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Politics is the pursuit of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.
~ George Jean Nathan The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
~ William H. Borah Histories make men wise poets, witty the mathematics, subtle natural philosophy, deep moral, grave logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
~ Francis Bacon Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what happened, but of what men believe happened.
~ Gerald W. Johnston When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
~ Confucius 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 Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.
~ Herbert Clark Hoover How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
~ William James Most men who are not married by the age of thirty-five are either homosexual or really smart.
~ Becky Rodenbeck What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
~ Susan Sontag The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking.
~ Terry Pratchett, Eric Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
~ Walter Lippmann
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