Men Quotes

The entire banking movement, at all crucial stages, was centralized in the hands of a few men who for years were linked, ideologically and personally, with one another.

A woman's flexibility and a man's strength . . . put them together and you'll have a body like mine.

All women are inferior to men.

Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?

If a man can control his body and mind and thereby refrains from eating animal flesh and wearing animal products, I say he will really be liberated.

If by leaving a small pleasure one sees a great pleasure, let a wise man leave the small pleasure, and look to the great.

It is impossible for a man who is bogged to extricate another who is bogged.

I do not like assassins, or men of low character.

I was fortunate enough to work under directors who were, most of them, brilliant, emotional men.

Evolution teaches us the original purpose of language was to ritualize men's threats and curses, his spells to compel the gods; communication came later.

With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

In 1688 England contracted to the Netherlands the highest debt that one nation can owe to another. Herself not knowing how to recover her liberties, they were restored by men of the United Provinces.

Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever.

It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.

Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.

In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.

A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine.

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth.

A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.

The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood

What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.

An ingenious web of probabilities is the surest screen a wise man can place between himself and the truth.

The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men

All men are enemies. All animals are comrades

A fat man is never so happy as when he is describing himself as "robust.

There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word-- Man

A real man will never let his fear of death overpower his honor, his sense of duty to his country, and his innate manhood.

My men don't surrender. I don't want to hear of any soldier under my command being captured unless he has been hit. Even if you are hit, you can still fight back.

In my sentences I go where no man has gone before.

It is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws.

By the care she lavishes on her toilet, by the concern she has for her beauty set off by her adornment, a woman regards herself as an object always trying to attract men's attention.

Catherine Deneuve is the man I've always wanted to be.

We live in our language like blind men walking on the edge of an abyss. This language is laden with future catastrophes. The day will come when it will turn against those who speak it.

Men seldom act from a correct sense of what may be harmful or useful to them.

The center of every man's existence is a dream.

The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world... The reason is obvious. In a large community we can choose our companions. In a small community our companions are chosen for us.

We get so caught up in what a man isn't. It's what he is that counts.

Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or woman President everything will be all right. But it won't be.

Being in a rock n' roll band was like being in a Sherman tank. Nothing got to you. You were surrounded and protected by men.

Many men think they're playboys but they invariably land wide of the mark. Surrounding yourself with champagne, fast friends and paid escorts is the very definition of the word 'loser'.

I would say there's a lot of similarity between folk and punk. It's written for the common man.

In any relationship, the woman has control, the clever ones don't let the men know.

I think women are sexy when they got some clothes on. And if later they take them off then you've triumphed. Somebody once said it's what you dont see you're interested in, and this is true.

I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young... he killed himself in the prime of his life.

Lies are the mortar that binds the savage individual man into the social masonry.

It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.