Men Quotes

No one is so wrong as the man who knows all the answers.

One of the first things to learn if you want to be a contemplative is to mind your own business. Nothing is more suspicious, in a man who seems holy, than an impatient desire to reform other men.

The world is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man sees it. It is a Temple of Majesty, yet no man regards it. It is a region of Light and Peace, did not men disquiet it. It is the Paradise of God.

If a wicked man seems to have peace at death, it is not from the knowledge of his happiness, but from the ignorance of his danger.

It's the arrogance of man to think that man can change the climate of the world. Only nature can change the climate. A volcano, for instance.

My wife called me a mule. She once said, "I didn't marry a man; I married a mule!" I kept thinking about it. It was in the back of my head. I think it makes a good title for an album.

I don't look as handsome in Men in Black II as I did in the first one.

The foundation of a man's duty as a man is in truth. Beyond this there is nothing to be said.

On every dishonest man, there are two watchmen, his possessions, and his way of living.

The Declaration of Independence states that the Creator gave man the right to liberty. It seems man can realize that liberty only if he does not forget the One who endowed him with it.

The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist.

At war a Russian man puts on a white shirt. He may live in sin, but he dies like a saint.

The Twelve Signs of the Zodiac represents the twelve lessons of human existence, the 12 qualities to be developed in the formation of the perfect man (and woman).

You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.

Love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.

Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide

Christ is more of an artist than the artists; he works in the living spirit and the living flesh, he makes men instead of statues.

I am always in the hope to express the love of two lovers by a marriage of two complementary colors - colors which marry each other... complement each other as a man and a woman do.

I also know that we must cultivate our garden. For when man was put in the Garden of Eden, he was put there ut operaretur eum, to work; which proves that man was not born for rest.

Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.

The most ordinary Negro is a distinct gentleman, but it takes extraordinary training and opportunity to make the average white man anything but a hog.

If you're anxious to shine in the high aesthetic line as a man of culture rare, you must get up all the germs of the transcendental terms, and plant them everywhere.

Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.

The great man is too often all of a piece; it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements. He is inexhaustible. You never come to the end of the surprises he has in store for you.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

Women are the best judges of anything we turn out. Their taste is very important. They are the theatergoers; they are the ones who drag the men in. If the women like it, to heck with the men.

In every case the storyteller is a man who has counsel for his readers.

Wealth comes from successful individual efforts to please one's fellow man ... that's what competition is all about: "outpleasing" your competitors to win over the consumers.

Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.

Three hundred men, each of whom knows all the other, govern the fate of the European continent, and they elect their successors from their entourage.

The werewolf is neither man nor wolf, but a satanic creature with the worst qualities of both.

If you have a great manager, you want to pay him very well.

My advice to a young man seeking deathless fame would be to espouse an unpopular cause and devote his life to it.

By the year 2000 we will undoubtedly have a sizable operation on the Moon, we will have achieved a manned Mars landing and it's entirely possible we will have flown with men to the outer planets.

When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a building. It gives you an empty feeling in the stomach to see such man-made devastation.

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard

You must judge a man's greatness by how much he will be missed.

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.

Give me a problem, I'll give you a solution. I just love living. That's a feeling you can't fake. I'm glad every single day. I think that even the camera can feel that I'm a happy man.

The word grace emphasizes at one and the same time the helpless poverty of man and the limitless kindness of God.

God only acts and is, in existing beings or men.

The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.

Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.

No man will ever be President of the United States who spells 'negro' with two gs.

Effort is a measure of a Man.

If God himself was not willing to use coercion to force man to accept certain religious views, man, uninspired and liable to error, ought not to use the means that Jehovah would not employ.

And part of growin’ up is learnin’ to see the world through other men’s eyes.

The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.

It cannot be too often or too forcibly brought home to us that the hope of the profession is with the men who do its daily work in general practice.