Men Quotes

There was no religious ceremony connected with marriage among us, while on the other hand the relation between man and woman was regarded as in itself mysterious and holy.

Every healthy man can do without food for two days — but without poetry, never!

But a dandy can never be a vulgar man

Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

I once met a man who had forgiven an injury. I hope some day to meet the man who has forgiven an insult.

Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.

Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.

An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.

Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.

It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge.

Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.

He was bolder in the daylight-most men are.

I looked at the stars, and considered how awful it would be for a man to turn his face up to them as he froze to death, and see no help or pity in all the glittering multitude.

Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!

Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail.

The Spirit never makes men the instruments of converting others until they feel that they cannot do it themselves; that their skill in argument, in persuasion, in management, avails nothing.

Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must.

It is man's destiny to ponder on the riddle of existence and, as a byproduct of his wonderment, to create a new life on this earth.

The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.

The life of an honest man must be a perpetual infidelity.

The good man has his enemies. He would not be like His Lord if he had not. If we were without enemies we might fear that we were not the friends of God, for friendship of the world is enmity to God.

All the hope of our ministry lies in the Spirit of God operating on the spirits of men.

No man is really saved unless he is in his heart obedient to Christ.

The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win

Man's wonder grows with his knowledge.

A man can preach no better than he prays.

All life is evolving, for evolution is God's law; and man grows slowly and steadily along with the rest.

Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes.

There are a lot of things in life way more important than money. All that said, some people do get confused. I play golf with a man who says, " What good is health? You can't buy money with it."

As the touchstone tries gold, so gold tries men.

It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live.

Give me a black man, a white woman, a giraffe, a zebra anything but another white man! That last one f***ed up my roof!

I think I was around 15 when my Dad was 40 and thought, "Man he's old. There's no way I'll be skating at that age."

I was the youngest kid. When I was five, my sisters were 17, 19, and 21, already becoming women. I would see how different they would be around one another and around men, even my father.

We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.

Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.

The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.

If a physician presumes to take into consideration in his work whether life has value or not, the consequences are boundless and the physician becomes the most dangerous man in the state.

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.

I travel light; as light, that is, as a man can travel who will still carry his body around because of its sentimental value.

If I was told to sacrifice something to prove my devotion to God, if I was told to do what all monotheists are told to do and admire the man who said 'Yes I'll gut my kid to show my love of God.'

Intellectuals never sound more foolish than when posing as the last civilised man.

The censure of a dog is something no man can stand.

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.

A caged canary is secure; but it is not free. It is easier for free men to resist terrorism from afar than tyranny from within.

I'm not interested in a good man's life. I'm interested in contradiction.

A woman can produce what no man can: a child.

How in this world can we put a man on the moon, and still have a need for a place like St. Judes?

Once a man has some money, peace begins to sound good to him.

He is the man who has been brought on to replace Pavel Nedved. The irreplaceable Pavel Nedved.