Accustomed Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Men naturally sympathize with the calamities of individuals; but they are inclined to look on a fallen party with contempt rather than with pity.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not…

— Blaise Pascal

It is the dirt within men’s hearts that is most offensive; the filth you cannot see.

— Jocelyn Murray

Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their…

— Edward Dahlberg

Men are almost always cruel in their neighbors' faults; and make others' overthrow the badge of their own ill-masked virtue.

— Philip Sidney

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

There is an unfortunate disposition in a man to attend much more to the faults of his companions which offend him, than to their…

— Sir Fulke Greville

Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.

— Anonymous

“If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under…

— Charlotte Brontë

Men have commonly more pleasure in the criticism which hurts than in that which is innocuous, and are more tolerant of the severity which…

— John Ruskin

“The element of truth behind all this, which people are so ready to disavow, is that men are not gentle creatures who want to…

— Sigmund Freud

Men hate to be misunderstood, and to be understood makes them furious.

— Edgar Saltus