To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness,
the general mind must be strengthened by education.
- Thomas Jefferson
With a penetrating vision
you can dissipate the obstruction,
remove the obstacle,
dissolve the wrong condition.
- Ernest Holmes
Men in general judge more from
appearances than from reality. All
men have eyes, but few have
the gift of penetration.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
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
Men always want to be a woman's first love -
women like to be a man's last romance.
- Oscar Wilde
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
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
Women marry men hoping they will change.
Men marry women hoping they will not.
- Albert Einstein
I think men who have a pierced ear
are better prepared for marriage.
They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
- Rita Rudner
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
- Marilyn Monroe
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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 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
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 has always been a mystery to me
how men can feel themselves honored
by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
In critical moments men sometimes see
exactly what they wish to see.
- the character Spock of the television series Star Trek
It is an interesting question how far men
would retain their relative rank
if they were divested of their clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
She's been diagnosed as a paranoid hypochondriac.
Doctors think she may be faking.
- the movie Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
My plan was to kiss her with every lip on my face.
- the movie Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation
and go to the grave with the song still in them.
- Henry David Thoreau
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power.
We have guided missiles and misguided men.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Force always attracts men of low morality.
- Albert Einstein
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
- George Washington
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 every society some men are born to rule,
and some to advise.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste
the sky as well as the earth.
- Henry David Thoreau
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely
only after they have exhausted all other alternatives.
- Abba Eban
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
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
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
Who never walks save where he sees
men's tracks, makes no discoveries.
- J. G. Holland
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 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
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
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
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
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
- Henry David Thoreau
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 only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
- Henry David Thoreau
Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
- Henry David Thoreau
There is a natural aristocracy among men.
The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
- Thomas Jefferson
Men of lofty genius,
when they are doing the least work,
are most active.
- Leonardo da Vinci
We must make it clear that a platform
of "I hate gay men and women'
is not a way to become president of the United States.
- Jimmy Carter
Though force can protect in emergency,
only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation
can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love men and women not for their strength
but their softness,
not for their fullness but their hunger,
not for their plenty but their need.
- Anais Nin
(paraphrase)
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
There are times, sir, when men of good conscience
cannot blindly follow orders.
- Captain Picard, STAR TREK: The Next Generation
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
Real friendships among men are so rare
that when they occur they are famous.
- Clarence Day
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
Do not pray for easy lives.
Pray to be stronger men.
- John F. Kennedy
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Women must try to do things as men have tried.
When they fail their failure must be
but a challenge to others.
- Amelia Earhart
Many men go fishing all of their lives
without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
- Henry David Thoreau
Habits age men before their time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature,
nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer
in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
- Helen Keller
A nation or civilization that
continues to produce soft-minded men
purchases its own spiritual death
on the installment plan.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Difficulties show men what they are.
In case of any difficulty,
remember that God has pitted you
against a rough antagonist
that you may be a conqueror,
and this cannot be without toil.
- Epictetus
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