Famous Quotes

"We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men."

Antoine de Saint-Exupery on Men

More quotes about Men

• "It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."

  Frederick Douglass on Men

• "I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."

  Anais Nin on Men

• "Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance."

  Oscar Wilde on Men

• "Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?"

  Confucius on Men

• "Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Men

More quotes by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

• "The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them."

• "A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

• "I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind."

• "Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made."

• "The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them."