Men Quotes

Passion very often makes the wisest men fools, and very often too inspires the greatest fools with wit.

If a man doesn't find ease in himself, 'tis in vain to seek it elsewhere.

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acpuire it.

I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.

There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh.

Why do otherwise sane, competent, strong men, men who can wrestle bears or raid corporations, shrink away in horror at the thought of washing a dish or changing a diaper?

So, Arsenal have signed Arsene Wenger because his name sounds a bit like the club. How long before Man Utd sign Stefan Kuntz?

I learned to trust women's ears when it comes to hearing music a lot more than other men.

Men and nature must work hand in hand. The throwing out of balance of the resources of nature throws out of balance also the lives of men.

The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.

There's nothing a man can't do if the spirit's there.

A man with a dream of pleasure can go forth and conquer a crowd and three. With a new song's measure can trample a kingdom down.

Yet people in general will say they like colored men as well as any other, but in their proper place.

A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.

It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad.

No one is such a liar as the indignant man.

There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated

We ought to fear a man who hates himself, for we are at risk of becoming victims of his anger and revenge. Let us then try to lure him into self-love.

Men should learn to live with the same seriousness with which children play.

Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

Posthumous men-myself, for example-are not as well understood as timely ones, but we are listened to better. More precisely: we are never understood-hence our authority.

Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything!

Drowning men, it is said, cling to wisps of straw.

From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.

Personality in man is what is "not his own" . . . what come from outside, what he has learned, or reflects, all traces of exterior impressions left in the memory.

Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it?

Man is an imagining being.

We never know the timber of a man's soul until something cuts into him deeply and brings the grain out strong. You've the making of a mighty fine piece of furniture.

Man is a masterpiece of creation . . .

The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.

If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.

Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.

A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

This country was founded by a group of slave owners who told us that all men are created equal.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

No man can hope to find out the truth without investigation.

Man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind

There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance.

The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity.

To my mind, there are no unattractive women; only those who haven't been awakened by love . . . A woman is often like a strip of film-obliterated, insignificant-until a man puts the light behind her.

Every fellow is really two men -- what he is and what he might be; and you're never absolutely sure which you're going to bury till he's dead.

No man has the mind of Christ, except him who makes it his business to obey him.

One must choose between God and Man, and all "radicals" and "progressives", from the mildest liberal to the most extreme anarchist, have in effect chosen Man.

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

The Conservative Party mustn't sound like the old man on the park bench who says things were better in 1985, or 1955, or 1855.

Power resides only where men believe it resides. [...] A shadow on the wall, yet shadows can kill. And ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.

The years leech at a man's memories, even those he has vowed never to forget.

The courageous man is the man who forces himself, in spite of his fear, to carry on.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.