Men Quotes

Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of because no one was really poor, at least no one worth speaking of.

Apart from an innate grasp of tactical concepts, a great coach must possess the essentials attributes of leadership which mold men into a cohesive, fighting team with an invincible will to victory.

Man owes two solemn debts--one to society, and one to-nature. It is only when he pays the second that he covers the first.

That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time.

Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances.

I'm very flattered, but I don't think I'm the sexiest man on the planet.

A plastic man really, actually no man at all.

I don't like men who live, by choice, out of their own country. I don't like interior decorators. I don't like Germans. I don't like buggers and I don't like Christian Scientists.

The one quality that can be developed by studious reflection and practice is the leadership of men.

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

They [the founders] proclaimed to all the world the revolutionary doctrine of the divine rights of the common man. That doctrine has ever since been the heart of the American faith.

...the exchange of students...should be vastly expanded...Information and education are powerful forces in support of peace. Just as war begins in the minds of men, so does peace.

If a man gets drunk and goes out and breaks his leg so that it must be amputated, God will forgive him if he asks it, but he will have to hop around on one leg all his life.

When a man gets up so high (spiritual mountaintop) that he cannot reach down and save poor sinners, there is something wrong.

I used to think that once a writer became a man of letters, if only for a half hour, he was done for. And here I am now, at the very moment of such an odious, though respectable, danger.

... Rebel against the flesh and bone, The word of the blood, the wily skin, And the maggot no man can slay.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night.

I know in London a Welsh hairdresser who has striven so vehemently to abolish his accent that he sounds like a man speaking with the Elgin marbles in his mouth.

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

If I can fool a bug... I can surely fool a man. People are not as smart as bugs.

A well-trained man knows how to answer questions; an educated man knows what questions are worth asking.

May my heart always be open to little birds, who are the secrets of living. Whatever they sing is better than to know. And if men should not hear them - then men are old.

Treat a man like dirt-he produces flowers.

And still the mad magnificent herald Spring assembles beauty from forgetfulness with the wild trump of April:witchery of sound and odour drives the wingless thing man forth in the bright air.

An artist, a man, a failure, must proceed.

Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Modern economic thinking...is peculiarly unable to consider the long term and to appreciate man's dependence on the natural world.

The modern world tends to be skeptical about everything that makes demands on man's higher faculties. But it is not at all skeptical about skepticism, which demands hardly anything.

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

All men are equal — all men, that is to say, who possess umbrellas.

Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement.

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is to enjoy earning it.

Nearly every man is a coward, if confronted by the proper terror.

When a man tells you what people are saying about you, tell him what people are saying about him; that will immediately take his mind off your troubles.

There is no get-rich-quick scheme equal to a poor girl marrying a rich man.

When a man once gets a start holding office, it is nearly always necessary to finally choke him off.

A man, well, he'll walk right into Hell with both eyes open. But even the devil can't fool a dog.

If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation.

In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Man made God in his own image.

I can do lovers. I can do Sir Galahad types. I'm not going to limit myself in voice-overs to irascible old men.

... no man can be psychologically castrated without his co-operation!

Man is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but man.

The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist

That the play is the tragedy, “Man,” And its hero, the Conqueror Worm.

If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment.

For Age is not alone of time, or we should never see men old and bent at forty and men young at seventy-three.