Men Quotes

A few yes men may be born, but mostly they are made. Fear is a great breeder of them.

This is no job for a UN committee. It needs the same kind of unwavering dedication and the kinds of people that got us the first nuclear submarine and the first man on the moon.

In Russia a man is called reactionary if he objects to having his property stolen and his wife and children murdered.

Always remember, however sure you are that you could easily win, that there would not be a war if the other man did not think he also had a chance.

Advertising nourishes the consuming power of men.

There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.

The people are the foundation of the nation. Our only chance for a lasting peace on earth: the release of the strength of the common man.

It is better not to become acquainted with men about whom you have formerly had doubts. No matter what you do, they will be people by whom you will be tripped up or taken in.

The knife is the most permanent, the most immortal, the most ingenious of man's creations. The knife was a guillotine; the knife is a universal means of resolving all knots.

For me, it's very offensive when I notice that it's all about my appearance, how I look, that a man doesn't care who I am.

A virtuous man concentrates on his own work, not that of others.

Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice.

Breathing control gives man strength, vitality, inspiration, and magic powers.

The perfect man of old looked after himself first before looking to help others.

Fish live in water. Men die in it.Nature is diverse, and not all tastes are the same.

Only men of character are trusted.

Through men ... you learn how the world is. Through women you learn what it is.

I was supposed to be a romancer, either wooing the leading lady or competing with the leading man for her.

Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.

A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.

He who runs away from a fearful calamity, a foreign invasion, a terrible famine, and the companionship of wicked men is safe.

A man or a ruler should always take up a task after thoroughly considering its consequences. Otherwise fate also cannot protect his wealth.

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

The Indian was a religious man from his mother's womb.

Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution.

It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten.

I am for the small man who has not forgotten, for the man who loves his beer and his women and his sunlight

It’s nice enough to make a man weep, but I don’t weep, do you?

He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.

The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.

We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.

Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.

Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.

There are many women who have never intrigued, and many men who have never gamed; but those who have done either but once are very extraordinary animals.

Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.

Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.

It is scarcely possible to doubt that the love of man has become instinctive in the dog.

Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.

Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?

Thus violent deeds live after men upon the earth, and traces of war and bloodshed will survive in mournful shapes long after those who worked the desolation are but atoms of earth themselves.

The man who begins to speculate in stocks with the intention of making a fortune usually goes broke, whereas the man who trades with a view of getting good interest on his money sometimes gets rich.

The biggest farce of man's history has been the argument that wars are fought to save civilization.

The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps.

Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.

Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble.

Music is a sacred, a divine, a God-like thing, and was given to man by Christ to lift our hearts up to God, and make us feel something of the glory and beauty of God, and of all which God has made.

Tis the hard grey weather Breeds hard English men.

Where is the man, who, if asked to become a slave, would not hurl back the offer indignantly in the teeth of the oppressor?

You're a good man, Charlie Brown.

The men who miss success have two general alibis: 'I'm not a genius' is one; and the other, 'There aren't the opportunities today there used to be'.