Few Men Quotes (page 5)

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• best
• men
• words

Men of few words are the best men."(3.2.41) William Shakespeare

• happy
• manly
• wise

Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

• great
• men
• greatness

Few great men could pass personnel. Paul Goodman

• great
• men
• past

Few great men would have got past personnel. Paul Goodman

• men
• free
• mind

Men's minds must be free, and that means the minds of all, not the minds of a select few. Mary Barnett Gilson

• great
• men
• greatness

Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures. Francois Mauriac

• justice
• manly
• men

Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy. Edward Dahlberg

• feeling
• appreciation
• men

Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them. Luc de Clapiers

• men
• failed
• things

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

• men
• rich
• property

Few rich men own their property; their property owns them. Robert Green Ingersoll

• women
• money
• caring

Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money. Alan Ayckbourn

• life
• greatness
• manners

It appears to me that it [sin] is simply an attempt to penetrate into another and higher sphere in a forbidden manner. You can understand why it is so rare. They are few, indeed, who wish to penetrate into higher spheres, higher or lower, in ways allowed or forbidden. Men, in the mass, are amply content with life as they find it. Therefore there are few saints, and sinners (in the proper sense) are fewer still, and men of genius, who partake sometimes of each character, are rare also. Yes, on... Arthur Machen

• sacrifice
• dream
• trust

Can you sacrifice a few? When those few are the best? Deny the best its right to the top--and you have no best left. What are your masses but millions of dull, shriveled, stagnant souls that have no thoughts of their own, no dreams of their own, no will of their own, who eat and sleep and chew helplessly the words others put into their brains? And for those you would sacrifice the few who know life, who are life? I loathe [Andrei] your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the... Ayn Rand

• leaving
• men
• dream

The Men of Earth came to Mars. They came because they were afraid or unafraid, because they were happy or unhappy, because they felt like Pilgrims or did not feel like Pilgrims. There was a reason for each man. They were leaving bad wives or bad towns; they were coming to find something or leave something or get something, to dig up something or bury something or leave something alone. They were coming with small dreams or large dreams or none at all...it was not unusual that the first men... Ray Bradbury

• inspired
• old
• inspirational

No single man makes history. History cannot be seen, just as one cannot see grass growing. Wars and revolutions, kings and Robespierres, are history's organic agents, its yeast. But revolutions are made by fanatical men of action with one-track mind, geniuses in their ability to confine themselves to a limited field. They overturn the old order in a few hours or days, the whole upheaval takes a few weeks or at most years, but the fanatical spirit that inspired the upheavals is worshiped... Boris Pasternak