Circumstances Quote by Joseph Addison

Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.

— John Galsworthy

Men are always averse to enterprises in which they foresee difficulties.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Men rush toward complexity; but yearn for simplicity.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The pursuit of the difficult makes men strong

— George W. Romney

Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the…

— George Bernard Shaw

When men are easy in themselves, they let others remain so.

— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

— George Orwell

Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.

— Samuel Johnson

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men tend to try to struggle to be more rational and reduce things to simplicity more and are more impatient with ambiguity than women…

— John Crowley

Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

— Orison Swett Marden