Men Quotes

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

It is neither just nor human so to grind men down with excessive labour as to stupefy their minds and wear out their bodies.

There are few men who know how to go to their deaths with dignity, and often they are not those whom one would expect.

It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.

The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.

I'll play any man from any land any game he can name for any amount he can count…Provided I like it!

We ought not to quit our post without the permission of Him who commands; the post of man is life.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

Man's command of the language is most important. Next to kissing, it's the most exciting form of communication.

There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will.

I don't think any word can explain a man's life.

The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.

Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.

I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves and rarely understood others. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.

Let the man who does not wish to be idle, fall in love.

When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone broke them.

God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands.

Marriage is an institution that teaches a man regularity, frugality, temperance, forbearance and many other splendid virtues he would not need had he stayed single.

The man of control lives in choice, and the man of understanding lives in choicelessness.

Time, you old gipsy man, Will you not stay, Put up your caravan Just for one day?

When it is dark enough, men see the stars.

The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.

In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men.

The mark of a man of the world is absence of pretension.

Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one's Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.

If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none.

When men don't fear god, they give themselves to evil

As a man, there's a part of me that feels I should still be going out and doing a proper day's work.

Police business is a hell of a problem. It's a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there's nothing in it to attract the highest type of men.

There is no greater difference between men than between grateful and ungrateful people.

What happens in the mind of man is always reflected in the disease of his body.

I really believe that to have a full impression of Jesus, both as Christ as a man, you must know about the world that gave shape to him - the world out of which he arose.

Overvalue not therefore the manner of your own worship, and overvilify not other men's of a different mode.

As men, we all have something to give. We all have the power to do our own part to stop the global pandemic of violence against women and girls. It is holding us all back.

The men were wild as ourang-outans, and the women fit only to flog cattle.

My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early 20s. Like most young men, I was not particularly happy.

Every woman needs one man in her life who is strong and responsible. Given this security, she can proceed to do what she really wants to do-fall in love with men who are weak and irresponsible.

We hear the word Warrior used to describe women and men who show up, give their very best, and refuse to quit until the goal is reached.

A man who won't lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings.

We must win rulers; political, economic, scientific, artistic personalities. They are the engineers of souls. They mold the souls of men. Winning them, you win the people they lead and influence.

Men forget everything; women remember everything. That's why men need instant replay in sports. They've already forgotten what's happened.

I woke up in bed with a man and a cat. The man was a stranger; the cat was not

If you do not believe that a man will commit murder for one can of tomatoes, then you have never been hungry.

The happiest miser on earth is the man who saves up every friend he can make.