Men Quotes

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

He who kneels before God, can stand before any man.

To be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold an office.

Marriage is a tyranny, a mortification of man's natural instincts. Man needs a multiplicity of relationships.

I have heard it remarked that men are not to be reasoned out of an opinion they have not reasoned themselves into.

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself.

Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures.

Gotham City. Clean shafts of concrete and snowy rooftops. The work of men who died generations ago. From here, it looks like an achievement. From here, you can't see the enemy.

For the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.

There are no evils in Nature, there are only evils of Man.

A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others.

Whoever counters the malicious with malice can never be free, but one who feels no maliciousness pacifies those who hate. Hate brings misery to humanity so the wise man knows no hatred.

Men are not against you, they are merely for themselves.

The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry.

A love affair should always be a honeymoon. And the only way to make sure of that is to keep changing the man; for the same man can never keep it up.

When I was a boxer, I wanted to be champion of the world, not the richest man in the world.

I like a colorful sock. I'm a sock man.

Not only then has each man his individual relation to God, but each man has his peculiar relation to God.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing

Let us not mourn that such men died, but rejoice that such men lived.

A man is not measured by how much he can take and stand but by how fast he regains once fallen.

War is the supreme test of man in which he rises to heights never approached in any other activity.

A child motivated by competitive ideals will grow into a man without conscience, shame, or true dignity.

Left to himself, man is half beast and half devil.

I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men.

Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the moment he allows his actions to be ruled by passion.

Man created God, not God, man

Happy is the man who can brush aside the offending remarks of another and go on his way.

I like movies about women behaving badly, because women behave badly just like men, and we're not always adorable and cute about it.

The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic.

Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.

How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.

There is the sky, which is all men's together.

As men get older, the toys get more expensive.

Strong men have sound ideas and the force to make these ideas effective.

For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool.

If you look up feminist in the dictionary, it just means someone who believes men and women have equal rights.

In success be moderate. Humility makes great men twice honourable.

The thoughts of great men are the common heritage of humanity and let our countrymen receive inspiration and guidance from these thoughts.

great men burn bridges before they come to them

Men and women are like two feet; they can help each other get ahead.

Men have an important role to play in sending out the message that real men do not hurt or abuse their partners.

Great crises produce great men, and great deeds of courage.

The mining industry might make wealth and power for a few men and women, but the many would always be smashed and battered beneath its giant treads.

Men and women -- even man and wife are foreigners. Each has reserves that the other cannot enter into, nor understand. These have the effect of frontiers.

He [Ernest Hemingway] is gentle, as all real men are gentle; without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.

Aren't most romance heros, or heros in fiction of any kind, generally superior to real men? Same goes for heroines and real women.

Great men are just ordinary men that didn't quit.