Famous Quotes

"All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone."

Jean de la Bruyere 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 Jean de la Bruyere

• "They that have lived a single day have lived an age."

• "All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone."

• "All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone."

• "We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together."

• "At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone."