Men Quotes

Men are more ready to offend one who desires to be beloved than one who wishes to be feared.

What society needs is broad men sharpened to a point.

Joining the Liberal Party was a no-brainer for me... And when you are a young man, you don't get a calculator out saying, 'Am I going to get to power?' You get propelled forward by idealism.

...self-consciousness is a man's worst enemy.

Today, I will vote in support of the Marriage Protection Amendment. I shall do so because like President Bush, I strongly believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman.

At the sight of what goes on in the world, the most misanthropic of men must end by being amused, and Heraclitus must die laughing.

Woman's weakness, not man's merit, oftenest gains the suitor's victory.

In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.

To cleave that sea [the Aegean] in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my mind the joy most apt to transport the heart of man into paradise.

Throughout my life, my greatest benefactors have been my dreams and my travels; very few men, living or dead, have helped me in my struggle.

It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

Well, I love fishing. I wouldn't kill a fly myself but I've no hesitation in killing a fish. A lot of men are like that. No bother. Out you come. Thump. And that's not the only reason.

Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.

The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.

The man who lives for himself is a failure; the man who lives for others has achieved true success.

Literature is a human apocalypse, man's revelation to man, and criticism is not a body of adjudications, but the awareness of that revelation, the last judgement of mankind.

Another of these strong silent men. The world is full of us.

The best poet is the man who delivers our daily bread: the local baker.

A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what he paints.

They are not men, they are not women, they are Americans.

Men are just like a book - with a beginning, middle and an end.

Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.

Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest. (Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.)

Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.

Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise.

I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past.

The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.

His grandfather had often told him that he tried too hard to move trees when a wiser man would walk around them.

When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.

Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.

I believe it, Chronicler found himself thinking. Before it was just a story, but now I can believe it. This is the face of a man who has killed an angel.

It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.

I'll work with Jerry Seinfeld any day of the week. Get a nice little paycheck there, but you do it for free. It's just good to be associated with that man. He's a great guy.

It will not fall away. Man cannot judge it. For art sings of God, and ultimately belongs to Him.

Most people like the sad songs. Some of the oldest songs known to man are sad. Listening to a voice singing something sad is a really great way to help you to feel sad when you need to.

The work of a man is the explanation of the man.

Few great men would have got past personnel.

If you can create even the illusion of high profitability for a few years, then when the thing collapses you can walk out of the wreckage a very rich man.

The philosophers of antiquity taught contempt for work, that degradation of the free man, the poets sang of idleness, that gift from the Gods.

The best thing I ever saw was a man who loved his wife.

Thousands of important and intelligent men have never been able to grasp the principle of comparative advantage or believe it even after it was explained to them

Man is a distance runner as a consequence of hundreds of thousands of years of chasing antelopes, horses, elephants, wild cattle, and deer.

Men ran after and ate horses for four hundred thousand years. The outcome is more than a love of horse flesh; it is a runner's body.

When men do not run they are likely to die prematurely from dysfunction of the heart and vascular systems or from disabling chronic disease.

... the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home.

Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.

Woe to the man who tries to remain objective and to maintain a wide perspective: every one will label him as an enemy.

A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.

Worpswede, Worpswede, I cannot get you out of my mind... Your magnificent pine trees! I call them my men--thick, gnarled, powerful, and tall--yet with the most delicate nerves and fibers in them.