Men Quotes

Most men are prisoners at best, Who some strong habit every drag about Like chain and ball.

A man can't eat anger for breakfast and sleep with it at night and not suffer damage to his soul.

Learn everything you can - everything. And then use all that you have learned to grow up too be a wise and good man.

The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm.

If one man kills a hundred men, and another man masters himself, the second man is the much greater warrior.

If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.

Much though he recites the sacred texts, but acts not accordingly, that heedless man is like a cowherd who only counts the cows of others - he does not partake of the blessings of the holy life.

Wonder of wonders! Intrinsically all living beings are Buddhas, endowed with wisdom and virtue, but because men's minds have become inverted through delusive thinking they fail to perceive this.

As Mayor of San Francisco, I will work hard to ensure that, in the event of natural or man-made disasters, San Franciscans are prepared and our City is protected

When the waitress puts the dinner on the table, the old men look at the dinner. The young men look at the waitress.

Men like to pursue an elusive woman like a cake of wet soap - even men who hate baths.

Most women have all other women as adversaries; most men have all other men as their allies.

Men are wonderful. I adore them. They always give you the benefit of the doubt.

. . . if gold rust, what then will iron do?/ For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust. . . .

Drunkenness is the very sepulcher Of man's wit and his discretion.

Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.

The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.

Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity.

No man is a hero to his valet de chamber

God has ordered, that men, being in need of each other, should learn to love each other, and to bear each other's burdens.

To me it seems that liberty and virtue were made for each other. If any man wish to enslave his country, nothing is a fitter preparative than vice; and nothing leads to vice so surely as irreligion.

The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.

The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else.

Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men.

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.

A young mind in a healthy body is a wonderful thing. Especially for an old man with an open night.

I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.

Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.

The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people.

A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.

As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.

What is opportunity to the man who cant use it?

To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.

There are robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer.

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.

I'd rather be one of the devotees of God than one of the straight, so-called sane or normal people who just don't understand that man is a spiritual being, that he has a soul.

A married man turns his staffe into a stake.

Gaming, women, and wine, while they laugh they make men pine.

Never ask a man what he knows, but what he can do.

What passes for woman's intuition is more often intrinsically nothing more than man's transparency.

It is a happy thing for us that this is really all we have to concern ourselves about--what to do next. No man can do the second thing. He can do the first.

The Bible is to me the most precious thing in the world, because it tells me his story; and what good men thought about him who knew him and accepted him.

Man's rank is his power to uplift.

The typical socialist... a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaler and often with vegetarian leanings.

When you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him.