Men Quotes

It has been said "the truth will make men free". The truth alone has never set anyone free. It is only DOUBT which will bring mental emancipation.

Man prides himself on being the only animal who can modify his nature, yet when he chooses to do so he is called a phony.

For me, the essence of a medicine man's life is to be humble, to have great patience, to be close to the Earth, to live as simply as possible, and to never stop learning.

The Life of the intellect is the best and pleasantest for man, because the intellect more than anything else is the man. Thus it will be the happiest life as well.

All flatterers are mercenary, and all low-minded men are flatterers.

The facts are there that we have created, man has, a self-inflicted wound that man has created through global warming.

The basic human rights documents-the American Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man-were written by political, not by religious, leaders.

The conservatives want to rule man's consciousness; the liberals, his body.

Mind is the foundation of man.

At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution.

Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

The boys of my people began very young to learn the ways of men, and no one taught us; we just learned by doing what we saw, and we were warriors at a time when boys now are like girls.

When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team's dugout and they were already in street clothes.

So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who bears it with equanimity.

Man was appointed by God to have dominion over the beasts, and everything a man does to an animal is either a lawful exercise or a sacrilegious abuse of an authority by divine right.

Remember that the only God man comes in contact with is his own God, called Spirit, Soul and Mind, or Consciousness, and these three are one.

Men have to be hooked. Women don't need that. Women go freely into anything. That's their power and at the same time their drawback. Men have to be led and women have to be contained

Just as the pious man prays without speaking a word and the Almighty hearkens unto him, so the artist with true feelings paints and the sensitive man understands and recognizes it.

Do not fear the face of man. Remember how small their anger will appear in eternity.

The poem . . . is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

I see History as a relay race in which one of us, before dropping in his tracks, must carry one stage further the challenge of being a man.

I have never seen a man lost who was on a straight path.

When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.

Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters.

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards.

I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are to tell the truth.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

Only man can stop being fully man. He can ascend above all degres of universal existence and by the same token fall below the level of the basest of creatures.

All men are selfish, brutal and inconsiderate--and I wish I could find one.

What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.

In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.

The soul in man is greater than his fate.

Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.

I am more anxious than I can express that my men should be not only good soldiers of their country, but also good soldiers of the cross.

Sure, beauty has the power to excite men. But so does a box of donuts.

I spent 15 minutes writing Stand By Your Man, and a lifetime defending it.

The only real difference between me and chocolate pudding is that I am not a black man.

From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.

Beethoven's last quartets were written by a deaf man and should only be listened to by a deaf man.

During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.

Man is not made for the State but the State for man and it derives its just powers only from the consent of the governed.

A dyslexic man walks into a bra.

Vegas is great, isn't it, man? This is the greatest place on Earth. Lookit; you have everything you could want; adult movies...this is a nice neighborhood!

Do not be deceived by a man's eloquence; rather whoever fulfils trusts and refrains from impugning people's honour is a real man.

It is probably true to say that the largest scope for change still lies in men's attitude to women, and in women's attitude to themselves.

The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.