Men Quotes

Man's experience is indeed a seamless garment, no part of which can be separated from the rest.

I've always had a sneaking fondness for Martin Van Buren. He wrote his autobiography, you know, and never once mentioned his wife. Now that's what I call a mans man.

Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth .

For most men, life is a search for the proper Manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

Beware the man who only has one gun. He probably knows how to use it!

Good manners on a man are like wearing an exquisite suit. They never go out of style

There is nothing worse than solitude. Solitude can help a man realize himself; but it destroys a woman

The mystical impulse in men is somehow a desire to possess the universe. In women, it's a desire to be possessed.

I can only approach it as a woman. Masculinity has been depicted in very black-and-white terms. There never seems to be a wide range of emotional definitions of men.

Heaven sends down its good and evil symbols and wise men act accordingly.

Clever talk and domineering manner have little to with being a Man at His Best.

A ruthless man extends his ruthlessness from those he does not love to those he loves.

Without goodness a man cannot endure adversity for long, nor can he enjoy prosperity for long. The good man is naturally at ease with goodness. The wise man cultivates goodness for its advantage.

The gentleman is calm and at ease. The gentleman is dignified but not proud; the small man is proud but not dignified.

There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth ... lust. When he is strong ... quarrelsomeness. When he is old ... covetousness.

The end of the day is near when small men make long shadows.

A man without persistence will never make a good shaman or a good physician.

When you see a good man, think of emulating him; when you see a bad man, examine your own heart.

The gentleman sees what is right while the small man sees what is profitable.

The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does.

The superior man, while his parents are alive, reverently nourishes them; and, when they are dead, reverently sacrifices to them. His thought to the end of his life is how not to disgrace them.

When the multitude detests a man, inquiry is necessary; when the multitude likes a man, inquiry is equally necessary.

Not to converse with a man worthy of conversation is to waste the man. To converse with a man not worthy of conversation is to waste words. The wise waste neither men nor words.

The superior man * * * in regard to his speech * * * is anxious that it should be sincere.

Baseball is wrong, man with four balls cannot walk

It wasn't until we got over the self pity that we were able to accept suffering as apart of our life with Christ. A man or woman reaches this plane only when he or she ceases to be the hero.

There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you like, and find someone to live with you like. Very few people get both.

Girls are not just put on earth for men's amusement while they do the important things.

There is a master way with words that cannot be learned but instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper.

The last thing a man becomes progressive about is the activities of his own wife.

All men are not slimy warthogs. Some men are silly giraffes, some woebegone puppies, some insecure frogs. But if one is not careful, those slimy warthogs can ruin it for all the others.

Men imitate the gods whom they adore, and to such miserable beings their crimes become their religion.

For how can a man stand, unless he have something sure under his feet. Can a man tread the unstable water all his life, and call that standing? Better give in and drown at once.

For God’s sake, let us be men not monkeys minding machines or sitting with our tails curled while the machine amuses us, the radio or film or gramophone. Monkeys with a bland grin on our faces.

The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I’ll do my best. But you’re right. We must rescue ourselves as best we can.

The purest lesson our era has taught is that man, at his highest, is an individual, single, isolate, alone, in direct soul-communication with the unknown God, which prompts within him.

Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.

Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.

Chaos was the natural law of the universe. Indifference was the engine of entropy. Man's apathy was the fertile ground in which the dark spirits tended their seeds.

If any young man wants to be a true temperance man let him go and get the delirium tremens, that'll settle it.

The expression working like a dog dates back to a time in America when men would rise early, then lie around all day and lick their balls.

Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.

The man is free who is protected from injury.

O foolish anxiety of wretched man, how inconclusive are the arguments which make thee beat thy wings below!

I don't take breaks, man, I'm always doing something.

Before men ever wrote in clay they cast their words in verse and line, rythymbound in poets' minds, defying time and age.

I care more about what God knows than what man says.

I hate men who are in touch with their feminine side.

Some men over-tweeze their eyebrows, and it's just too perfect. Men are meant to have kind of a bushy brow. Too much aftershave is also off-putting; it's one of my pet hates.

I believe man-made climate change is one of the most serious threats that this country and this world face.