All men would be tyrants if they could.

As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.

'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.

In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.

All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.

Pride the first peer and president of hell.

I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.

He that is rich is wise.

All men would be tyrants if they could.

Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.

Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.

Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.

Invest in the human soul. Who knows it might be a diamond in the rough.

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond and must be polished or the luster of it will never appear.

A rich man is an honest man—no thanks to him; for he would be a double knave, to cheat mankind when he had no need of it: he has no occasion to press upon his integrity, nor so much as to touch upon the borders of dishonesty.

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond; and must be polished, or the lustre of it will never appear.

The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.

If it weren't for women, men would still be wearing last week's socks.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

To a smart girl men are no problem - they're the answer.

We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.

I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life.

Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.

What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.

Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn.

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.

When women go wrong, men go right after them.

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.

To enable men to exercise that power is the object of protection.

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.

The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

I'm looking forward to providing the men of Seattle with an evening where they can kick back, light up a cigar and enjoy a night to themselves. Women, we can't technically keep you out, but please stay at home.

Without In The Company of Men, I could still be teaching, so who knows if this would've existed.