Men Quotes

Asian American men, Asian men have been basically eunuchs in American cinema and television.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their conviction. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their convictions.

Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power external to themselves and to nature to do the work they are responsible for doing.

I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.

He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.

This year's Veterans Day celebration is especially significant as our country remains committed to fighting the War on Terror and as brave men and women are heroically defending our homeland.

Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.

Beware of the fury of the patient man.

In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.

For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived.

Man created language to be understood. It should be normal to understand what people convey to us. Fear, ulterior motives, and closed mindedness are the enemies of understanding.

She didn't like the fact that she had reduced a man – no matter how evil he might be—to a drooling idiot.

A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself.

Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!

I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark.

Man's most intelligent age may have gotten lost in history.

Man's attitude towards the universe and his opinion of the universe predates the scientific probe of the universe.

Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.

No man loveth his fetters, be they made of gold.

Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us.

Men are more important than tools. If you don't believe so, put a good tool into the hands of a poor workman.

A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory.

Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.

Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but children playing among heroic men.

Cruel and cold is the judgment of man, Cruel as winter, and cold as the snow; But by-and-by will the deed and the plan Be judged by the motive that lieth below.

God, when he makes the prophet, does not unmake the man.

If you come from a normal family, you immediately start playing the role of a boy, a girl a man or a woman, but I'm sure you'll agree with me that those are only roles, limited roles, at that.

To the Calvinists, more than to any other class of men, the political liberties of Holland, England, and America are due.

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

Be cautious, but not too cautious; do not be too much afraid of making a mistake; a man who never makes a mistake will make nothing.

The idea of hearing, 'Great gig, man,' one more time just turns my stomach over.

It is the eye of the master that fatteth the horse, and the love of the woman that maketh the man.

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

What a man is is the basis owhat he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.

Get in front of the ball, you won't get hurt. That's what you've got a chest for, young man.

Learn to know every man under you, get under his skin, know his faults. Then cater to him - with kindness or roughness as his case may demand.

A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, for he will be going out on a day when he shouldn't.

Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.

Meanwhile the Adversary of God and man, Satan with thoughts inflamed of highest design, Puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of hell Explores his solitary flight.

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.

Opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

I call a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.

What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid?.

No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.

Man is always and everywhere a blight on the landscape.

One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.

Many very strong fathers have turned out ineffectual sons by not allowing them to grow as men.