Men Quotes

What a man sees in the human race is merely himself in the deep and honest privacy of his own heart. Byron despised the race because he despised himself. I feel as Byron did, and for the same reason.

A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.

What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut.

They do say that when a man starts down hill everybody is ready to help him with a kick, and I suppose it is so.

Why is it that, among men, physical courage is a trait so plenteous yet moral courage is a trait so rare?

If there is one thing that will make a man peculiarly and insufferable self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day at sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick.

I begin to see that a man's got to be in his own heaven to be happy.

Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.

It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man's needle that it is for any other foreigner to read the terrible German script.

The relationship between the make-up man and the film actor is that of accomplices in crime

A man has to be Joe McCarthy to be called ruthless . . . all a woman has to do is put you on hold.

The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man.

But now that the guerrilla fighting is over, the Spaniards are again men without a country or families or homes or work, though everyone appreciates very much what they did.

If we want the most effective fighting force, we need to pick the most qualified capable man for the job, even if it's a woman.

A woman who doesn't care what men think of her - ah, this is dangerous. This is the worst conceivable insult to the male ego.

There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.

No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.

A man does not climb a mountain without bringing some of it away with him, and leaving something of himself upon it.

Men scanning the surface count the wicked happy; they see not the frightful dreams that crowd a bad man's pillow.

I put the Scriptures above all the sayings of the fathers, angels, men and devils. Here I take my stand.

Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works.

Blessed is the man that hath not walked in the way of the Sacramentarians, nor sat in the seat of the Zwinglians, nor followed the Council of the Zurichers.

One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying.

In order to be true to one's conscience and true to God, a righteous man has no alternative but to refuse to cooperate with an evil system.

Nothing degrades a man do more than the allowed stoop so low as to hate someone

Even in the inevitable moments when all seems hopeless, men know that without hope they cannot really live, and in agonizing desperation they cry for the bread of hope.

I refuse to accept the idea that the “isness” of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal “oughtness” that forever confronts him.

Our age is one of guided missiles and unguided men.

A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.

Wise is the man who says what needs to be said, but not all that could be said.

That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.

Even one's yesterdays could not continue to stir and move in a man's mind unless there were a future for those yesterdays to make.

Responsiblity is the great developer of men.

The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind.

Men... look back on the children who were once themselves, and attempt to reconstruct them. But they can no longer think like the child.

Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.

Men were not equal in the effort they made, nor did equal efforts bring equal result. ... Equality of opportunity, yes. Equality of effort and result, no.

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

The Insignificance of Man is a congenial theme; my own insignificance is a sore point.

The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.

Don't have a cow, man.

I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me, Superman. Homer Simpson

Amy Pond, there's something you'd better understand about me 'cause it's important, and one day your life may depend on it: I am definitely a mad man with a box!

Man errs not that he deems His welfare his true aim, He errs because he dreams The world does but exist that welfare to bestow.

Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ and made an heir of heaven.

I am not the same man you found that day! The monster you've created has returned, to kill you!

The ultimate function of art is to make men do what they want to do, as it is to make them recognize what they know.

In that long sequence, when Lawrence enters in the desert to rescue a lost man, Lean listened the music I wrote and wanted to extend the scene to let my work stay completely.

The British electors will not vote for a man who does not wear a hat.

Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to confront them with their own great themes.