Men Quotes

Man is the highest being in creation, because he attains to freedom.

Superstition is great enemy of man but bigotry is worse.

Happiness presents itself to man, wearing the crown of sorrow on its head. He who welcomes it must also welcome sorrow.

If you want to know what a man's character is really like... ask him to tell you the living person he most admires - for hero worship is the truest index of a man's private nature.

You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.

I've been involved in something which was chaotic and insane. All I can say now is that I am, and intend to stay, a single man.

War is like a fire. One man may start it, but it will spread all over. It is not about any one thing in particular.

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account.

Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity.

In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.

The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.

The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.

Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]

I always say we got 700 pounds of pork up front. They're going to hold guys down and allow us linebackers to make a lot of plays. Even in practice. I'm loving it, man.

One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.

This devil loves mankind because men are going to always make the choice that will send him into ascendancy. He's been winning the game for a long time.

Life is tough, man. No one is spared from obstacles and trials, but there is such a beautiful plan for each of us. Just gotta let it happen.

Well, guess what, I’m Cuban! And no self-respecting Cuban man of the era would let his wife work.

Men and women are different, but if women are good enough to run homes and raise children, then their influence ought to be good for politics.

People in Hollywood are not showmen, they're maintenance men, pandering to what they think their audiences want.

Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence.

History is rarely made by reasonable men.

No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.

Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.

The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.

The small share of happiness attainable by man exists only insofar as he is able to cease to think of himself.

Love is nothing but the fear of mortal man at the thought of solitude.

If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circustance.

The great man is to be the servant of mankind, not they of him.

He prays best who, not asking God to do man's work, prays penitence, prays resolutions, and then prays deeds--thus supplicating with heart and head and hands.

It is not from the tall crowded workhouse of prosperity that men first or clearest see the eternal stars of heaven.

Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not religious, he will be superstitious. IF he worship not the true God, he will have his idols.

The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities.

Unless the man is master of his soul all other kinds of mastery amount to little.

We want men who will fix their eyes on the stars, but who will not forget that their feet must walk on the ground.

Even to a wicked man a divinity gives wealth, Cyrnus, but to few men comes the gift of excellence.

I am a man for whom the outside world exists.

The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host.

A wise and good man will turn examples of all sorts to his own advantage. The good he will make his patterns, and strive to equal or excel them. The bad he will by all means avoid.

Therefore, a man ought to root himself so firmly in God that he will not need the consolations of men.

Let not your peace rest in the utterances of men, for whether they put a good or bad construction on your conduct does not make you other than you are.

By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity.

Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.

I would rather have one man with enthusiasm working with me than ten who are complacent.

The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world.

Nature is truly wonderful. Only man is truly foul.

Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain.

It [covetousness] is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things.

It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.