30,129 Quotes About Men

A crown is a pitiless master, harsher than the staff of a pig-keeper; while a staff bears up, a crown weighs down, beyond the strength of any man to wear it lightly.

The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.

This much have I learned: A man's life weighs more than glory, and a price paid in blood is a heavy reckoning.

Stale water is a poor drink. Stale skill is worse. And the man who walks in his own footsteps only ends where he began.

In the race of men is much greed and envy; but of truth, little.

A man can be trusted only up to low-water mark.

Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence.

No love or pity, pardon or excuse should soften the sharp pang of reparation for the guilty man.

There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which he imagines he can dispense with in describing the light, is error with its unknown characteristics. Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.