Men Quotes

I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.

The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it, does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.

Let men be happy, informed, skillful, well behaved, and productive.

We have not yet seen what man can make of man.

How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?

Scouting is a game for boys under the leadership of boys under the direction of a man.

The Word is the master key for the whole world, inasmuch as through its potency the doors of the hearts of men, which in reality are the doors of heaven, are unlocked.

Like pictures, men should be judged by their merits and not by their defects.

Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.

A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.

We need a kind of feminism that aims not just to assimilate into the institutions that men have created over the centuries, but to infiltrate and subvert them.

Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards.

The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.

A man asking for help ought to at least give directions.

Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others - only to lose it over themselves.

If a man has lived in a tradition which tells him that nothing can be done about his human condition, to believe that progress is possible may well be the greatest revolution of all.

Business shouldn't be like sports, separating the men from the women.

A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.

Man is a social animal formed to please in society.

Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.

As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.

Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.

It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.

There should be a connection between a man's hairstyle and what matters to him in life.

Men will find that they can ... avoid far more easily the perils which beset them on all sides by united action.

The central fire is desire, and all the powers of our being are given us to see, to fight for, and to win the object of our desire. Quench that fire and man turns to ashes.

The faint old man shall lean his silver head To feel thee; thou shalt kiss the child asleep, And dry the moistened curls that overspread His temples, while his breathing grows more deep.

When one looks back over human existence however, it is very evident that all culture has developed through an initial resistance against adaptation to the reality in which man finds himself.

Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains.

Feminism as a political movement has to specifically address the needs of men in their struggle to revolutionize their consciousness.

Every man's actions belong to him.

The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.

O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.

I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.

The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.

Silence in woman is like speech in man.

Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.

Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.

Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.

Cut Men's throats with whisperings.

The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that.

When I choose a role it's either because I recognise the man, or that I'm very curious to know him. If I neither recognise nor know him, then it is better that I don't play him.

I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else.

If I'd had fame early on, I'd have been able to abuse it in the way that a young man should.

I know he [Julian Assange] is a man of fierce determination, and now living under the strain of house arrest in the Ecuadorean embassy as a "political exile," as he calls himself.

The masters are men like us who have evolved ahead of us and come to the end of the evolution as a human being on planet earth.

Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites.