I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love. – Edvard Munch
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
There is nothing men are so generous of as advice. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy. – Camille Paglia
No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other. – Giacomo Casanova
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
We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play. – Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him. – Cardinal Richelieu
When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind. – Frederick Douglass
Wise men make more opportunities than they find. – Francis Bacon
Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy. – Honore de Balzac
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
It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
We cannot learn men from books. – Benjamin Disraeli
The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight. – Charles Baudelaire
I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots. – William Butler Yeats
