Quotes of: Mediocre-men Keyword

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

Thomas Paine

All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.

Alexis Carrel

I like the idea of a love story between men. There is a great affection between men, which exists much more in ethnic groups: Latin, Italian, Jewish.

Arne Glimcher

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

Benjamin Disraeli

The great men of a nation reach out to all mankind. They are unifying, not divisive; internationally conciliating and still great nationally.

Gustav Stresemann

Finally, fighting for gay rights, speaking out in various places and making friends, men and women, was great.

George Weinberg

Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.

John Drinkwater

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Admiration of great men, living or dead, naturally evokes imitation of them in a greater or less degree.

Samuel Smiles

Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.

Sydney Smith

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

Thomas Carlyle

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

William Shakespeare

There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We hold that what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot morally do, and government, representing many millions of men, cannot do.

Auberon Herbert

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

Epicurus

Most women seem to be required to pit themselves against men in dramatic situations, and the men got to pit themselves against ideas or God.

Judy Davis

How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It's what men have kept secret for so long.

Steve Harvey

Marriage encourages the men and women who together create life to unite in a bond for the protection of children.

Jack Kingston

Some men fish all their lives without knowing it is not really the fish they are after.

Henry David Thoreau

Some men borrow books; some men steal books; and others beg presentation copies from the author.

James Jeffrey Roche

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

John Quincy Adams