Men Quotes

Men of ideas and men of action have much to learn from each other, and the truly great are men of both action and abstraction.

When scrutiny is lacking, tyranny, corruption and man's baser qualities have a better chance of entering into the public business of any government.

Who was the fool, who the wise man, beggar or king? Whether poor or rich, all's the same in death.

There is nothing man desires more than a heroic life: there is nothing less common to men than heroism.

And let us remember too that life, in its exuberance, always succeeds in overflowing the narrow limits within which man thinks he can confine it.

A poet sees things in two ways: First, as a child who never saw it before, and Second, as a dying man who will never see it again.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.

My dad and I hunted and fished together. How could I get angry at this man who took the time to be with me?

Some men get the world, some men get ex-hookers and a trip to Arizona. You're in with the former, but my God I don't envy the blood on your conscience.

Conscience in the soul is the root of all true courage. If a man would be brave, let him learn to obey his conscience.

I look at the Christian Bale movies, the Batman films, and that shows you that superhero movies don't just have to be about men in tights.

The fool is looking for happiness far away. The wise man makes it grow under his feet.

No one so poignantly realizes the failures in the social structure as the man at the bottom, who has been most directly in contact with those failures and has suffered most.

for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.

If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out." -Elizabeth

Men make their own fates - it's personal, not a matter for debate.

The majority of women have no principles of their own; they are guided by the heart, and depend for their own conduct, upon that of the men they love.

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.

Kill one man and you're a murderer, kill a million and you're a conqueror.

One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god.

In order to dance well, nothing is so important as the turning outwards of the thigh; and nothing is so natural to men as the contrary position.

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

A glass of wine often makes me a better man than hearing a sermon.

All money represents theft… To steal from the rich is a sacred and religious act. While looting, a man to his own self is true.

I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I love having given birth.

In men whom men condemn as ill I find so much of goodness still, In men whom men pronounce divine I find so much of sin and blot, I do not dare to draw a line Between the two, where God has not.

You can't measure what's inside a man's heart.

Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others.

We can really respect a man only if he doesn't always look out for himself.

Few men have imagination enough for reality.

She was the kind of gal that if she set her sights on a man, he'd be running in the opposite direction real quick.

He who desires to become a spiritual man must not be ever taking note of others, and above all of their sins, lest he fall into wrath and bitterness, and a judging spirit towards his neighbours.

If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour ye can learn more from Him than ye could learn from Man in a thousand years.

I pray Heaven to bestow the best of Blessings on this House and on all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise Men ever rule under this roof.

It is evident that man never attains to a true self-knowledge until he has previously contemplated the face of God, and come down after such contemplation to look into himself.

It is not the self -critical who reveals his humility ( for does not everyone have some how to put up with himself? ). Rather, it is the man who continues to love the person who has criticized him.

I think it is a man's duty to make all the money he can, keep all that he can and give away all that he can.

Sometimes love can be so wrong/Like a fat man in a thong.

Men are born, and then they're formed.

Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him.

A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.

The chiefest action for a man of great spirit is never to be out of action... the soul was never put into the body to stand still.

Most Men are Cowards, all Men should be Knaves. The Difference lies, as far as I can see, Not in the thing it self, but the Degree.

A sucker don't ever catch on. A smart man don't ever sleep. He's got to keep ducking the traps.

The idea of blaming alcohol or drugs or quote-unquote "promiscuity" is a false path. The real issue is that men should not hurt women.

People talk about sexual assault like it's a bad habit that men have.

Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.

I have never pretended to be any kind of super-religious kind of man, but I feel very strongly that you can be funny without being dirty.