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3 December 2020 Grover Cleveland

I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid.

3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau

The law will never make a man free it is men who have got to make the law free.

3 December 2020 Coco Chanel

I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.

3 December 2020 William Shakespeare

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!

3 December 2020 Leonardo da Vinci

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

3 December 2020 Desiderius Erasmus

Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men’s judgments of one another.

3 December 2020 Plato

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

3 December 2020 Diogenes

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

3 December 2020 H. L. Mencken

To die for an idea it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

3 December 2020 F. Scott Fitzgerald

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

3 December 2020 Pope Benedict XVI

The new pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world – not his own light, but that of Christ.

3 December 2020 Katharine Whitehorn

No nice men are good at getting taxis.

3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

3 December 2020 Aristotle

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

3 December 2020 Yousuf Karsh

I’ve also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.

3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.

3 December 2020 Franklin D. Roosevelt

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

3 December 2020 Rita Mae Brown

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.

3 December 2020 Hilaire Belloc

All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.

3 December 2020 Martin H. Fischer

Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.

3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

3 December 2020 Chief Joseph

Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.

3 December 2020 Menander

Culture makes all men gentle.

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