For Men Quotes

If all men labored hard every hour of the twenty-four, they could not do all the work of the world.

Speaks well of a man to need a little something in this world. I wouldn't trust a man who could git through it cold sober.

No man need stay the way he is.

There is no more fundamental axiom of American freedom than the familiar statement: In a free country we punish men for the crimes they commit but never for the opinions they have.

It is a very high stage in the path of love when man really learns to love another with a love that asks no return.

Men's fashion has a certain heaviness in the fabrics and construction. But also there is a heaviness in the mentality.

Men are not supposed to be mysterious. That's what you say about women. But I think men can have a little of it, too.

Young women today do not marry the men they met in high school, or even the one they go out with at college, because they do not need to.

A good woman is known by what she does; a good man by what he doesn't.

The ideal doctor would be a man endowed with profound knowledge of life and of the soul, intuitively divining any suffering or disorder of whatever kind, and restoring peace by his mere presence.

Nature's instructions are always slow; those of men are generally premature.

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.

A man doesn't dream about a woman because he thinks her "mysterious"; he decides that she is "mysterious" to justify his dreaming of her.

The time is coming when man will be able to determine the length of his lifespan by controlling his diet.

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

History doesn't mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man.

I don't expect to retire. Every man must work, that's his natural destiny.

The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.

Man, as man, has never realized himself. The greater part of him, his potential being, has always been submerged. What is history if not the endless story of his repeated failures?

There is in God - some say - A deep, but dazzling darkness; as men here Say it is late and dusky, because they See not all clear. O for that Night! where I in Him Might live invisible and dim!

Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.

He that would look with contempt on the pursuits of the farmer, is not worthy the name of a man.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

There is nothing that makes a man more self-satisfied than a poor memory.

In soft regions are born soft men.

Inhibition is no good provider for a needy man

Far best is he who is himself all-wise, and he, too, good who listens to wise words; But whoso is not wise or lays to hear another's wisdom is a useless man.

It has long been recognized by public men of all kinds. . . that statistics come under the head of lying, and that no lie is so false or inconclusive as that which is based on statistics.

There is no greater fame for a man than that which he wins with his footwork or the skill of his hands.

A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.

It is a singular fact that most men of action incline to the theory of fatalism, while the greater part of men of thought believe in providence.

The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow citizens, or by the threats of an imperious tryant.

Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.

The darkest day in a man's career is that wherein he fancies there is some easier way of getting a dollar than by squarely earning it.

In the eyes of God all men, indeed all creatures, may be equal: but the divine law of the individual is to maintain and to defend his individuality.

I am a simple man and I want simple answers.

After listening to you for slightly more than one hour, I can tell that you are a strong and intelligent man and that you want peace

A man is not a dictator when he is given a commission from the people and carries it out.

The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure.

When a man but half forgives his enemy, it is like leaving a bag of rusty nails to interpose between them.

There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

Supersonic airplanes have carried men at more than 2,000 miles per hour and there are reasons to believe that this speed will be doubled by 1960 or so.

The sterilization of men is one method of birth control. The surest, most radical method. To you it seems dreadful. To me it seems that, properly applied, it's by no means dreadful.

If once a man delays castling and his king remains in the center, files will open up against him, bishops sweep the board, rooks will dominate the seventh rank, and pawns turn into queens.

A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man.

So many, though reluctant to admit it. Shun clever men, and rather suffer fools.

These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly.

Ideas without precedent are generally looked upon with disfavor and men are shocked if their conceptions of an orderly world challenged.

It’s your one last chance,” said Harry, “it’s all you’ve got left. . . .I’ve seen what you’ll be otherwise. . . . Be a man . . . try . . . Try for some remorse. . . .

I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.