Men Quotes

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him.

Better is the man of humble standing that works for himself than one who plays the great man but lacks bread.

Many evil men are rich, and good men poor, but we shall not exchange with them our excellence for riches.

There is no better love potion than a coffee. When a man drinks the coffee made by you he will become forever yours.

I made three works about men in my life. But I had much more than three men. I never wrote about them.

For most men friendship is a faithless harbor.

Faith is the highest passion in a man.

Great women and men are always more anxious to serve than to have dominion.

You're constantly changing man. But the film's not changing. The film stays the same. That's the beautiful aspect of it.

I'm just an old man and I smell bad, remember?

Men who just call to say hello generally have ulterior motives.

The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.

Since therefore all things are ordered in subserviency to the good of man, they are so ordered by Him that made both man and them.

Men respect women who have standards - get some!

...a young man, Jamaican, perhaps, his head circled in a scarf with sunbleached dreadlocks on piled on top, looking like a plate of soft-shell crabs.

Demons run when a good man goes to war.

A woman should never, never, never be financially dependent to anyone, especially a man, because the minute you were dependent, you could be abused.

Knowledge of the enemy's dispositions can only be obtained from other men.

White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages.

If you are pure, if you are strong, you, one man are equal to the whole world.

Man makes the mistake of separating himself from God and identifying himself with the body.

The happiest is the man who is not at all selfish.

Man is born to conquer nature and not to follow it.

So long as the millions live in hunger and ignorance, I hold every man a traitor who, having been educated at their expense, pays not the least heed to them.

The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm

They taught me that no man could be their leader except he ate the ranks' food, wore their clothes, lived level with them, and yet appeared better in himself.

Old men ought to be explorers.

[To the man who came up to her at a party and exclaimed effusively, 'Tallulah! I haven't seen you for 41 years!':] I thought I told you to wait in the car.

Every man sees a little of himself in Rhett Butler.

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.

There is no power on earth that can loosen a man's grip on his own throat

It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized — that men become fully human.

The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.

Weasel words from mollycoddles will never do when the day demands prophetic clarity from greathearts. Manly men must emerge for this hour of trial.

A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace.

Whatever things a man gives up, By those he cannot suffer pain.

For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step.

Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.

I start where the last man left off. What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of a man can achieve.

Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.

Whatever sin the heart of man is most prone to, that the devil will help forward.

Look, as a painted man is no man, and as painted fire is no fire, so a cold prayer is no prayer.

For if all things were equally in all men, nothing would be prized.

Every man may think his own cause just till it be heard and judged.

I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man.

Most men die at age 25, but aren't buried until 70.

Every man has two countries: his own and France.

The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend to all the happiness of man.