Men Quotes

The circus a place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.

MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be.

For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it.

Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.

Japanese women live in fear of making the least sound in a bathroom stall. Japanese men pay no attention to the subject whatsoever.

Whether a man is a legend or not is decided by history, not fortune tellers.

Every decent man had to be against fascism, period.

Some very plausible stuff is being written by women in a way that most men are not doing.

I think a woman can have all of the ideas and mental pictures. She can be a real planner and a motivator. But in the end, I think a woman does best when she responds to a man.

What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.

The atmosphere of Venus consists of ammonia, sulfur, and nitric oxide. Man must have lived there once.

Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.

One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.

Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann represent an existential threat to the Democratic Party the way that twenty years ago Clarence Thomas as a black man represented to liberals and the Democratic Party.

There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it

In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man.

As an adolescent, Spider-Man was what got me through tough times in terms of being a skinny kid.

Be he the first to stand or the last, a man must stand," the father had told his adoring son. "And if there is only one man, then that man must stand alone." ~Thomas to Bruce Wayne

A man should have a right to be religious if he wants to. The government should not be involved in those decisions.

In 1973 we moved to the British Isle of Man, and I put my first band together for one year, named Melody Fair.

I'm very fond of doing movies where men fight over me. I don't get to do enough.

If a thing is right it can be done, and if it is wrong it can be done without; and a good man will find a way.

Satan, that great angler, hath his sundry baits for sundry tempers of men, which they all catch greedily at, but few perceive the hook till it be too late.

I wrote 'The story of O' alone, for Dominique Aury, to interest him, to please him, to occupy him. I wasn't young, nor particularly pretty. I needed something which might interest a man like him.

Debauchery conceived of as a kind of ascetic experience is not new, either for men or for women, but until Story of O no woman to my knowledge had said it.

I come to the point of using steel, and simply cannot. It's like the marriage proposal of a perfectly eligible man who just isn't loveable. It is wood I love.

Never yet was a nation born that did not begin in the spirit, pass to the heart and the mind, and then take an outer form in the world of men.

The man who worships mere wealth is a snob.

One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.

Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.

Mind is the partial side of men; the heart is everything.

That which happens to the soil when it ceases to be cultivated by the social man happens to man himself when he foolishly forsakes society for solitude; the brambles grow up in his desert heart.

The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.

No man can ever raise above that that which he aims.

He, general or mere captain, who employs every one in the storming of a position can be sure of seeing it retaken by an organized counterattack of four men and a corporal.

No man who is in a hurry is quite civilised.

The brave man, if he be compared with the coward, seems foolhardy; and, if with the foolhardy man, seems a coward.

A man who examines each subject from a philosophical standpoint cannot neglect them: he has to omit nothing, and state the truth about each topic.

. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.

The bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself.

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.

It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.

... the good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of virtue than one, in accordance with the best and most perfect kind.

God’s love for the biggest sinner is greater than the love of the holiest man for God

What one man can invent, another can discover.

If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress.

When any creativity becomes useful, it is sucked into the vortex of commercialism, and when a thing becomes commercial, it becomes the enemy of man.

A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn't he?

If a man seriously proposes to go in for lifting heavy weights, he should make a point of practising certain lifts every day. This daily practice is essential to the achievement of any real success.