Men Quotes

I find more and more that I am a man of the 1920s. I still expect something exciting. Drinks, animated conversation, gaiety: the uninhibited exchange of ideas.

Most of the men regarded Europe as a wine list. In their mental geography Rheims, Rhine, Moselle, Bordeaux, Champagne, or Würzburg were not localities but libations.

Not for the flag Of any land because myself was born there Will I give up my life. But I will love that land where man is free, And that will I defend.

The process is intense and the producers, who are intelligent men, are bringing in new people for a fresh look at a complicated project that has been in the making for 10 years

Beware of the man who has no enemies.

A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.

No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as that Glen Canyon Dam at Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County.

Every monster was a man first.

A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.

Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame - to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell.

How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chill the ardor to excel.

The heart of a man's like that delicate weed, / Which requires to be trampled on, boldly indeed / Ere it gives forth the fragrance you wish to extract.

Men never forgive those in whom there is nothing to pardon.

The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.

O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility.

Every libel, which is called famosus libellus, is made either against a private man, or against a public person. If it be against a private man, it deserves a severe punishment.

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave.

Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself.

No man is so insignificant as to be sure his example can do no hurt.

That man cannot possibly be called a Christian, who does not pray.

Apostolic preaching cannot be carried on unless there be apostolic prayer. Men of God, before anything else, are indispensable to the furtherance of the kingdom of God on earth.

We're not descended from fearful men - not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular.

A blur of blinks, taps, jiggles, pivots and shifts ... the body language of a man wishing urgently to be elsewhere.

Verse is the natural speech of men, as singing is of birds'The Week's Survey, 18 June 1904

The life of every man is an endlessly repeated performance of the life of man.

No man ever did or can do a great work alone.

Miracle: An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it.

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

I make bad choices. I've got such dodgy tastes in men.

There's nothing more irresistible to a man than a woman who's in love with him.

The richest man is the one with the most powerful friends.

Most religions do not make men better, only warier.

There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world.

Fear and Guilt are the only enemies of man.

Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.

All the men of the Old Testament were polygamists, and Christ and Paul, the central figures of the New Testament, were celibates, and condemned marriage by both precept and example.

[On Ronald Reagan:] The President doesn't want yes-men around. When he says no, we all say no.

Maybe it's just me but I would suspect that a man trying to impress a woman would be more likely to bring out the steak - "I killed this for you, now I'm grilling it for you."

There is only one valid species of voyage, which is walk towards the men.

Work is a sovereign remedy for all ills, and a man who loves to work will never be unhappy.

Except on their southern borders the great northern forests are not good as a permanent home for man.

When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.

Why can't a man stand alone? Must he be burdened by all that he's taught to consider his own? His skin and his station, his kin and his crown, his flag and his nation They just weigh him down

Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.

Man is an organ of life, and God alone is life.

Such as the love is, such is the wisdom, consequently such is the man (n. 368) (Divine Love and Wisdom, 1763)

For the judgment was accomplished not only upon all the men of the Christian church, but also upon all who are called Mohammedans, and, moreover, upon all the Gentiles in the whole world.

To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means