A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.
Few men are born brave. Many become so through training and force of discipline.
As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Good men must not obey the laws too well.
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.
Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.
Every woman needs one man in her life who is strong and responsible. Given this security, she can proceed to do what she really wants to do-fall in love with men who are weak and irresponsible.
Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.
If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.
Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it's quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid.
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
I am very willing to admit that I have some poetical abilities, and as few - if any - writers, either moral or political, are intimately acquainted with the classes of mankind among whom I have chiefly mingled, I may have seen men and manners in a different phasis from what is common, which may assist originality of thought.
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.
Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.
Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
Admiration of great men, living or dead, naturally evokes imitation of them in a greater or less degree.
To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.
Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.
A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
Sometimes a lot of us men think we are doing everything for the woman we love, but there is an aspect of a woman a man doesn't understand.
I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.
When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?
All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
I know and do what is right better than many big men who read.
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
All men can and will change. But there's only one woman we're going to change for.
We are living in a world of fear. The life of man today is corroded and made bitter by fear: fear of the future, fear of the hydrogen bomb, fear of ideologies. Perhaps this fear is a greater danger than the danger itself because it is fear, which drives men to act thoughtlessly, to act dangerously.
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 men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.
Victory usually goes to the army who has better trained officers and men.
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
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.
When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.