Men Quotes

The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest.

It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.

Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.

No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.

Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull.

One difference between ants and humans is that while ants send their old women off to war, humans send their young men.

For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.

A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country

When a man diets, he eats oatmeal in addition to everything else he usually eats.

A religion that never suffices to govern a man will never suffice to save him; that which does not sufficiently distinguish one from a wicked world will never distinguish him from a perishing world.

Without a goal we are much like the man with a boat and nowhere to go. Goals give us the drive and energy we need to remain on track long enough for their accomplishment.

Feminists say 60 percent of the country's wealth is in the hands of women. They're letting men hold the other 40 percent because their handbags are full.

Man Made 'God' in his own image. The eternal, the infinate, the unnameable was reduced to a mental idol that you had to believe in and worship as 'my god' or 'our god'.

Palming separates the men from the boys!

Men of genius are far more abundant than is supposed. In fact, to appreciate thoroughly the work of what we call genius, is to possess all the genius by which the work was produced.

The best of all the preachers are the men who live their creeds.

Did I follow Truth wherever she led, And stand against the whole world for a cause, And uphold the weak against the strong? If I did I would be remembered among men.

His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen.

The value of books is proportionate to what may be called their plasticity -- their quality of being all things to all men, of being diversely moulded by the impact of fresh forms of thought.

Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.

All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.

Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.

I have some women friends but I prefer men. Dont trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.

Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.

I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I'm a patriot. A dangerous man.

Paradise for a happy man lies in his own good nature.

No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn sight better.

The folly of men not their hard heartedness was the great cause of the world s poverty.

Badly off as the men...were in your day, they were more fortunate than their mothers and wives.

Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great.

What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.

Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.

When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are.

A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation was formed for him.

The best and most important part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.

Dissimulation was his masterpiece; in which he so much excelled that men were not ashamed of being deceived but twice by him.

And if you voz to see my roziz As is a boon to all men's noziz, - You'd fall upon your back and scream - '" Lawk! O criky! it's a dream!"

No man can do a great and enduring work for God who is not a man of prayer, and no man can be a man of prayer who does not give much time to praying.

Pray for 'all men.' We usually pray more for things than we do for men. Our prayers should be thrown across their pathway as they rush in their downward course to a lost eternity.

By being faithful in that which is another man's, it qualifies you for that which is your own.

God made the senses turn outwards, man therefore looks outwards, not into himself. But occasionally a daring soul, desiring immortality, has looked back and found himself.

The legend of the jungle heritage and the evolution of man as a hunting carnivore has taken root in man's mind ... He may even believe that equal pay will do something terrible to his gonads.

My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions.

No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.

A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.

There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.

What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.