All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.
If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.
The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.
There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.
When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.
All brave men love for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.
When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.
No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.
Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.
Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.
Guys are simple... women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated as they are, only way more mysterious. The whole point is guys are not thinking much. They are just what they appear to be. Tragically.
There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.
Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
I don't think feminism, as I understand the definition, implies the rejection of maternal values, nurturing children, caring about the men in your life. That is just nonsense to me.
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.
If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children's and grandchildren's fates, are decided.
It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men.
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later for another thing, they die earlier.