Men Quotes

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.

It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft.

Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence.

If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

England expects every man to do his duty

It's okay for a man to commit adultery if his wife is ugly.

I think if more people would understand how simple and what really feminism is, I would imagine that most men I know are feminists without verbalising or saying so.

Hamlet is every man's self-love with all its dreams realized. He wears all the crowns and carries every cross.

Prayer is so mighty an instrument that no one ever thoroughly mastered all its keys. They sweep along the infinite scale of man's wants and God's goodness.

Negative feedback is better that none. I would rather have a man hate me than overlook me. As long as he hates me I make a difference.

You cannot hope to bribe or twist, thank God! The British journalist. But seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no occasion to!

I am a road man for the lords of karma.

As I see it then, the formula runs something like this: a man must choose a path which will let his ABILITIES function at maximum efficiency toward the gratification of his DESIRES.

Jesus man! You don't look for acid! Acid finds you when it thinks you're ready.

Genghis Khan was a fascinating man and way ahead of his time.

Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch.

Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

I had no desire to crash a man's world.

My final comment is that I still believe this man [John D. Rockefeller] is corrupt and he used unfair ways to become wealthy, all he cared about was his money and wasn't considered.

The genius is the man who has genuine and deep human relations with others, who does not cut himself off in the search for originality, but who realizes the value of artistic tradition.

For too long, the U.S. has been operating upon the premise that American men and matériel should be capable of reaching and controlling all corners of the world. This was a bully’s universe.

A lie is the abandonment and, as it were, the annihilation of the dignity by man.

Suppose Cartier-Bresson asked the man who jumped the puddle to do it again --- it never would have been the same. Start stealing!

Men are vain; but they won't mind women working so long as they get smaller wages for the same job.

A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.

Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.

As a stick, when once it is dry and stiff you may break it, but you can never bend it into a straighter posture; so doth the man become incorrigible who is settled and stiffened into vice.

Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing.

Beware of the man of one book. [Lat., Home unius libri, or, cave ab homine unius libri.]

A nickname a man may chance to wear out; but a system of calumnity, pursued by a faction, may descend even to posterity. This principal has taken full effect on this state favorite.

I've never hanged a man. It is the law that has done it.

What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?

Man and woman are two locked caskets, of which each contains the key to the other.

I'm sure that you could go back and make a graph showing that all the killings of black males increased in times of economic difficulty. As a matter of fact, a black man was lynched last year.

The unlettered man who prayed to his maker would be heard; the pedant reciting a faultless invocation would be ignored.

Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.

It was wisely said, by a man of great observation, that there are as many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them.

Lord, what music hast thou provided for Thy saints in heaven, when Thou affordest bad men such music on earth!

He that would be conformed to Christ's image, and become a Christ-like man, must be constantly studying Christ Himself.

Persecution, in short, is like the goldsmith's stamp on real silver and gold - it is one of the marks of a converted man.

True faith will always show itself by its fruits . . . I suspect that, with rare exceptions, men die just as they have lived.

Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power.

In magic, man has to rely on himself. So, in religion, of course, you're looking for outside support but that's the appeal of magic.

No matter how brilliant a man may be, he will never engender confidence in his subordinates and associates if he lacks simple honesty and moral courage.

A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one.

Man lowers his head and lunges into civilization, forgetting the days of his infancy when he sought truth in a snowflake or a stick. Man forgets the wisdom of the child.

I feel that any man that tries, any man that comes out with something we like, is a good man. A man doesn't have to be Leonardo Da Vinci to be sincere.

I feel like an independent man, and I am. This is the kind of feeling I always wanted. You can rarely get that... Well, I could rarely get that in the early part of my life.