“All men desire their own perfect adjustment, but they desire it, being finite men, on their own terms.” — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Every day, hundreds of thousands of men and women protect and serve, often putting their own lives at risk. — Jerry Costello Copy Share Image
The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them. — George Villiers Copy Share Image
Little girls fear being a princess that was never rescued but little boys fear being a prince that was too late. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man is eminent as long as he is orthodox. When he begins to think for himself he becomes a crank. — Walter Hadwen Copy Share Image
Those regulations that are adapted to the common race of men are the best. — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Old things need not be therefore true, O brother men, nor yet the new; Ah! still awhile the old thought retain, And… — Arthur Hugh Clough Copy Share Image
Modern man's difficulties, dangerous beliefs and feelings of loneliness, spiritual emptiness,and personal weakness are caused by his illusions about, and separation from,… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
What a nasty act of cruelty, giving a dying man his last wish. Don't you realize he doesn't want it? His real… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
... men as a rule are more preoccupied with the dangers that threaten their life than interested in the biological forces on… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
If a man knows he will sooner or later be robbed upon a journey, he will have a bottle of the best… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
When God picks out a man and speaks to him, it is to engage him in a work, an action. Nowhere in… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
The fatal errors of life are not due to man's being unreasonable: an unreasonable moment may be one's finest moment. They are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I was pulled this way and that for longer than I can remember. And my problem was that I always tried to… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
I believe you [men] capable of everything great and good in your married lives. I believe you equal to every important exertion,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
True politeness is the spirit of benevolence showing itself in a refined way. It is the expression of good-will and kindness. It… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The Jews were destroying both Greeks and Romans. They ate the flesh of their victims, made belts for themselves out of their… — Cassius Dio Copy Share Image
I've always been more than a little mystified by poets who seem to think talking to people as directly as possible is… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Knowledge and personality make doubt possible, but knowledge is also the cure of doubt; and when we get a full and adequate… — Thornton T. Munger Copy Share Image