Men Quotes

Let thy carriage be such as becomes a man grave settled and attentive to that which is spoken. Contradict not, at every turn, what others say.

There is nothing that gives a man consequence, and renders him fit for command, like a support that renders him independent of everybody but the State he serves.

The General hopes and trusts that every officer and man will endeavor to live and act as becomes a Christian soldier defending the dearest rights and liberties of his country.

Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.

Life is always uncertain, and common prudence dictates to every man the necessity of settling his temporal concerns, while it is in his power, and while the mind is calm and undisturbed.

No man has a more perfect reliance on the alwise and powerful dispensations of the Supreme Being than I have, nor thinks His aid more necessary.

A man given to vice is always an idealist.

Poetry is to a painting what life is to man.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves he isn't a man of action.

The style is the man himself.

Is there not a way by which the man who can think can be enabled to have time to think?

When a man is asked to make a speech, the first thing he has to decide is what to say.

I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a bigger body, more awful, more reverent and more free than he has had before.

Forget anything after, the 1986 Turbo cars really were rockets, and to handle them I really think you had to be a man

I find that those men who are personally most polite to women, who call them angels and all that, cherish in secret the greatest contempt for them.

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.

Nothing can be accomplished just by reading words. A sick man will never be cured of his illness through merely reading medical instructions!

I don't believe in God. I believe in man -- in his strength, his possibilities, and his reason.

[H]appy or miserable, life is the only blessing which man possesses[.

Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.

I asked Mother how she endured so many years of goodbyes. She quoted a mountain-man who said, 'Make the least of all that goes and the most of all that comes.'

All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.

The woman does not work because the man tells her to work and she obeys. On the contrary, the woman works because she has told the man to work and he hasn’t obeyed.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.

A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed.

Powerful men who have powerful passions use much of their strength in forging chains for themselves.

A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead men discussing how any man can possibly be alive.

If a man only likes victory he must always come late for the battle.

A man cannot have the energy to produce good art without having the energy to wish to pass beyond it.

A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy.

The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. It is a disease which arises from men no having sufficient power of expression to utter and get rid of the element of art in their being.

The men of the clique live together because they have the same kind of soul, and their narrowness is a narrowness of spiritual coherence and contentment, like that which exists in hell . . .

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.

He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.

Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.

A tragedy means always a mans struggle with that which is stronger than man.

The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.

While women certainly have made great strides toward pay parity in the past 30 years, there is still a gap in earnings between men and women in equivalent professions.

As is the case with many Middle Eastern nations, women are nowhere near equal to men when it comes to basic freedoms and rights that we take for granted every day.

Man was not then considered a good goldsmith unless he could draw well.

For marriage the best man is the man within oneself. Most women need to develop their own 'masculine' qualities of independence, pride, courage and open sexuality.

Live the principles and the values. Almost nobody in America is living them. Learn the truth. Live the life of our founders. Be a decent, righteous, forthright honest man or woman.

When did it become something of shame or ridicule to be a self-made man in America?

Ismail Merchant was just the most seductive, passionate, outrageous, driven, genius of a man.

Men have to ask, 'How can I combine career and family?'

There are many more women who identify as unique people as well as mothers, or instead of as mothers, than there used to be and, hopefully, there are more men who identify as fathers.

Though we adore men individually, we agree that as a group theyre rather stupid.