These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.

The harsh truth is, most red-haired men look like blondes who've spoiled from lack of refrigeration. They look like brown-haired men who've been composted out behind the barn. Yet that same pigmentation that on a man can resemble leaf mold or junkyard rust, a woman wears like a tiara of rubies.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

One of my most vivid memories of the mid-1950s is of crying into a washbasin full of soapy grey baby clothes - there were no washing machines - while my handsome and adored husband was off playing football in the park on Sunday morning with all the delightful young men who had been friends to both of us at Cambridge three years earlier.

Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He be glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men.

Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

I like being a woman, even in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.

We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.

Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.

Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought of the hidden and fathomless worlds of strange life which may pulsate in the gulfs beyond the stars, or press hideously upon our own globe in unholy dimensions which only the dead and the moonstruck can glimpse.

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

Give to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.

Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

The true test of a man's style is the haircut. There are some men who look good no matter how their hair is styled, whether it's trendy or not. A man can change his haircut many times, but to pull off any haircut, you have to be very chic. Like Brad Pitt.

Right and wrong are not relative terms. There are fundamental truths. Evil flourishes, but good men continue to battle it - and win.

Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

The rules of wildlife are simple and clear, which is not the case for men.

All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

No universal selfishness can bring social good to all. Communism - the effort to give all men what they need and to ask of each the best they can contribute - this is the only way of human life.

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.