Men Quotes

Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

Age doesn't mean anything. Its all in your head. Men get sexier with age. They also get wiser and get experienced.

How can the world progress if women don't consider men ... the Man ... first?

You may know more about vintage wine than the wine steward, but if you're smart you'll let your man do the choosing and be ecstatic over his selection, even if it tastes like shampoo.

If you buy a man who is half dead, everybody may be happy off the field, but on the field you'll have major problems

It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope.

But he knew well enough that any man in the right circumstances could be dehumanised by panic.

All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.

It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.

No man can really succeed if he doesn't move away from where he was born. I believe it is particularly true for the writer.

Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man.

No man has ever praised to persons equally-and pleased them both.

Her beauty was sold for an old man's gold. She's a bird in a gilded cage.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.

There is a wide difference between the original thinker and the merely learned man.

As a general rule, the longer a man's fame is likely to last, the later it will be in coming; for all excellent products require time for their development.

From forty to fifty a man is at heart either a stoic or a satyr.

I am still the fastest man on earth.

No man is an island, but some of us are long peninsulas.

Man is the only 150 pound nonlinear servomechanism that can be wholly reproduced by unskilled labor.

Man is fallible, but maybe men are less so.

The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them, drawing and color are better or worse than in others.

Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations.

Oh, the cares of men! how much emptiness there is in human concerns!

It is pleasing to be pointed at with the finger and to have it said, "There goes the man." [Lat., At pulchrum est digito monstrari et dicier his est.]

Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement.

Every honest man lives for himself. Every man worth calling a man lives for himself. The one who doesn't - doesn't live at all.

The mind is the attribute of man. When man is born, he comes into existence with only one weapon with him--The reasoning mind.

Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him and only him (through his reasoning mind) to decide which he wants to be.

Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind, and a step that travels unlimited roads.

Self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think... The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind.

Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.

Justice and equity are twin Guardians that watch over men. From them are revealed such blessed and perspicuous words as are the cause of the well-being of the world and the protection of the nations.

If it's a woman it's caustic, if it's a man it's authority, If it's a woman it's too pushy, if it's a man it's aggressive in the best sense of the word.

A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.

A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.

Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.

Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.

I’m 59 and people call me middle aged. How many 118 year old men do you know?

Only free men are thoroughly grateful one to another.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

The idea of molding men means a lot to me.

I am not elevating women to sainthood, nor am I suggesting that all women share the same views, or that all women are good and all men bad.

In the perfect world every source could be identified, but like the man said, "It's not a perfect world."

What excellent fools religion makes of men.

Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.

Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.

Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.