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Men

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can. – Thomas Carlyle

The latest research has revealed that women have a higher IQ than men. – A. N. Wilson

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself. – Thomas Carlyle

It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. – Blaise Pascal

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure – that is all that agnosticism means. – Clarence Darrow

Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow. – Calvin Coolidge

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

Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible. – Margaret Mead

Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion. – James Joyce

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

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage. – Bruce Barton

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. – Ambrose Bierce

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals nay it is treachery to comrades. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it. – Thomas a Kempis

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care. – William Blake

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man. – Diogenes