Men Quotes

The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.

The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all the beauties of human excellence may be fostered by faiths that we do not share.

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.

I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved.

You look at Man United and Liverpool, and they are red - they are much more successful and have a bigger fan base than Chelsea or Manchester City.

war is a man's game ... the killing machine has a gender and it is male.

If ardent passions push not men on to lofty enterprise, calm wisdom never will accomplish it.

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

I've never met a man I didn't mutilate.

The spirit of property doubles a man's strength.

The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.

Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned.

Bert Williams was the funniest man I ever saw and the saddest man I ever knew.

A man who overindulges lives in a dream. He becomes conceited. He thinks the whole world revolves around him; and it usually does.

Given that we glimpse what distinguishes man from the beast, is there anything that distinguishes woman from man?

She is still less civilized than man, largely because she has not been educated.

Cradles are the most powerful pinning combination known to man

You can serve God and man in no more effective way than by getting rich; that is, if you get rich by the creative method and not by the competitive one.

They said, 'You have a blue guitar, / You do not play things as they are.' / The man replied, 'Things as they are / Are changed upon the blue guitar.'

Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow.

To me the sea is a continual miracle; The fishes that swim - the rocks - the motion of the waves - the ships, with men in them, what stranger miracles are there?

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

Naturally we need black men to give this movie serious credibility.

To keep a faith pure, man had better retire to a monastery.

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.

When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.

Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.

For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism.

Unity of man has always been impossible in a world of fear and discontent where every man fears every other man as an enemy.

The sum total of each man's giving determines the standard of man's civilization.

Political men, like goats, usually thrive best among inequalities.

No good writer was ever long neglected; no great man overlooked by men equally great. Impatience is a proof of inferior strength, and a destroyer of what little there may be.

Three hundred men, all of whom know one another, direct the economic destiny of Europe and choose their successors from among themselves.

It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.

Occasionally, a man must rise above principles.

Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men.

There are 25 differences in the way women and men behave in the workplace. These 25 differences lead to men receiving higher pay and women having better lives or at least more balanced lives.

We must proceed with a full realization that no statute enacted by man can repeal the inexorable laws of nature.

But what an mortal man do to secure his own salvation?" Mortal man can do just what God bids him do. Be can repent and believe. He can arise and follow Christ as Matthew did.

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.

In civilized life, where the happiness, and indeed almost the existence, of man depends so much upon the opinion of his fellow men, he is constantly acting a studied part.

I was slipping, man, and it was definetly time to get a grip.

Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man.

Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise.

Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.

Who is the man who can call from the back door at night: "Here, Champion Alexander of Clane o' Wind-Holme! Here, Champion Alexander of Clane o' Wind-Holme"?

I don't think that women necessarily always write like women. I was a writer on the Comedy Central Roasts for a while, and I always wrote the jokes that people assumed the men would write.

A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.

The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humanely for one