Men Quotes

My fondest hope is that 'Roots' may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall.

I've really actually grown with my girlfriends and the people that they've introduced me to and the way that I've been welcomed in by their families. I'm a very, very lucky man.

Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.

It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.

It is a fallacy of the old schools to divide man into parcels, elements, thoughts, emotions, intuitions, etc. All human faculties consist of an interconnected whole.

Who loves not Knowledge? Who shall rail Against her beauty? May she mix With men and prosper! Who shall fix Her pillars? Let her work prevail.

The highest spiritual quality, the noblest property of mind a man can have, is this of loyalty.

I wouldn't call my work Modernist. I would rust if I try to think about labels. I'd feel like the Tin Man in 'The Wizard of Oz.

You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.

Abortion, for many women, is more than an experience of suffering beyond anything most men will ever know, it is an act of mercy, and an act of self-defense.

Don't let two men fall in love with you, girls. It's not the sort of thing that ends well." -Uncle Charles

The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forebearance among men.

God is man idealized.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.

I have always known that writing fiction had little effect on the world; that if it did, young men would not have gone to war after The Iliad.

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.

I am already inherently full and complete as I am. Man doesn't need woman and woman doesn't need man in order to experience his or her inherent fullness.

You don’t need to marry a man with millions. You only need to be your exquisite self.

At first, I felt proud when someone said 'Your work looks like a man did it.' Then I realized that was stupid

An Eskimo shaman said, Life's greatest danger lies in the fact that man's food consists entirely of souls.

For a certain type of woman who risks losing her identity in a man, there are all those questions . . . until you get to the point and know that you really are living a love story.

I like the idea of being the funny guy in the dramatic thing, playing a hit man with a weird sense of humor.

Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.

Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.

One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.

The only prayer which a well-meaning man can pray is, O ye gods, give me whatever is fitting unto me!

An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.

The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

A bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast.

A city is composed of different kinds of men; similar people cannot bring a city into existence.

.. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition.

The misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god.

Men become builders by building and lyreplayers by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

A sad man, is man with the lights turned off.

Astronomy, as nothing else can do, teaches men humility.

If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

It takes only one man to make an artist, but forty to make an Academician.

In man, the mechanical breathing is essential to life, and it is one of the old tests for death to see whether these movements have ceased completely.

Each man has in him the potential to realize the truth through his own will and endeavour and to help others to realize it.

The mark of an honest man... is that he means what he says and knows what he means.

Living in a society, instead of on a desert island, does not relieve a man of the responsibility of supporting his own life.

The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.

I am a man who does not exist for others.

You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences.

Every period ruled by mystics was an era of stagnation and want, when most men were on strike against existence.

Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism... Resist growing up!