Active Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Powerful men who have powerful passions use much of their strength in forging chains for themselves.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

With every exertion, the best of men can do but a moderate amount of good; but it seems in the power of the most…

— Washington Irving

Across disparate cultures that require physical risk-taking as a rite of passage, it is always the men who engage in such pursuits.

— Gad Saad

Men there are, who having quite done with the world, all its merely worldly contents are become so far indifferent, that they carelittle of…

— Herman Melville

Men are not narrow in their intellectual interests by nature; it takes special and rigorous training to accomplish that end.

— Jacob Viner

Men indulge those opinions and practices that favor their pretensions.

— Roger L'Estrange

For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making.

— Samuel Smiles

Men have made out, that only they can run the world. It's in about as bad a state as it well can be, but…

— Ann Oddy

Men are daft around women, incautious and boastful.

— Kristin Cashore

Few men are brave by nature, but good discipline and experience make many so.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Such men as he be never at heart's ease Whiles they behold a greater than themselves, And therefore are they very dangerous.

— William Shakespeare

Men's fundamental attitudes toward the world are fixed by the scope and qualities of the activities in which they partake.

— John Dewey