Men Quotes

She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.

When Harvard men say they have graduated from Radcliffe, then we've made it.

To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man.

I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.

No one knows where we are going, the aim of life has been forgotten, the end has been left behind. Man has set out at tremendous speed- to go nowhere.

Imagination is a very precise thing, you know - it is not fantasy; the man who invented the wheel while he was observing another man walking - that is imagination!

God is growing bitter, He envies man his mortality.

As they say, when a man begins to have bad luck, even clabber can break his head.

Buoyed by water, he can fly in any direction - up, down, sideways - by merely flipping his hand. Under water, man becomes an archangel.

For a man not to achieve the things he has an opportunity to do is such a waste of life.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.

I have seen many a bear led by a man: but I never before saw a man led by a bear.

If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing.

Good and evil keep very exact accounts... and the face of every man is their ledger.

Rose: But now you know there was a man named Jack Dawson and that he saved me... in every way that a person can be saved

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.

The best advice I can give to any young man or young woman upon graduation from school can be summed up in exactly eight words, and they are-be honest with yourself and tell the truth.

To try to make men equal by altering social arrangements is like trying to make the cards of equal value by shuffling the pack.

All the strength and force of man come from his faith in things unseen.

Man has created gods in his own likeness and being himself mortal he has naturally supposed his creatures to be in the same sad predicament.

A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset.

What is the life of a man more than the life of a lamb, or any guiltless animal?

Every physical quality admired by men in women is in direct connection with the manifold functions of women for the propagation of the species.

When a man is born...there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.

Avisitor from Mars contemplating a man in a frock coat and top hat and a woman in a crinoline might well have supposed that they belonged to different species.

We found that when people put this issue on the table, it turns out that men acknowledge the issue, and employers and employees can work out solutions just as working mothers do.

There's only one man I've called a coward, and that's Brian Doyle-Murray.

Every man who is high up likes to think he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that.

A gun is like breath to a drowning man--it has to be drawn in haste.

No man can be a competent legislator who does not add to an upright intention and a sound judgment a certain degree of knowledge of the subject on which he is to legislate.

I go by the great republican principle, that the people will have the virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and wisdom [to the offices of government].

Man's the bad child of the universe

They can only set free men free... And there is no need of that: Free men set themselves free.

One of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house. A man's house is his castle.

A man is accountable to no person for his doings.

Stern men with empires in their brains.

What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.

Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise, That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.

Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.

Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog

Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.

The Old Man ain’t afraid of hell

It is for the artist... in portrait painting to put on canvas something more than the face the model wears for that one day; to paint the man, in short, as well as his features.

And as long as man has walked on this Earth, there has been God. And man's purpose is for the glorification of God.

There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley

A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.

With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.

He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance.

Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.