Men Quotes

She had always been too wise to tell him all she thought and felt, knowing by some intuition of her own womanhood that no man wants to know everything of any woman.

Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Patriotism is a salt against rottenness, a glorious spur to high endeavour; it recovers the half-obliterated virtue of loyalty, calls every man to service, and ennobles great and small alike.

When a man loves a woman, he'll spend his very last dime tryin' to hold on to what he needs.

The first business of a man of science is to proclaim the truth as he finds it, and let the world adjust itself as best it can to the new knowledge.

He who trusts himself for safety to the care of a wicked man, in seeking succor meets with ruin.

A woman's greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.

There are only two things that can destroy a healthy [hu]man: love trouble, ambition, and financial catastrophe. And that's already three things, and there are a lot more.

You can either be a con or a man—you can’t be both.

In our society, it's been the men who've handled most of the finances, and the women who've stood by and watched men botch things up.

If man ever comes to perfect equilibrium with the environment, we'll all be redundant, perhaps because you won't need art or letters.

Women are more difficult to handle than men. It's their minds.

Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.

If men were in charge of carrying and birthing our babies, we'd have a lot fewer people on Earth, because we'd only do it once- I can promise you that!

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

Dilemma of civilized man; body mobilized, but danger obscure.

A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!

This man called President Bush has a lot to answer for. I don't know if this man is really taking care of America. This government has been shameful.

Humanity is not perfect in any fashion; no more in the case of evil than in that of good. The criminal has his virtues, just as the honest man has his weaknesses.

It's fascinating to think that as soon as man came into existence, he started painting.

What divides men is less a difference in ideas than a likeness in pretensions.

All men in their hearts, I say, bear witness to these truths; they need only to be made to understand it.

When men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise.

When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories... The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

Let men of all ranks whether they are successful, or unsuccessful, whether they triumph or not; let them do their duty, and rest satisfied.

When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself.

For every man who has learned to fight in arms will desire to learn the proper arrangement of an army, which is the sequel of the lesson.

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

'But the man who is ready to taste every form of knowledge, is glad to learn and never satisfied - he's the man who deserves to be called a philosopher, isn't he?'

As there are misanthropists or haters of men, so also are there misologists, or haters of ideas.

That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless

Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.

To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.

Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.

Apothegms are the most infallible mirror to represent a man truly what he is.

Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.

Both Empedocles and Heraclitus held it for a truth that man could not be altogether cleared from injustice in dealing with beasts as he now does.

Man always travels along precipices... His truest obligation is to keep his balance.

He had seen too much of the cosmos to have any great faith in man's ability to understand it.

I lived a really wonderful life with this man and even after our divorce, it was incredible.

I am a little old fashioned. I believe that in a relationship a man and a woman are never equal.

Let each man have the wit to go his own way.

It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another.

Few men are born brave. Many become so through training and force of discipline.

Few things are necessary to make the wise man happy while no amount of material wealth would satisfy a fool. I am not a fool.

One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle.