Men Quotes

A fool is one whom simpletons believe to be a man on merit. [Fr., Un fat celui que les sots croient un homme de merite.]

A man of moderate Understanding, thinks he writes divinely: A man of good Understanding, thinks he writes reasonably.

Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.

Art is the most frenzied orgy man is capable of.

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.

Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

In a word, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself.

Once freedom lights its beacon in man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

I can't believe how blessed I am! I'm married to the most wonderful man, Gene Raymond, whom I'm deeply in love with, and, my career is right where I want it to be. I can live like this forever!

I try my hardest to push the point that I am a feminist. I really think it's important that people know that the women in this industry are empowered. They run it, man. It's awesome.

Man, the feeling of the make is something that I can’t put to words, it’s the very best feeling in the world. I just chase that, it’s a very real feeling and straight up, I am addicted to it.

I used to hang out with Salvador Dali a lot. He was such a nice man. I really liked his wife Gala, too. People say that she was tricky, but she was never difficult with me.

Freedom is not free. Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.

I was the best man at the wedding... If I'm the best man, why is she marrying him?

I try to be the best man I can for the day.

Well. That's helpful. We'll put an APB out on the Gingerbread Man. I'm not hopeful it'll do us much good, though. Word on the street is you can't catch him.

FAY: The British police force used to be run by men of integrity. TRUSCOTT: That is a mistake which has been rectified.

Is man a savage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile Manners? Or is savagery but a faint taint in the natural man's gentility, which erupts now and again like pimples on an angel's arse?

The man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world.

The subject then of these chapters may be stated thus, - man's only righteousness is through the mercy of God in Christ, which being offered by the Gospel is apprehended by faith.

What one man can do is dream. What one man can do is love. What one man can do is change the world.

Published papers may omit important steps and the memory of men of science, even the greatest, is sadly fallible.

No man is an island unto himself.

For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts.

The unhappy man, who once has trail'd a pen, Lives not to please himself, but other men; Is always drudging, wastes his life and blood, Yet only eats and drinks what you think good.

Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.

When a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all regal powers, he then, in the single person of a man, fights against his own majesty and kingship.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.

Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.

The command to judge not is not a requirement to be blind, but rather a plea to be generous. Jesus does not tell us to cease to be men... but to renounce the presumptuous ambition to be God.

The moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary.

A man's not doing much until the cause he works for possesses all there is of him. Desire, when harnessed, is power.

the trouble with a woman standing behind her man is that she can't see where she is going!

All men would be cowards if they only had the courage.

If you're smart or rich or lucky Maybe you'll beat the laws of man But the inner laws of spirit And the outer laws of nature No man can

Man's memory shapes Its own Eden within

Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights. Noblesse oblige. 'To live as one likes is plebeian; the noble man aspires to order and law.'

In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy.

If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God.

No true manhood can be trained by a merely intellectual process. You cannot train men by the intellect alone; you must train them by the heart.

I desire to assist in attracting to this profession young men of character and ability, also to help those already engaged in the profession to acquire the highest moral and intellectual training

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

Every woman's man, and every man's woman.

I think a lot of men are afraid of pretty things, and I'm not, I like pretty songs.

No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.