Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Real men laugh at opposition; real men smile when enemies appear.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Men are what their mothers made them.

Passion is what gets you through the hardest times that might otherwise make strong men weak, or make you give up.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

Victory usually goes to the army who has better trained officers and men.

Some men see things as they are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.

Girls are capable of doing everything men are capable of doing. Sometimes they have more imagination than men.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

They talk like angels but they live like men.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.

Feminism isn't about hating men. It's about challenging the absurd gender distinctions that boys and girls learn from childhood and carry into their adult lives.

School houses do not teach themselves - piles of brick and mortar and machinery do not send out men. It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and girls and makes them human, whether they be black or white, Greek, Russian or American.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

Watches are the only jewelry men can wear, unless you're Mr. T.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

When I look up and see the sun shining on the patch of white clouds up in the blue, I begin to think how it would feel to be up somewhere above it winging swiftly thought the clear air, watching the earth below, and the men on it, no bigger than ants.

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

Mama was a natural cook. At harvest time, she would whip up a noontime dinner for the men in the field: fried chicken with milk gravy, ham, mashed potatoes, lima beans, field peas, corn, slaw, sliced tomatoes, fried apples, biscuits, and peach pie.

The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

We must continue to prove to the world that we can provide a rising standard of living for all men without loss of civil rights or human dignity to any man.

The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.