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There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.
— Lafcadio Hearn
No poem is easily grasped so why should any reader expect fast results? 
— John Barton
Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.
— John Barton
An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive.
— John Barton
I studied poetry in college and for a year in an MFA program. As time went on, my poems got more and more complicated. What I was really trying to do was tell stories.
— Jennifer McMahon
I like poems that are little games.
— Peter Davison
I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.
— Marguerite Young
I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.
— Saul Williams
Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.
— Franz Grillparzer
I'll try anything, but the pig testicles in Taiwan were a little much. Eh, it wasn't half bad. There was this one dish I had there, the translation is, 'The Monk Jumps over the Fence.' It's a fish dish with all these spices. It was beautiful, man - it was poetry. It had a whole story.
— Steven Adams
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.
— Horace Walpole
I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.
— Mahmoud Darwish
I see poetry as spiritual medicine.
— Mahmoud Darwish
Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.
— Mahmoud Darwish
That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.
— Walter Pater
Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.
— Diane Wakoski
I really love poetry. I'm a big E.E. Cummings fan and a big Walt Whitman fan, and I have a big book of poetry.
— Mae Whitman
I didn't know how to weigh ideas about poetry. Nothing in the life I lived as a student - and later as wife and mother at the suburban edge of Dublin - suggested I had the wherewithal to do so. But I did have a unit of measurement. It was the measure of my own life.
— Eavan Boland
Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.
— Mark Strand
Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.
— Mark Strand
You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble.
— Charles Olson
There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.
— Philip Levine
I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader... I guess when I was in my 20s and in New York and maybe even in my early 30s, I would write for my wife Janice... mainly for my poet friends and my wife, who was very smart about poetry.
— Kenneth Koch
We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.
— Jack Prelutsky
Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
— Jack Prelutsky
Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
— Jack Prelutsky
I started out as a writer. Poetry and prose and also kind of satirical David Sedaris-esque stuff.
— Pauley Perrette
Eloquence is the poetry of prose.
— William C. Bryant
The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think.
— June Jordan
I wanted to write the kind of poetry that people read and remembered, that they lived by - the kinds of lines that I carried with me from moment to moment on a given day without even having chosen to.
— Tracy K. Smith
I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.
— Boris Pasternak
That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.
— Lascelles Abercrombie
Do-gooders are easily overlooked. We're supposed to be soft, touchy-feely types, who wear Birkenstocks, compost everything, and write poetry by candlelight.
— Nancy Lublin
The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.
— Raoul Vaneigem
You don't have to suffer to be a poet adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. 
— John Ciardi
Poetry lies its way to the truth.
— John Ciardi
I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose.
— Shelby Foote
Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.
— Johann Georg Hamann
Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
— A. E. Housman
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.
— M. H. Abrams
I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs.
— Roger Waters
We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words. 
— John Fowles
Poetry is the deification of reality.
— Edith Sitwell
No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry - to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave.
— Knut Hamsun
Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.
— Robert Staughton Lynd
I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
— Randall Jarrell
To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.
— Laura Riding
The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.
— Laura Riding
Well, I write a lot of poetry - that's where it usually all starts. I definitely want to show you guys sides of me - love, loss, heartbreak - all of that good stuff!
— Tristan Wilds
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
— Alfred de Musset
However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.
— James Schuyler
I used to joke that if acting didn't work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback.
— Merritt Wever
I wrote poetry, journals, and, especially, plays for the neighborhood kids to perform. I had an ordinary, happy childhood. Nothing much was going on, but I had fun.
— Alex Flinn
Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of his poetry occupies.
— Tomas Transtromer
I was kind of an outcast in school 'cause I always kept to myself and was writing poetry and then going on tour with my brother band all the time, so kids didn't know what to make of me.
— Christina Perri
And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I'll be more contented working in an office than ever before.
— Hart Crane
Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together, in a single imaginary being, circumstances and characteristics which occur in nature in many different persons.
— Francisco Goya
The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.
— Mark Van Doren
Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.
— Georges Braque
How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.
— Robert Penn Warren
The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.
— Robert Penn Warren
You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.
— Stephane Mallarme
Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.
— Norman O. Brown
I intended an Ode, And it turned to a Sonnet.
— Henry Austin Dobson
A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances.
— Douglas Dunn
I've always written poetry and lyrics. My first husband, who was a musician, we wrote a bunch of songs together.
— P. J. Soles
There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.
— John Ashbery
Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.
— Bernie Taupin
I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.
— John Ashbery
The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.
— Basil Bunting
I've been surprised to learn how many people love poetry. It's beautiful to see that people want poetry in their lives.
— Peleg Top
It's always good to show that poetry isn't the little depressed lyric people believe it to be, that it's something bigger.
— John Fuller
In Bonn, where I studied for a year, I changed from classical to Romance philology, taught there by its great founder, F. Diez, and at the beginning of 1852, I received the doctorate for a dissertation on the refrain in Provencal poetry.
— Paul Heyse
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
— Charles Simic
Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.
— Dennis Gabor
I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.
— J. Milton Hayes
I think of myself as an ambassador of the arts. In my heart of hearts, I know the world would be a more peaceful, tender place if we were more moved by the poetry around us.
— Tim Seibles
As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.
— Julius Caesar
It was pride that changed angels into devils it is humility that makes men as angels. 
— Saint Augustine
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.
— Norman Mailer
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.
— Ernest Hemingway
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
— Benjamin Franklin
Some men see things as they are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.
— Robert Kennedy
It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.
— Lana Turner
It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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.
— Plato
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
— William Shakespeare
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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.
— Malcolm X
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.
— Robert Webb
Victory usually goes to the army who has better trained officers and men.
— Sun Tzu
No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
— Blaise Pascal
Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
— Harry Day
Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.
— Aldo Leopold
Watches are the only jewelry men can wear, unless you're Mr. T.
— Gordon Bethune
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.
— Will Rogers
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Passion is what gets you through the hardest times that might otherwise make strong men weak, or make you give up.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
— Abraham Lincoln
All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
— Socrates
If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.
— Ayn Rand
I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men they are far superior and always have been. 
— William Golding
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.
— Saint Augustine
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
— Frederick Douglass
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.
— Robert Kennedy
Two men look out the same prison bars one sees mud and the other stars. 
— Beck
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.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
— Felix Adler
Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these, they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve.
— Francis of Assisi
The Industrial Revolution has two phases: one material, the other social; one concerning the making of things, the other concerning the making of men.
— Charles A. Beard
It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
— Samuel Adams
A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.
— Mario Puzo
Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.
— Alexander Hamilton
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.
— Woodrow Wilson
These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.
— Christopher Columbus
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
— Martha Graham
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
— Thomas Jefferson
The evil that men do lives after them the good is oft interred with their bones. 
— William Shakespeare
Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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.
— Muhammad Iqbal
I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.
— Marcus Aurelius
Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
— Ayn Rand
Yes, guns are to men what jewelry is to women!
— Steve King
All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.
— Sun Tzu
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
— Charles Dickens
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.
— Henry David Thoreau
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
— Victor Hugo
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
— Thomas Paine
When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
— Alexander Hamilton
If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.
— Bayard Rustin
To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men.
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
In the past the man has been first in the future the system must be first... The first object of any good system must be that of developing first class men. 
— Frederick W. Taylor
Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company. 
— George Washington
Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly.
— Malcolm X
You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.
— Ho Chi Minh
I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.
— Andrew Carnegie
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act. 
— Buddha
Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.
— Marcus Aurelius
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.
— Jesus Christ
Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.
— Nelson Mandela
Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
— Ida B. Wells
An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
— Charles Darwin
They talk like angels but they live like men.
— St. Jerome
The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.
— Charles Spurgeon
I am not a hero but the brave men who died deserved this honor.
— Ira Hayes
The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has. 
— Confucius
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.
— Carine Roitfeld
All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner!'
— John F. Kennedy
The child often sees only what he already knows. He projects the whole of his verbal thought into things. He sees mountains as built by men, rivers as dug out with spades, the sun and moon as following us on our walks.
— Jean Piaget
Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.
— Julius Caesar
Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
— George Orwell
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.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
— Henry David Thoreau
Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it's quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid.
— Rita Rudner
The less men think, the more they talk.
— Charles de Montesquieu
Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
— Karl Marx
It does not take great men to do great things it only takes consecrated men. 
— Phillips Brooks
While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.
— Henry David Thoreau
I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.
— Henry Ford
There is no justice among men.
— Nicholas II of Russia
Make no little plans they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. 
— Daniel Burnham
The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
— Victor Hugo
Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to be popular.
— Lord North
A woman simply is, but a man must become.
— Camille Paglia
Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don't do that.
— Ray Bradbury
Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
I like being a woman, even in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.
— Whitney Houston
Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.
— Ayn Rand
Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
— Samuel Richardson
In Medford, I awaked the Captain of the Minute Men; & after that, I alarmed almost every house, till I got to Lexington.
— Paul Revere
With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
— William Lloyd Garrison
Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
— Camille Paglia
Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.
— Rene Descartes
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
— Edmund Burke
It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
— Mahatma Gandhi
For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.
— Simon Wiesenthal
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.
— W. E. B. Du Bois
Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.
— Pope John Paul II
Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
— Richard Bach
Elegance is always in style for men. There are all different kinds of elegance. It can be silk, it can be a T-shirt.
— Donatella Versace
I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.
— Samuel de Champlain
Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
— Iris Murdoch
Neutral men are the devil's allies.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. 
— Joseph Conrad
Even the handsomest men do not have the same momentary effect on the world as a truly beautiful woman does.
— Jonathan Carroll
Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
— Karl Marx
Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.
— Francis of Assisi
Content makes poor men rich discontent makes rich men poor. 
— Benjamin Franklin
When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines the kind of men we are.
— Cesar Chavez
Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
— Dante Alighieri
Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.
— Buddha
During a few days' halt near Vesontio for the provision of corn and other supplies, a panic arose from inquiries made by our troops and remarks uttered by Gauls and traders, who affirmed that the Germans were men of a mighty frame and an incredible valour and skill at arms.
— Julius Caesar
Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
— Epictetus
Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.
— Augustus
Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going they merely want to know where everyone else has been. 
— Jim Bishop
Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.
— Kanye West
The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.
— Camillo di Cavour
Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.
— John W. Gardner
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.
— W. E. B. Du Bois
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.
— Tom Wolfe
Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.
— Sun Tzu
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
— Thomas Paine
We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.
— Haile Selassie
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
— Thomas Fuller
I suppose I've always done my share of crying, especially when there's no other way to contain my feelings. I know that men ain't supposed to cry, but I think that's wrong. Crying's always been a way for me to get things out which are buried deep, deep down. When I sing, I often cry. Crying is feeling, and feeling is being human. Oh yes, I cry.
— Ray Charles
We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men.
— George Ripley
Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
— George Orwell
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.
— Aeschylus
I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
— Ice T
Bad men are full of repentance.
— Aristotle
When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.
— Pearl S. Buck
Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.
— Cher
Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.
— Voltaire
You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.
— Harry S Truman
As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!
— Coco Chanel
The intelligent ruler makes the law select men and makes no arbitrary appointment himself he makes the law measure merits and makes no arbitrary judgment himself. 
— Han Fei
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.
— H. P. Lovecraft
If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.
— Thomas Wolfe
I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.
— Martin Luther
Men freely believe that which they desire.
— Julius Caesar
As a young boy, I was obsessed with endangered species and the extinct species that men killed off. Biology was the subject in school that I was incredibly passionate about.
— Leonardo DiCaprio
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
— Charles de Gaulle
A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.
— Albert Schweitzer
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
— Blaise Pascal
Men may die, but the fabrics of free institutions remains unshaken.
— Chester A. Arthur
How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
— Lao Tzu
When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
If we know that our own men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the enemy is not open to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory.
— Sun Tzu
The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.
— J. R. R. Tolkien
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
— Aristotle
Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
— Ulysses S. Grant
The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.
— Andrew Carnegie
When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.
— Frederick Douglass
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.
— Solomon Ibn Gabirol
This society is driven by neurotic speed and force accelerated by greed and frustration of not being able to live up to the image of men and woman we have created for ourselves the image has nothing to do with the reality of people. 
— Yoko Ono
Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.
— Henry Clay
Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
— Mae West
Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men.
— Gifford Pinchot
At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.
— Alcuin
Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.
— Alexander Hamilton
Men don't care what's on TV. They only care what else is on TV.
— Jerry Seinfeld
I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
— Margaret Thatcher
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.
— Viktor E. Frankl
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.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
— Abraham Lincoln
You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around.
— Clint Eastwood
I don't like the clean-shaven boy with the necktie and the good job. I like desperate men, men with broken teeth and broken minds and broken ways. They interest me. They are full of surprises and explosions.
— Charles Bukowski
A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.
— Lorraine Hansberry
Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.
— Charles Spurgeon
I am an agnostic I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of. 
— Clarence Darrow
Men must know their limitations.
— Clint Eastwood
I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.
— Coco Chanel
Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
— E. B. White
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract it is merely a compact between men. 
— Epicurus
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
— George Orwell
A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.
— Phyllis Diller
I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.
— Shirley Bassey
Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.
— Howard Thurman
Men should strive to think much and know little.
— Democritus
Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.
— Edmund Waller
It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.
— Emil Zatopek
Men are like the stars some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive. 
— Jose Marti
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
— Roald Dahl
It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.
— H. L. Mencken
As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
— Adam Smith
Strong men have sound ideas and the force to make these ideas effective.
— Andrew Mellon
I know now that there are men out there who are, for me, the whole package, who are supportive of my successes because they know I will be just as supportive of theirs. I'm less tolerant of foolishness now; I know that it's important I not tie myself up with the wrong person, because then I will miss the right person coming along.
— Ginnifer Goodwin
I'm basically different things to different people. If it's a guy, I'm-a probably have my guard up because it's a street rule that when men come around that I don't know, I just immediately throw shade on them. But I don't associate with fellas all that much; if it's a girl - a beautiful girl - I be nice.
— The Notorious B.I.G.
Solitary confinement is too terrible a punishment to inflict on any human being, no matter what his crime. Hardened criminals in the men's prisons, it is said, often beg for the lash instead.
— Emmeline Pankhurst
In consequence of inventing machines, men will be devoured by them.
— Jules Verne
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
— Ambrose Bierce
Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.
— Sigmund Freud
It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
— John D. Rockefeller
Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.
— George Dennison Prentice
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.
— William Shakespeare
The future may be made up of many factors but where it truly lies is in the hearts and minds of men. Your dedication should not be confined for your own gain, but unleashes your passion for our beloved country as well as for the integrity and humanity of mankind.
— Li Ka-shing
Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.
— Wilbur Wright
The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, as intelligent Mr. Toad.
— Kenneth Grahame
The more I see of men, the more I like dogs.
— Clara Bow
Sometimes a lot of us men think we are doing everything for the woman we love, but there is an aspect of a woman a man doesn't understand.
— Shah Rukh Khan
I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me I will be concerned at my own want of ability. 
— Confucius
Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.
— Mortimer Adler
Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
— Lord Byron
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
— Thomas Jefferson
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.
— Henry Kissinger
Reasonable men adapt to the world around them unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men. 
— Edwin Louis Cole
Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.
— Gertrude Stein
But men are men the best sometimes forget. 
— William Shakespeare
Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.
— John Milton
Barking dogs occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot.
— Konrad Lorenz
My dad's a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity - intuition and compassion and tenderness - and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more, I would say, conscious, evolved.
— Carlos Santana
I love to tease men with my legs.
— Eartha Kitt
When I got old enough to date, I realized that Valentine's Day is just a commercial marketing scam to make men feel bad. So I let my boyfriends off the hook.
— Evangeline Lilly
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.
— Eddie Rickenbacker
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
— Frederick Douglass
Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
Some men say that they should be satisfied with the abolition of untouchability only, leaving the caste system alone. The aim of abolition of untouchability alone without trying to abolish the inequalities inherent in the caste system is a rather low aim.
— B. R. Ambedkar
Men don't pay attention to small things.
— Katherine Johnson
For my generation, the bomber jacket is like a replacement for the suit jacket. It's a piece that men wear every day, and it's something that I would wear for any occasion, whether it's on the street or going to an awards ceremony.
— The Weeknd
Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
— Ansel Adams
Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. 
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
I've come to accept that the life of a frontrunner is a hard one, that he will suffer more injuries than most men and that many of these injuries will not be accidental.
— Pele
Men who never get carried away should be.
— Malcolm Forbes
I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink.
— George Jean Nathan
Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.
— E. W. Howe
Who is to say that 5 men 10 years ago were right whereas 5 men looking the other direction today are wrong.
— Harry A. Blackmun
If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.
— Yousuf Karsh
As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.
— Demosthenes
In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.
— George Santayana
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
— Martha Graham
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
— Mencius
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don't want to be a silly temptress. I cannot see any sense in getting dressed up and doing nothing but tempting men in pictures.
— Greta Garbo
There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
— Emile Zola
On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.
— Ignazio Silone
All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.
— Thomas J. Watson
By nature, men love newfangledness.
— Geoffrey Chaucer
By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him.
— Desiderius Erasmus
I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.
— Marlene Dietrich
Men are beasts and even beasts don't behave as they do.
— Brigitte Bardot
Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
— Francis Bacon
Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.
— Christopher Dawson
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
— George Bernard Shaw
If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.
— Leo Tolstoy
Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense. 
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.
— Junius
You can talk about teamwork on a baseball team, but I'll tell you, it takes teamwork when you have 2,900 men stationed on the U.S.S. Alabama in the South Pacific.
— Bob Feller
As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.
— Pythagoras
If the whole of mankind is to be united into one brotherhood, all obstacles must be removed so that men, all over the surface of the globe, should be as children playing in a garden.
— Maria Montessori
Men exist for the sake of one another.
— Marcus Aurelius
We know that we cannot live together without rules which tell us what is right and what is wrong, what is permitted and what is prohibited. We know that it is law which enables men to live together, that creates order out of chaos. We know that law is the glue that holds civilization together.
— Robert Kennedy
Many men fail because they do not see the importance of being kind and courteous to the men under them. Kindness to everybody always pays for itself. And, besides, it is a pleasure to be kind.
— Charles M. Schwab
Automation provides us with wondrous increases of production and information, but does it tell us what to do with the men the machines displace? Modern industry gives us the capacity for unparalleled wealth - but where is our capacity to make that wealth meaningful to the poor of every nation?
— Robert Kennedy
Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.
— Fidel Castro
Honor is simply the morality of superior men.
— H. L. Mencken