Grown Up Men

All men are equal before fish. - Herbert Hoover

Conceit is God's gift to little men. - Bruce Barton

It is difficulties that show what men are. - William Hazlitt

Fools look to tomorrow; wise men use tonight. - Scottish Proverb

Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them. - Samuel Palmer

What luck for the rulers that men do not think. - Adolf Hitler

Men are creatures with two legs and eight hands. - Jayne Mansfield

The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The men of culture are the true apostles of equality. - Matthew Arnold

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. - James Madison

Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. - Danish Proverb

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance. - Herbert Spencer

I want men who will support me when I am in the wrong. - Lord Melbourne

Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them. - Epictetus

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions. - Leonardo Da Vinci

All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women. - WC Fields

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. - John Locke

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner. - Red Skelton

Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be men of courage; be strong. - Bible

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law. - Aristotle

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. - Matsuo Basho

Monsters don’t exist. It’s men you should be afraid of, not monsters. - Niccolò Ammaniti

There are men running governments who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches. - Will Rogers

Labor disgraces no man. Unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor. - Ulysses S. Grant

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. - Oliver W. Holmes

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why. - James Thurber

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. - Herbert Spencer

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle. - Alexis de Tocqueville

He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. - Thomas a Kempis

Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. - H L Mencken

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs. - John Stuart Mill

Advice is like snow, the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Beside Leopold, Nero, Caligula, Attila, Torquemada, Genghis Khan and such killers of men are mere amateurs. - Mark Twain

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth, even if it costs them their jobs. - Samuel Goldwyn

The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad.
For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad. - G K Chesterton

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace. - Andre Gide

Each one must learn for himself the highest wisdom. It cannot be taught in words. Men who work cannot dream, and wisdom comes to us in dreams. - Smohalla

The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success. - B.C. Forbes

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. - Ernest Hemingway