Men Quotes

A man who has no love in him is as barren as a cloud with no moisture, a tree with no fruits or a cow yielding no milk; he is ever far from God and can never earn His Grace.

The man who thinks only of his own generation is born for few.

Golden roofs break men's rest.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat.

Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.

Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man.

Nothing had excited me-the huge cars, the entourages, the bodyguards, the policeman jumping to attention, all meant nothing to me ... till I came to the old man's office. (On becoming prime minister)

Learning is not a task or a problem-it is a way to be in the world. Man learns as he pursues goals and projects that have meaning for him.

It is unavoidable that if we learn more about a great man's life, we shall also hear of occasions on which he has done no better than we, and has in fact come nearer to us as a human being.

A man gains no possession better than a good woman, nothing more horrible than a bad one.

When all desires of heart die, mortal man becomes Immortal.

Be for ever a student. He and he alone is an old man who feels that he has learnt enough and has need for no more knowledge.

When I turned 16, I thought I was a man. I needed the money. When you don't have it, crazy thoughts go through your mind.

No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution of body nor knowledge of mind.

I call that man idle who might be better employed.

The only thing my old man ever gave me was a beating.

A fearful man is always hearing things.

Man in the world's life works out the dreams of God.

You will do very well to refuse offices; for a man seldom fails to give offense in them. It ought to weary you simply to hear them mentioned.

Man is fatally slow on the uptake; it always takes him until the next generation to understand what's going on.

A man who for an entire week does nothing but hit himself over the head has little reason to be proud.

Had the employers of past generations all of them dealt fairly with their men there would have been no unions.

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. If it can be written or thought, it can be filmed.

Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.

Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.

It was not well to drive men into final corners; at those moments they could all develop teeth and claws.

You cannot condemn a man for what may only be a figment of your own imagination.

Sometimes a man and a woman reach a crossroads and linger there, reluctant to take either way, knowing the wrong choice will mean the end... and knowing there’s so much worth saving.

How is a man fortunate to live in the darkness, brother?" "Why do you wonder?" asked Blaise. "For only he who has lived in darkness truly knows and values the light.

In all fields black consciousness seeks to talk to the black man in a language that is his own

I believe very confidently in the truth of Scripture, where it says that there is no authority, no power given to man except as given by God.

Always attack. Even in defense, attack. The attacking arm possesses the initiative and thus commands the action. To attack makes men brave; to defend makes them timorous.

The sea was angry that day my friend, like an old man trying to send back soup at a deli.

He is cautious. He ought to be. But he is NOT slow. Lee is a phenomenon. He is the only man whom I would follow blindfolded.

For some high-profile men in trouble, women, especially feminist women, became the all-purpose scapegoats-charged with crimes that often descended into the absurd.

I don't care how far we've come with "women's liberation," with all these things. In a man's mind, he still needs to be the support of his family. He needs to hold up the world.

Brave, bold men, these are what we want. What we want is vigour in the blood, strength in the nerves, iron muscles and nerves of steel, not softening namby-pamby ideas.

Man never dies, nor is he ever born; bodies die, but he never dies.

Women will work out their destinies — much better, too, than men can ever do for them. All the mischief to women has come because men undertook to shape the destiny of women.

Men who retain irony are not to be trusted. They can't always resist an impulse to tickle themselves.

A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime.

If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.

Needless to say, they refused to submit to the Empire, conducting such a persistent guerrilla war that the Romans gave up hope of conquering Scotland, and the Wee Free Men remained both wee and free.

For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man’s wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.

The Enlightenment has always aimed at liberating men from fear and establishing their sovereignty. Yet the fully enlightened earth radiates disaster triumphant.

If a man continually blusters, if he lacks civility, a big stick will not save him from trouble, and neither will speaking softly avail, if back of the softness there does not lie strength, power.

Not to be born at all would be the best thing for man.

Alcmaeon was the first to define the difference between man and animals, saying that man differs from the latter in the fact that he alone has the power of understanding.

Every man should own a navy cashmere jacket with gold buttons, a grey suit, black shoes shoes for the city, brown shoes for elsewhere. Everything else should be simple and really well made.