When Men Quotes

245 quotes by 194 authors

When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad. — Tacitus
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything. — Oscar Wilde
When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty… — John Woolman
I'm basically different things to different people. If it's a guy, I'm-a probably have my guard up because it's a street rule that when men… — The Notorious B.I.G.
I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the… — Leonardo da Vinci
Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky, reminding any thoughtful… — Terry Pratchett
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken. — Benjamin Disraeli
Nor does God whisper through the trees. His voice is not to be mistaken. When men hear it they fall to their knees and their… — Cormac McCarthy
I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and… — Henry David Thoreau
When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education . . . the time will come when men are… — Alexis de Tocqueville
John Galt is Prometheus who changed his mind. After centuries of being torn by vultures in payment for having brought to men the fire of… — Ayn Rand
And truly it is a very natural and ordinary thing to desire to acquire, and always, when men do it who can, they will be… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions."… — Oscar Wilde
This gave me occasion to observe, that when Men are employ'd they are best contented. For on the Days they work'd they were good-natur'd and… — Benjamin Franklin
War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country. — Don DeLillo
When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe... that the ultimate good desired is better reached by… — Oliver Wendell Holmes
My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues. — Khalil Gibran
When men can hate without risk, their stupidity is easily convinced, the motives supply themselves. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Literature is always personal, always one man's vision of the world, one man's experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to… — William Butler Yeats

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