Men Quotes

We are all looking for something of extraordinary importance whose nature we have forgotten; I am writing the memoirs of a man who has lost his memory.

Dalmatians are not only superior to other dogs, they are like all dogs, infinitely less stupid than men.

Every man, woman and child holds the possibility of physical perfection; it rests with each of us to attain it by personal understanding and effort.

The man who prays grows, and the muscles of the soul swell from this whipcord to iron bands.

A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.

No. What would I look like fighting for equality with the white man? I don't want to go down that low. I want the true democracy that'll raise me and that white man up raise America up.

Being a comedian is like being a con man. You have to make 'em like you before you can fool 'em.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.

There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.

If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.

The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.

Men frequently do good only to give themselves opportunity of doing ill with impunity.

There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.

A man was the cause of it all. An unarmed man with a weapon.

Man cannot live without a continuous confidence in something indestructible within himself.

In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world.

I recognize the Republican Party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.

A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.

It is not truth, justice, liberty, that men seek; they seek only themselves. - And oh, that they knew how to seek themselves aright!

Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be man!

Man is very well defended against himself... The actual fortress is inaccessible, even invisible to him, unless his friends and enemies play the traitor and conduct him in by a secret path.

The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account whatever.

The most unambiguous sign that a person holds men in low esteem is this, that he either acknowledges them merely as means to his ends or does not acknowledge them at all.

A labyrinthine man never seeks the truth, but only his Ariadne.

Man is an imitative creature.

Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter; is he not also the only one that deserves to be laughed at?

Yes, that's right... love should come before logic ... Only then will man come to understand the meaning of life.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

My way is to develop the hidden potentialities of man; a way that is against Nature and against God.

What Australia was before is the fullest Australia has ever been... as created and made and valued by indigenous people. The white man came here and took it away, took it away and replaced it.

Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons.

If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure.

The ignorant man is an ox. He grows in size, not in wisdom.

Until he has unconditional and unbiased love for all beings, man will not find peace.

Every man should be allowed to love two cities, his own and San Francisco

I know that you like to see a man in the kitchen, but I'm skeptical of men who cook. A man should be focusing his attention on the woman, and not what's on the stove.

Meekness is the mark of a man who has been mastered by God.

Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.

God... God...dear Father in heaven, I'm not a praying man, but if you're up there and you can hear me, show me the way. I'm at the end of my rope. Show me the way, God...

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men never learn anything from history.

The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.

Now, in my opinion, a woman has no business with Power-Power admits no equal, and dismisses friendship for flattery. Besides, it keeps the men at a distance, and that is not always what we wish.

To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.

Man lives in a world of meaning.

Man's greatest drive is not love or hate but to change another person's writing.

Great things have been effected by a few men well conducted.

Language is the main instrument of man's refusal to accept the world as it is.

Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God.