Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.
When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.
People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.
Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.
You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around.
I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.
Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He he glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal.
Men and women of every faith and good people with none at all sincerely strive to do right and lead a purpose-driven life.
When my mom ran for the Senate, my dad was there for her every step of the way. I can still hear her saying in her beautiful voice, 'Why should women have any less say than men, about the great decisions facing our nation?'
To die for an idea it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.
Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.
I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.
I have never met anyone who did not support our troops. Sometimes, however, we hear accusations that someone or some group does not support the men and women serving in our Armed Forces. But this is pure demagoguery, and it is intellectually dishonest.
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.
There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak and at last some crisis shows what we have become.
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'
It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.
There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.
I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.
Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.
There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.
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.
When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.
Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.