Men Quotes

Literature is man's exploration of man by artificial light, which is better than natural light because we can direct it where we want.

Who owns a man, Durnik?” the blond young man asked sadly. “The one who rules him, or the one who pays him?

Men don't change. They just learn to disguise the lack of change.

A staff can be no better than the man it serves.

It affords a violent prejudice against almost every science, that no prudent man, however sure of his principles, dares prophesy concerning any event, or foretell the remote consequences of things.

Art may make a suite of clothes, but nature must produce a man.

The quality I most admire in a man is steadfastness.

Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair.

The purpose of the church is to make bad men good and good men better.

I am certainly not a mainstream religious man.

It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements and then attack it editorially - like inviting a man to dinner then spitting in his eye.

If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?

It's one of the most fundamental desires of man, of being free and flying unhindered, and it really seems to go a lot with our founding fathers' principles of freedom.

Parades are man's attempt to make traffic exciting.

To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.

Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.

Every man should see the birth of his children

The man who claims he's never done anything courageous doesn't understand what courage really is.

If you don't love your fellow man, women, person, then you don't have anything. If you don't treat your neighbor as you would want to be treated that to me is the fundamental message.

Criticizing himself again, Sidgwick writes: I am not an original man: and I think less of my own thoughts every day.

If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more dangerous.

If a man holds a door open for me or pulls back a chair so that this old bag can sit down, I'm delighted. Women who moan and carp about that sort of thing are stupid

All too much of the man-made is ugly, inefficient, depressing chaos.

I dare to be great. The man without imagination stands unhurt and hath no wings. This is my credo, this is my forte.

Insects have their own point of view about civilization a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat.

I do not see why men sheould be so proud insects have the more ancient lineage according to the scientists insects were insects when man was only a burbling whatisit.

I have been a man of great sins, but He has been a God of great mercies; and now, through His mercies, I have a conscience as sound and quiet as if I had never sinned.

Putin is no different than any other powerful man, like a Senator, or a President.

I think men know to seduce women though words and conversation and nice gestures. That's much sexier than when a man uses muscle.

The holy man was the whole man, the man of integrity, who not only tried to change the world, but to live in it as it was.

Some have more capacity. Some proceed a few steps along the way. But Christ seemed to love all men. He desired all to be saved.

If we had had the privilege of giving hospitality to a Ho Chi Minh, with what respect and interest we would have served him, as a man of vision, as a patriot, a rebel against foreign invaders.

A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes.

It is ridiculous to take on a man's job just in order to be able to say that 'a woman has done it - yah!' The only decent reason for tackling a job is that it is your job and you want to do it.

all men are the same age.

...they discovered only a small asteroid inhabited by a solitary old man who claimed repeatedly that nothing was true, though he was later discovered to be lying.

There are few, if any, Canadian men that have never spelled their name in a snow bank.

The man who wins is the man who hangs on just five minutes longer after everyone else has quit.

A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that 'ancient institution' the old one.

A man, so to speak, who is not able to bow to his own conscience every morning is hardly in a condition to respectfully salute the world at any other time of the day.

My old geometry teacher called me and he was like yo man you need to start wearing a shirt. You're ruining my marriage.

For a time, the Flying Tigers provided the only victories against the Japanese anywhere in the Far East... This handful of men had shown that the Japanese were not invincible.

I used to say of him that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.

The only one who could ever reach me was the son of a preacher man.

The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.

When we find a man meditating on the words of God, my friends, that man is full of boldness and is successful.

You cannot find, I believe, a case in the Bible where a man is converted without God's calling in some human agency--using some human instrument.

No man ever sought Christ with a heart to find Him who did not find Him.

By the grace of God, I'll be that man.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night.