Men Quotes

I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.

O, how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors.

If he be so resolved, I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear That unicorns may be betrayed with trees And bears with glasses, elephants with holes, Lions with toils, and men with flatterers

This is emphatically an age of discoveries; but I will venture the assertion, that none but an American slaveholder could have discovered that a man born in a country was not a citizen of it.

A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.

We are serving no one man, we are serving our country.

Mr. Chamberlain loves the working man, he loves to see him work.

The only guide to man is his conscience.

In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.

The sage embraces things. Ordinary men discriminate amongst them and parade their discriminations before others. So I say; those who discriminate, fail to see.

The Way is to man as rivers and lakes are to fish, the natural condition of life.

Men do not mirror themselves in running water - they mirror themselves in still water. Only what is still can still the stillness of other things.

There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man's spice-box seasons his own food.

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It's what men have kept secret for so long.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

No matter what dimension you're in, there's a big-headed male trying to take over the world.

A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.

Even if there were only two men left in the world and both of them saints they wouldn't be happy. One them would be bound to try and improve the other. That is the nature of things.

Men, in general, are a sort of scum, very different to anything of which you have an idea.

Although I'm sure there are plenty of tall, gorgeous, life-of-the-party guys who are also true to their wives, I happen to believe that a disproportionate number of them are cheaters.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.

All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

Remember that the good angels do what they can to preserve men from sin and obtain God's honor. But they do not lose courage when men fail.

I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor.

I like jealous men. I love jealousy. I do.

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them.

Within the hearts men, loyalty and consideration are esteemed greater than success.

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers.

At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men.

Nature is about balance. All the world comes in pairs - Yin and Yang, right and wrong, men and women; whats pleasure without pain?

Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits.

We need to see men and women as equal partners, but its hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!

Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.

The men and women who are truly filled with light are those who have gazed deeply into the darkness of their own imperfect existence.

There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams.

I think the fallacy is to think that Women's Liberation meant that men and women would become interchangeable. That has not happened, and most men and women would not want it to happen.

The great man is sparing in words but prodigal in deeds.

If this world is going to be reached, I am convinced that it must be done by men and women of average talent.

Behind each great man, there's a Richard Delisle.