Men Quotes

You should be more afraid of a stupid man than of an evil one.

when the boogie man goes to sleep he checks his closet for me

All men are born good.

Look closely into his aims, observe the means by which he pursues them, discover what brings him content - and can the man's real worth remain hidden from you?

There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens.

Here man is no longer the center of the world, only a witness, but a witness who is also a partner in the silent life of Nature, bound by secret affinities of the trees.

This is a hurried age we're living in. If you've got anything to say, say it quickly, get to the point and stop, and give the other man a chance to talk.

Always have something to say. The man who has something to say and who is known never to speak unless he has, is sure to be listened to.�

Sits like a man, but smiles like a reptile.

… The most worthy calling in life is that in which man can serve best his fellow man. … The noblest aim in life is to strive to live to make other lives better and happier.

The desire for freedom and independence becomes more of an issue for many men in relationships, whereas interdependence and connection become more of an issue for many women.

I was supposed to be authoritative, but at the same time had to be likeable, a quality that is a bonus, not a requirement, for men in the same position.

The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. It was man's ability to invent which has made human society what it is.

And by the way, my belief is that if men were the ones getting pregnant, abortions would be easier to get than food poisoning in Moscow.

I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.

For so many years, for so long, I have been so many things, so many different men. But here," he said, so softly I could barely hear him, "here in the dark, with you… I have no name.

Scotland is the country above all others that I have seen, in which a man of imagination may carve out his own pleasures; there are so many inhabited solitudes.

Men look to the East for the dawning things, for the light of a raising sun But they look to the West, to the crimson West, for the things that are done, are done.

I'm scared that every girl I care for will find a better man and end up happier in the longrun

Man's needs are infinite, and infinitude can be achieved only in the spiritual realm, never in the material.

Flying saucers are real. Too many good men have seen them, that don't have hallucinations.

A pipe is the fountain of contemplation, the source of pleasure, the companion of the wise; and the man who smokes, thinks like a philosopher and acts like a Samaritan.

Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity.

Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life.

Bhuta ia, dewa ia. (Bali expression meaning Man is a demon, man is a god.)

Happy the man who lives long enough to acknowledge his ignorance

The quality of the Lord's church on earth, cannot be seen by any man, so long as he lives in the world, still less how the church in process of time has turned aside from good to evil

If not for the direct action of a John Brown and his comrades, America would still trade in the flesh of the black man.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.

But not only medicine, engineering, and painting are arts; living itself is an art in fact, the most important and at the same time the most difficult and complex art to be practiced by man.

Without love for my fellow man and respect for nature, to me, life is an obscenity.

As our mother-earth is a mere speck in the sunbeam in the illimitable universe, so man himself is but a tiny grain of protoplasm in the perishable framework of organic nature.

The man, the art, the work--it is all one.

What smells so? Has somebody been burning a Rag, or is there a Dead Mule in the Back yard? No, the Man is Smoking a Five-Cent Cigar.

Men have the grand vision, and they pass it on to somebody else to put into practice. Women follow the details more, they want to know that it is being put into practice.

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.

A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

God created women beautiful - so that men can love them - and stupid - so that they can love men.

All such men are, or ought to be, agreed, that simple governments are despotisms; and of all despotisms, a democracy, though the least durable, is the most violent.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

There is no such thing as an ideal man. The ideal man is the man you love at the moment.

When I need to identify rebels, I look for men with principles

The best friend of earth of man is the tree.

For what is a man, what has he got. If not himself, then he has naught.

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.

A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness.