3 December 2020 John Quincy Adams All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
3 December 2020 Aristotle Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
3 December 2020 Adam Smith As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
3 December 2020 Thomas Aquinas How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars – when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.
3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both this is an observation of the Middle Way.
3 December 2020 Julie Burchill A good part – and definitely the most fun part – of being a feminist is about frightening men.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart’s the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
3 December 2020 William James How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
3 December 2020 William Shakespeare If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.
3 December 2020 James Cash Penney Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.
3 December 2020 Confucius I will not be concerned at other men’s not knowing meI will be concerned at my own want of ability.
3 December 2020 John Stuart Mill The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
3 December 2020 Havelock Ellis If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other’s nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.
3 December 2020 Niccolo Machiavelli Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.
3 December 2020 David Hilbert If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology.
3 December 2020 Napoleon Bonaparte Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
3 December 2020 Yul Brynner Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can’t get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
3 December 2020 George S. Patton 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.
3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
