Men Quotes

It isn't polls or public opinion at the moment that counts. It is right and wrong and leadership--men with fortitude, honesty, and a belief in the right that makes epochs in the history of the world.

There comes a time in every man's life when he is either going to go fishing or do something worse.

It is a presumption on the part of man when he demands in words an explanation of God.

My friend Kurt Maix once described this diffidence as Fear's friendly sister, the right and necessary counterweight to that courage that urges men skyward, and protects them from self-destruction.

Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.

men never would share power with women willingly. If we wanted it, we would have to take it.

Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.

I love men that love women. Morgan Freeman, who I worked with on 'RED,' was very flattering to me. But he is flattering to all women. He is a woman-charmer.

It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.

A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little 'personal characteristics.'

When a man makes a woman his wife it's the highest compliment he can pay her – and usually it's the last.

A man's ideal woman is the one he couldn't get.

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.

One can paint with two colors, and draw with one. Three, or four at most, have for centuries been enough men.

The man-at-arms is the only man.

Every man should have a fair-sized cemetary in which to bury the faults of his friends.

If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intent of doing you good, you should run for your life.

The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode.

The universe expects every man to do his duty in his parallel of latitude.

For a man needs only to be turned around once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost...Not 'til we are lost do we begin to find ourselves.

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile.

Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.

Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.

Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.

How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of it.

No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower than himself.

That is the best baptism that leaves the man cleanest inside.

Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement.

Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.

The men who succeed are the efficient few.

If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor - poor in happiness, poor in all that makes life worth living.

There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements which a still-lingering savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more in harmony with the character of the ideal man.

One who hates is a man holding a magnifying-glass, and when he hates someone, he knows precisely that person's surface, from the soles of his feet all the way up to each hair on the hated head

A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.

I will not reach my full potential as a man unless I find my partner.

A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.

I would rather be a serf in a poor man's house and be above ground than reign among the dead.

Whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.

Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.

He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.

The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.

Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.

Imaginative, sanguine men will never recognize that in negotiations the most dangerous moment of all is when everything is moving according to their wishes.