Men Quotes

The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.

A man who excels in creating new things is the one who is good at dreaming when not sleeping.

I am no size zero or super-thin Hollywood actress. I am built for men who like women to look like women.

Men only know if you tell them. Even though you probably want them to just know, they won't.

I mean, who made up all the rules in the culture? Men-white male corporate society. So why wouldnt a woman want to rebel against that?

Men think women should do trivial things on the margins. They think women should be merely a seasoning for a dish. I feel anger and sorrow seeing this.

Fashion: a barricade behind which men hide their nothingness.

The fullness or emptiness of life will be measured by the extent to which a man feels that he has an impact on the lives of others.

Slowly, painstakingly, like ants, men would make their paths and civilization and their wars once again, only to have it wash away again.

I enjoy talking to my football men and my chemistry classes and I feel sure that they are quite interested in what I have to say.

It's tough being out there doing what I'm doing in what they call a man's world.

Man, the cutting edge of terrestrial life, has no rational alternative but to expand the environmental and resource base beyond Earth.

First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms.

Having a leading man who is actually prettier than you are is quite upsetting.

He was a graduate of West Point, which is military academy that turns young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war.

During the year I stood there I had known was the loss of my heart. While I was in love I was the happiest man on earth.

Oh - You're a very bad man!" Oh, no my dear. I'm a very good man. I'm just a very bad Wizard.

As to the old history of Ireland, the first man ever died in Ireland was Partholan, and he is buried, and his greyhound along with him, at some place in Kerry.

To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer - not just a one-article or a one-story or a one-book man.

The wise man puts himself last and finds himself first.

A foolish man is always doing, Yet much remains to be done.

A sound man is good at salvage, at seeing nothing is lost

Man is ruled by Earth. Earth is ruled by Heaven. Heaven is ruled by the Way. The Way is ruled by itself.

The sage seeks freedom from desire. He does not collect precious things. He learns not to hold on to ideas. He brings men back to what they have lost.

I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life.

A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.

I need to put bread on the table man

The idea that men 'lose control' around a woman in a short skirt is insulting to men, completely relieves perpetrators of responsibility, and erases and ignores male victims.

There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there.

Maybe they know what I know, that the true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs. Sometimes four inches will do the job, but to be really sure, I like to have six.

I am not a wealthy woman. I wish to hell I was, but I never had a wealthy man.

A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.

[May 1958, on playing Macbeth at age 30 and age 48] When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part.

I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life.

It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end provided there is a sufficient wick standing out.

In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance of it, as the case will well let them.

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

You know, for every dollar a man makes a woman makes 63 cents. Now, fifty years ago that was 62 cents. So, with that kind of luck, it’ll be the year 3,888 before we make a buck.

Every man is made of clay and diamond, and no woman can nourish both.

Right knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.

What is infinite? The universe and the greed of men.

One can love any man that is generous.

When old men decided to barter young men for pride and profit, the transaction was called war.

Woman is more impressionable than man. Therefore in the Golden Age they were better than men. Now they are worse.

If a man does not work at necessary and good things, then he will work at unnecessary and stupid things

Why does man have reason if he can only be influenced by violence?

The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.

Woman is generally so bad that the difference between a good and a bad woman scarcely exists.

Not all of life's roads are set fast, for a man may do this or a man may do that and not even the gods know the mind of a man.