Men Quotes

When your enemies defy you, you must serve them steel and fire. When they go to their knees, however, you must help them back to their feet. Elsewise no man will ever bend the knee to you

Gold cometh gladly and in increasing quantity to any man who will put by not less than one-tenth of his earnings to create an estate for his future and that of his family.

Learned women are ridiculed because they put to shame unlearned men.

A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown away at a street corner. The fragments of an intellect are always good.

Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.

Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility.

Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavour to understand him.

What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude : the aims of friendship , religion , science , and art .

Ballet is not technique, not a way of doing things, but a means of expression that comes perhaps more closely to the inner language of man than any other.

To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human affairs -- but a tribute nevertheless.

I was no party man myself, and the first wish of my heart was, if parties did exist, to reconcile them.

In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars.

A man's intentions should be allowed in some respects to plead for his actions.

There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity.

In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate.

The enthusiasm of old men is singularly like that of infancy.

The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over.

Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of human contrivance.

There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.

Any man that can't find what he is looking for in a thousand women is really looking for a boy.

Man is free; but not unless he believes he is[.]

There are men who talk of women and others who talk to them. I don’t talk of them, I prefer talking to them

When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.

It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.

Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.

There are two kinds of charlatan: the man who is called a charlatan, and the man who really is one. The first is the quack who cures you; the second is the highly qualified person who doesn't.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals; following the rugged respectability of the tribe or type.

The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.

That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem.

At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .

Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.

I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative.

A man was the sum of his limits; freedom only made him see how much so.

Men of great genius and large heart sow the seeds of a new degree of progress in the world, but they bear fruit only after many years.

I always kind of thought I want to be a good person, I want to be right to my fellow men and love them like were supposed to.

Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.

Women fear endangering men's approval so much, we don't even wait for them to say no. Or else we protect them, even if it means saying no to ourselves.

The young women seem to think that they can only go out with or marry a man who is superior to them. The problem there is that they are wanting to be defeated, as opposed to finding a partner.

Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men cando." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can do.

The gods hate unjust men.

No man's faith, no man's religion, no religion in all the world can ever rise above the truth.

It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.

Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.

A man who does not lose his reason over certain things has none to lose.