Famous Quotes

"Men should pledge themselves to nothing for reflection makes a liar of their resolution."

Sophocles 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 Sophocles

• "A man growing old becomes a child again."

• "No lie ever reaches old age."

• "You should not consider a man's age but his acts."

• "Old age and the passage of time teach all things."

• "Not even old age knows how to love death."