Men quotes

The most positive men are the most credulous.

In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.

Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions and take that of laborers Unions.

Strong women only marry weak men.

If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology.

I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.

Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

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

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.

Every woman needs one man in her life who is strong and responsible. Given this security, she can proceed to do what she really wants to do-fall in love with men who are weak and irresponsible.

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.

He had read much, if one considers his long life but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.