Men Quotes
We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man's afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane.
I don't fit into the mold of the NBA man, and I think I've been punished financially for it.
The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.
Americans are like Pac Man. We just eat our way through the day. There's always something going into the mouth.
I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd, but then, more women than men, I think, read and write poetry.
He who fears the face of God does not fear the face of man. He who fears the face of man does not fear the face of God.
The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential.
Man seeks, in his manhood, not orders, not laws and peremptory dogmas, but counsel from one who is earnest in goodness and faithful in friendship, making man free.
Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.
In the gospels the very first step a man must take is an act which radically affects his whole existence.
When some one boasted that at the Pythian games he had vanquished men, Diogenes replied, "Nay, I defeat men, you defeat slaves."
Aristippus being asked what were the most necessary things for well-born boys to learn, said, "Those things which they will put in practice when they become men.
Euripides says,-Who knows but that this life is really death,And whether death is not what men call life?
Of God Himself can no man think. And therefore I would leave all that thing that I can think, and choose to my love that thing that I cannot think.
Too great a sense of identity makes a man feel he can do no wrong. And too little does the same.
No man needs curing of his individual sickness; his universal malady is what he should look to.
I didn't want to be the crippled songwriter or the crippled singer. I wanted to be the singer or the songwriter who was crippled. I wanted to be larger than life and a man among men.
Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.
I am a product of a rat and roach infested black ghetto. It is easy for me to rationalize my dealings as a numbers man. I'll defend men today who are involved in it.
A man who went to the 'footie' match on Saturday afternoon and played eighteen holes of golf was really doing his duty by the nation.
You see, as far as the man's personality goes, there's no one who can touch Fred Astaire. He's unique.
Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children.
Nelson Mandela and myself had a wonderful relationship - he was a special man and will be missed.
Scent is very important. Strong fragrances suit some men, while citrus types suit others. I like my men to smell fresh and woody, but also like a man.
Women made up 44% of Olympic competitors at London 2012 - the greatest show of gender equality in Olympic history. By comparison, in the 1908 Games men outnumbered women 53 to 1.
I'm going to be true to what I want to do, because if I care what people think about me, I'm a puppet. Which I have been in my life. And you can't live life that way, man!
Think of the millions of young men who died fighting for democracy. We spit on their graves when we let democracy slip away into the sewer of illegal money.
I always feel a rise in my scalp or in the backs of my wrists when something is special, whether it be a song or a man.
Africa gives you the knowledge that man is a small creature, among other creatures, in a large landscape.
As the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
The whole point of view of the anarchist is that everything must start from the bottom up, from man. It seems to me so human a philosophy.
Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think
Im off to race around the world - a race against time and two men. I know I can beat time. I hope I can beat the men.
How can I tell," said the man, "that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind?
The storm had now definitely abated, and what thunder there was now grumbled over more distant hills, like a man saying 'And another thing...' twenty minutes after admitting he'd lost the argument.
This man is the bee's knees, Arthur, he is the wasp's nipples. He is, I would go so far as to say, the entire set of erogenous zones of every major flying insect of the Western world.