Men Quotes

Man may live and man may die searching for the question why. But if he tries to rule the sky, he must fall.

Men date. Women have relationships.

I am sometimes more doubt than man.

Behold not with anger the sins of man, but forgive and cleanse.

History is made by masses of people. One man, or ten men, don't start the earthquakes and don't stop them either. Only hero worshipers and ignorant historians think they do.

We're told that men are strong & brave, but I think women know how to endure, accept defeat & bear physical & mental agony much better than men.

By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes to be his duty against the influences of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.

Let no man grumble when his friends fall off, As they will do like leaves at the first breeze; When your affairs come round, one way or t'other, Go to the coffee house, and take another.

I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation -- they are all better than us and their faults such as they are must originate with ourselves.

A proper secrecy is the only mystery of able men; mystery is the only secrecy of weak and cunning ones.

Hypocrisy is folly. It is much easier, safer, and pleasanter to be the thing which a man aims to appear, than to keep up the appearance of being what he is not.

I don't think women are better than men, I think men are a lot worse than women.

Any man can shoot a gun, and with practice he can draw fast and shoot accurately, but that makes no difference. What counts is how you stand up when somebody is shooting back at you.

No man ever raised a monument to a cynic or wrote a poem about a man without faith.

Luck comes to a man who puts himself in the way of it. You went where something might be found and you found something, simple as that.

I do not approve the maxim which desires a man to know a little of everything. Superficial knowledge, knowledge without principles, is almost always useless and sometimes harmful knowledge.

The perfect man? A poet on a motorcycle.

For it is an essential difference between capitalist and socialist production that under capitalism men provide for themselves, while under Socialism they are provided for.

It is a shame for a man to be a millionaire in possessions if he is not also a millionaire in beneficence.

The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.

Effeminate men intrigue me more than anything in the world. I see them as my alter egos. I feel very drawn to them. I think like a guy, but I'm feminine. So I relate to feminine men.

Give a man free hands, and you'll know where to find them.

I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them.

Let men see what's coming to them, and women will get what's coming to them.

Is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater courage? Without her, man would not be. If nonviolence is to be the law of our being, the future is with women.

The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.

It is of great advantage that man should know his station, and not imagine that the whole universe exists only for him.

A woman whom we need and who makes us suffer elicits from us a whole gamut of feelings far more profound and vital than a man of genius who interests us.

A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission.

If a man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

There's one thing my old man taught me and it's the best thing he taught me. It wasn't education at college or university – it was commonsense.

The important thing about women today is, as they get older, they still keep house. It's one reason why they don't die, but men die when they retire. Women just polish the teacups.

Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior

We are all honorable men here, we don 't have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers.

The man forget not, though in rags he lies, And know the mortal through a crown's disguise.

We have tried to fit man into abstraction, but he does not fit.

Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute.

Books are the liberated spirits of men.

in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.

There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.

on the whole the American theater, dominated by men, does not perceive women fighting for their lives as a central issue.

What is very little understood about the electronic age is that it angelizes man, disembodies him. Turns him into software.

For tribal man, space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

A man must completely despair of himself in order to become fit to obtain the grace of Christ.

Beer is made by men, wine by God.