Do you not know that there comes a midnight hour
when every one has to throw off his mask?
Do you believe that life will always let itself be mocked?
Do you think you can slip away a little before midnight
in order to avoid this? Or are you not terrified by it?
I have seen men in real life who so long deceived others
that at last their true nature could not reveal itself;...
In every man there is something which to a certain degree
prevents him from becoming perfectly transparent to himself;
and this may be the case in so high a degree,
he may be so inexplicably woven into relationships of life
which extend far beyond himself that he almost cannot reveal himself.
But he who cannot reveal himself cannot love,
and he who cannot love is the most unhappy man of all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
If we let things terrify us,
life will not be worth living.
- Seneca
If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying
as to make the thought of global war
include almost a sentence for suicide,
you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension...
would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
She's been diagnosed as a paranoid hypochondriac.
Doctors think she may be faking.
- the movie Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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
Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau
In critical moments men sometimes see
exactly what they wish to see.
- the character Spock of the television series Star Trek
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.
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
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste
the sky as well as the earth.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely
only after they have exhausted all other alternatives.
- Abba Eban
It is an interesting question how far men
would retain their relative rank
if they were divested of their clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power.
We have guided missiles and misguided men.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
- George Washington
In every society some men are born to rule,
and some to advise.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
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
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
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
The revelation of thought takes men
out of servitude into freedom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It takes time to persuade men to do even
what is for their own good.
- Thomas Jefferson
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 is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully
as when they do it from religious conviction.
- Blaise Pascal
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 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
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
When men destroy their old gods,
they will find new ones to take their place.
- Pearl S. Buck
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The politician in my country seeks votes,
affection and respect, in that order.
With few notable exceptions,
they are simply men who want to be loved.
- Edward R. Murrow
As our enemies have found, we can reason like men,
so now let us show them we can fight like men also.
- Thomas Jefferson
Only free men can negotiate;
prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
- Nelson Mandela
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
The highest proof of the spirit is love.
Love is the eternal thing which men can already
on earth possess as it really is.
- Albert Schweitzer
Men have a respect for scholarship and learning
greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
When men are easy in their circumstances,
they are naturally enemies to innovations.
- Joseph Addison
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Republicans are men of narrow vision,
who are afraid of the future.
- Jimmy Carter
The expert in battle seeks his victory
from strategic advantage
and does not demand it from his men.
- Sun Tzu
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
Truth is the property of no individual
but is the treasure of all men.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire,
men cannot live without a spiritual life.
- The Buddha
Great men or men of great gifts
you shall easily find,
but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The history of free men is never really written by chance
but by choice; their choice!
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism
to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
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
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