Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
I've always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territory. Give me land, give me land.
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.
Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wanted... to build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home.
Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
Neutral men are the devil's allies.
Men tend to feel threatened; women tend to feel guilty.
Men do not fail; they give up trying.
For tis not in mere death that men die most.
To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men.
Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes, and men grow better as the world grows old.
The greatest want of the world is the want of men - men who will not be bought or sold; men who in their inmost souls are true and honest; men who do not fear to call sin by its right name; men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole; men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.
The army teaches boys to think like men.
There are two types of men: the great and the small.
It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.
I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper.
Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.
Italian men do appreciate beautiful women. They're not afraid of the beauty, which is nice.
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.
The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.
The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.
If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
By indignities men come to dignities.
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.
Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.
Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these, they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve.
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
Airline pilots are men to be admired and respected. Men to be trusted. Men of means. And you don't expect an airline pilot to be a local resident. Or a check swindler.
When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.