Famous Quotes

"Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged."

Helen Keller 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 Helen Keller

• "The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next."

• "Alone we can do so little together we can do so much."

• "Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light."

• "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."

• "When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another."