Famous Quotes

"The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them."

Moliere 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 Moliere

• "A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation."

• "The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit."

• "Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts."

• "There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage."

• "Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired."