European Men - History Timeline

Home is a refuge for all good men. - Unknown

How great in number are the little-minded men. - Plautus

Some men have been worthy of a better century. - Baltasar Gracian

Diets, like clothes, should be tailored to you. - Joan Rivers

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. - Henry J Kaiser

Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story. - Daphne du Maurier

Next time you give your clothes away, stay in them. - Henny Youngman

America is a land where men govern, but women rule. - John M Brown

The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them. - Moliere

I like men who have a future and women who have a past. - Oscar Wilde

Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger. - Walter Bagehot

All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women. - WC Fields

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. - John Locke

Wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own. - H.G. Bohn

The only place men want depth in a woman is in her decolletage. - Zsa Zsa Gabor

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. - Abraham Lincoln

Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything. - Giacomo Leopardi

It is to their crimes that great men are indebted for their palaces. - Latin Proverb

Be stubbornly committed to your team, but flexible in your leadership style. - Jo Miller

Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? - Washington Irving

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones. - William Shakespeare

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations. - Joseph Addison

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. - Oliver W. Holmes

Lawyers are like the knights of old. You can use them to plunder other people's stuff. - Gene Gordon

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them. - Seneca

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. - Robert A. Heinlein

Men are like linoleum floors. Lay 'em right and you can walk all over them for thirty years. - Betsy Salkind

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so. - Robert Frost

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. - Abraham Lincoln

With every bathroom renovation, there are three areas that I focus on: budget, function and style. - Candice Olson

Mid-life crisis is that moment when you realize your children and your clothes are about the same age. - William D Tammeus

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own. - George Bernard Shaw

One machine can do the work of a hundred ordinary men, but no machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. - Elbert Hubbard

Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do. - Mencius

Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration. - Niccolo Machiavelli

The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad.
For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad. - G K Chesterton

There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you. - Niccolo Machiavelli

Men are like pumpkins. It seems like all the good one are either taken or they've had everything scraped out of their heads with a spoon. - Unknown

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. - Joseph Addison