Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies.
All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.
All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.
You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.
If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.
Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.
We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It's not about being more powerful than men - it's about having equal rights with protection, support, justice. It's about very basic things. It's not a badge like a fashion item.
It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.
Men often take their imagination for their heart and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.
When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.
There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.
The production of children, the nurture of those born, and the daily life of men, of these matters woman is visibly the cause.
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men.
Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.
We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.
All men are liable to error and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.
But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends.
Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.
When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.
Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are.
Women's fashion is a subtle form of bondage. It's men's way of binding them. We put them in these tight, high-heeled shoes, we make them wear these tight clothes and we say they look sexy. But they're actually tied up.
Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense.
We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.
Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
Few things are impracticable in themselves and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.