• "Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco." - Edmund Burke Tweet
• "Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones." - Theodore Roosevelt Tweet
• "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" - William Butler Yeats Tweet
• "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." - Douglas MacArthur Tweet
• "Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable." - Voltaire Tweet
• "In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards." - Bertrand Russell Tweet
• "A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men." - Plato Tweet
• "Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit." - Ansel Adams Tweet
• "Men are what their mothers made them." - Ralph Waldo Emerson Tweet
• "Wise men speak because they have something to say Fools because they have to say something." - Plato Tweet