,
but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
- Socrates
Republicans are men of narrow vision,
who are afraid of the future.
- Jimmy Carter
There is a good ear, in some men,
that draws supplies to virtue
out of very indifferent nutriment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are times, sir, when men of good conscience
cannot blindly follow orders.
- Captain Picard, STAR TREK: The Next Generation
We have guided missiles and misguided men.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The expert in battle seeks his victory
from strategic advantage
and does not demand it from his men.
- Sun Tzu
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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