Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
Jonathan Swift

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
Jonathan Swift

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
Jonathan Swift

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.
Jonathan Swift

Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.
Jonathan Swift

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.
Billy Graham

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.
Billy Graham

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.
Rodney Dangerfield

These are the times that try men's souls.
Thomas Paine

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
Thomas Paine

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
Thomas Paine

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

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.
Stephen Leacock

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
Karl Marx

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
Karl Marx

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
Karl Marx

Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
Karl Marx

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
Charles de Gaulle

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
Charles de Gaulle

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
Charles de Gaulle