Men Quotes

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase "It is the busiest man who has time to spare."

The creative process is a living thing, implanted, as it were in the souls of men.

I am an atheist. I have a very different take on who God is. Man invented God because he needed him. God is us.

A man will work and slave in obscurity for ten years and then become famous in ten minutes.

A man of virtue, judgment, and prudence speaks not until there is silence.

Remember that whatever may be said by a lady or her friends, it is not part of conduct of a gallant or generous man to take up arms against a woman.

What a man has honestly acquired is absolutely his own, which he may freely give, but cannot be taken from him without his consent.

The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.

Men control the world, but women control the men.

There is a verse [in the Koran] that says God swears by time. Anything you gain in life, you pay for with your time. Time is the most important thing that has been given to man.

Thus her whole identity hangs in the balance of her love life. She is allowed to love herself only if a man finds her worthy of love.

I like to write about women who are talented and capable, but most important, retain their femininity. Women have tremendous power - their femininity, because men can't do without it.

I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador

All things that a man owns hold him far more than he holds them.

The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.

When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.

Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.

Communication is the most important single activity of man.

When the prophet, a complacent fat man, Arrived at the mountain-top He cried: "Woe to my knowledge! I intended to see good white lands And bad black lands— But the scene is grey.

The frame of the cave leads to the frame of man.

For the wise man delights in establishing his merit, the brave man likes to show his courage in action, the covetous man is quick at seizing advantages, and the stupid man has no fear of death.

Once you've learned to study in a bathing suit on the grass with muscled men throwing frisbees over your head, you can accomplish almost anything.

O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.

The man who hunts a deer does not gaze at the mountains.

The dull, purblind folly of the very rich men, their greed and arrogance, and the corruption in business and politics, have tended to produce a very unhealthy condition.

The worth of a wife is a man's good fortune; His jewels are his good children.

A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.

If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.

Curiosity draws a man from consideration of the effect, to seek the cause.

No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.

Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses.

The perpetual tendency of the race of man to increase beyond the means of subsistence is one of the general laws of animated nature, which we can have no reason to expect to change.

And that is why the man who wants to see clearly, before he will believe, never starts on the journey.

A man's greatest care should be for that place where he lives longest; therefore eternity should be his scope.

So little trouble do men take in the search after truth; so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand.

Remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action.

If it is true that men are better than women because they are stronger, why aren't our sumo wrestlers in the government?

I wouldn't call myself a coward, no way. But being buried alive is something I could never handle. The only way you'd see me being buried alive is if I was dead, man.

If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question.

I detest the masculine point of view. I am bored by his heroism, virtue, and honour. I think the best these men can do is not talk about themselves anymore.

Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked.

Into this neutral air Where blind skyscrapers use Their full height to proclaim The strength of Collective Man, Each language pours its vain Competitive excuse.

She loved three things — a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

The illiterate of the future will not be the man who cannot read the alphabet, but the one who cannot take a photograph.

Wise men don't judge: they seek to understand.

We're conditioned in this country to believe that if there's a problem, the black man is usually the culprit.

Long ago when men cursed and beat the ground with sticks, it was called witchcraft. Today it's called golf.

True worship is when the spirit, the immortal and invisible part of man, speaks to and meets with God, who is immortal and invisible.

The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone.