Men Quotes

The sound man, immune as to a sacrifice of straw dogs, faces the passing human generations.

But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.

Any man who is only an economist is unlikely to be a good one.

Man is never so authentically himself as when at play.

a man is no example for a woman. It’s a different thing.

To call a man evangelical who is not evangelistic is an utter contradiction.

What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses.

Journey over, sorrowless, freed in every way, and with all bonds broken - for such a man there is no more distress.

Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.

The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.

The god excuse, the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument.

The words I use too often are X-rated, something an old man like me shouldn't be talking about anyway.

A man of the utmost insignificance.

You may try — but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and yet to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

Why do we travel to remote locations? To prove our adventurous spirit or to tell stories about incredible things? We do it to be alone amongst friends and to find ourselves in a land without man.

Without the story - in which everyone living, unborn and dead, participates - men are no more than bits of paper blown on the cold wind.

If there's reason for hope, it lies in man's occasional binges of cooperation. To save our planet, we'll need that kind of heroic effort, in which all types of people join forces for the common good

One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.

The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.

Each man has to work out his own understanding of what needs to be done, and then prepare himself to take advantage of the opportunity to succeed in a big way.

Remember, work, well done, does good to the man who does it. It makes him a better man.

My men can eat their belts, but my tanks have gotta have gas.

War is very simple, direct, and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct, and ruthless man to wage war.

My work is that of keeping every operation down (in size) so that the farmer and the man farthest down can get hold of it.

Man is a free agent; but he is not free if he does not believe it.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.

Jesus said, 'Except a man be born of water and of the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.' There are no exceptions. Baptism is a necessary ordinance.

Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.

Some tools of thought are so blunt that they are almost useless; others are so sharp that they are dangerous. But the wise man will have the use of both kinds.

I hear this song and I think, Man, this is ... great. This is the best I ever heard this. I forget I'm the one singing.

Everyone has some kind of philosophy, some general worldview, which to men of other views will seem mythological.

Our father in heaven governs the affairs of men by placing specific individuals upon the earth to lead at specific times and inspiring and directing them.

Selsdon Man is designing a system of society for the ruthlessness and the pushing, the uncaring. His message to the rest is: you're out on your own.

Men to whom God is dead worship one another.

No business, no movement, no activity on the part of man or a group of men can become any greater than the thinking minds and consciousness of the people who are back of the movement.

I'm letting no man handle my bank account.

Let every man feel that he is the architect and builder of his own life, and that he proposes to make a success of it by working.

You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

To a man, marriage means giving up four out of five of the chiffonier drawers; to a woman, giving up four out of five of her opinions.

This man dresses like an unmade bed.

The more humanity owes the poor man, the more society denies him.

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

A man may esteem himself happy when that which is his food is also his medicine.

The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

There is a higher law affecting our relation to pines as well as to men. A pine cut down, a dead pine, is no more a pine than a dead human carcass is a man.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Of all the things that man has made, no is so full of interest and charm, none possesses so distinct a life and character of its own, as a ship.