Men Quotes

I was never a pipe or bong man. That's California stuff. I was an Eastern roller.

But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for which men drudge up city alleys exists already in their imagination and love.

But certain winds will make men's temper bad.

Women never really command until they have given their promise to obey; and they are never in more danger of being made slaves than when the men are at their feet.

The key to growth is quite simple: creative men with money. The cause of stagnation is similarly clear: depriving creative individuals of financial power.

This is what sexual liberation chiefly accomplishes-it liberates young women to pursue married men.

Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.

There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others.

Published memoirs indicate the end of a man's activity, and that he acknowledges the end.

What man is, only history tells.

But what a man can do and what a man will do are two different things, he knew.

No sane man is unafraid in battle, but discipline produces in him a form of vicarious courage.

If we aren't victorious, let no man come back alive!

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude itself is, in one sense, overcome.

...the number of saintly men has not yet risen to the level where the census makes them a separate statistical category.

Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man

Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men any more than fine feathers make fine birds.

You take that walk from the dressing room to the ring and that's when the real man comes out. Then you climb up those four stairs and into the ring. Then finally, you can't wait for the bell to ring.

I find it awfully difficult to determine if the habit of talking about oneself at length runs contrary to the basic rules of propriety, or if instead the man exempt from this vice is rare.

The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.

The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.

"Are you a devil?" "I am a man," answered Father Brown gravely; "and therefore have all devils in my heart."

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.

The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.

Men can be a great deal of work for very little reward.

Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.

...a distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man's imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.

Man is the only animal that knows he's going to die, so we invent a heaven to keep from going crazy. Most people are hypnotized by organized religion from childhood.

A man kept his character even when he was insane.

Rescuing dogs is looked upon as a noble, trendy pursuit. But wouldn't rescuing a man from a homeless shelter be, in fact, more humane?

I never met a man I could marry.

It is the large brain capacity which allows man to live as a human being, enjoy taxes, canned salmon, television, and the atomic bomb.

We are the state, and we shall continue to be the state until we have created the institutions that form a real community and society of men.

Our human nature is profoundly phototropic. Men obey their deepest instincts when they hold fast to light.

Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.

The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.

Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.

The cosmos is a gigantic flywheel making 10,000 revolutions per minute. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it.

A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.

The first kiss is stolen by the man; the last is begged by the woman.

In London there is a man who screams when the church bells ring.

Ah! If man would but see that hope is from within and not from without - that he himself must work out his own salvation.

Man's chief moral deficiency appears to be not his indiscretions but his reticence.

You know how a woman gets a man excited? She shows up.

Old muleskinners told how the mules were waiting at the shaft when they arrived each morning. They wanted relief from the heat, deerflies and mosquitoes just like the men.

I am a man who perceives life in a certain way, a man who rejects things that defecate on humankind, who rejects anything that will not give people room for dissent.

She sings the songs without words Songs that sailors, and blind men, and beggars have heard She knows more of love than the poets can say And her eyes are for something that won't go away.

We must build a new world, a far better world - one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.