I wonder why it is, that young men are always cautioned against bad girls. Anyone can handle a bad girl. It's the good girls men should be warned against.

I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living.

There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.

Lincoln's stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition - in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village.