Men Quotes

As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man.

Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.

What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute.

The man is the first weapon of battle. Let us study the soldier, for it is he who brings reality to it.

He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot see physically with his eyes.

If a man marries his housekeeper or his cook, the national dividend is diminished.

Science can have no quarrel with a religion which postulates a God to whom men are His children.

Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are its tormented souls.

A man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress.

A man doesn't borrow pieces of his body. A building doesn't borrow hunks of its soul. Its maker gives it the soul and every wall, window and stairway to express it.

It is a mistake to suppose that the whole issue is how to free man. The issue is to improve the way in which he is controlled.

Men build society and society builds men.

Regard man as a mine rich in gems of inestimable value. Education can, alone, cause it to reveal its treasures, and enable mankind to benefit there from.

When a man's making love, the last thing he thinks about is war.

A free man thinks of nothing less than of death; and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

Our program is simple: we wish to govern Italy. They ask us for programs but there are already too many. It is not programs that are wanting for the salvation of Italy but men and will power.

The man that walks wit crowd, will get no farther than the crowd. The man that walks alone, will reach places unknown.

What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics?

Speech is the best show a man puts on.

You won't regret the men you never killed, but you will regret the women you passed up.

Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.

A good man may fall, but he falls like a ball [and rebounds]; the ignoble man falls like a lump of clay.

Even the severed branch grows again, and the sunken moon returns: wise men who ponder this are not troubled in adversity.

A real man makes his own luck.

All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.

Behind every great man in prison is another great man in prison.

The circumstances that surround a man's life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining factor between success and failure.

We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.

I don't know if it's animalistic or what, but men become like peacocks with their feathers up when women are around.

Self-will seems to be the only virtue that takes no account of man-made laws.

For when the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through places without water, seeking rest; and not finding. . .

Is there a difference between a man who thinks that honesty is the best policy, and an honest man?

Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.

Surprisingly few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because... they are too indolent to apply themselves with the seriousness and the attention that is necessary to solve important problems.

I wanted to give men an accessible line of clothing that's comfortable yet stylish and will help them to present the best version of themselves. It's easy - when you look good, you feel good.

Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.

The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men, but rather their conqueror, an outlaw, who controls the sexual channels between nature and culture

Dwelling upon the self too much produces terrible fatigue. A man in that position is deaf and blind to everything else. The fatigue itself makes him cease to see the marvels all around.

I was once asked what it takes to be a great manager...my response? Great players.

Men are good but women are magic.

[On Peter III:] He did not have a bad heart; but a weak man usually has not.

When you look directly at an insane man all you see is a reflection of your own knowledge that he's insane, which is not to see him at all.

[General Curtis] LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side has lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?

Let us depart! the universal sun Confines not to one land his blessed beams; Nor is man rooted, like a tree, whose seed, the winds on some ungenial soil have cast there, where it cannot prosper.

A man should think when he fishing of all manner and shape of things, flowing as easily through the mind as the light stream among the rocks

Oh, I was an ugly kid. My old man took me to the zoo. They thanked him for returning me.

You can see the ball go past them, or the man, but you'll never see both man and ball go past at the same time. So if the ball goes past, the man won't, or if the man goes past they'll take the ball.