Famous Quotes About men

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.