Men Quotes

Like flowers scattered in a storm, a man's life is a long farewell.

Never trust a man who carries a handkerchief, I always say. One of many prejudicial rules of thumb.

I closed my own jazz bar so I could be a man who can write novels as I like. I was pleased about that. This pleasure was connected to the pleasure of writing.

A man of but mediocre talent who is furiously driven by deep desire will get somewhere. He who doesn't desire deeply isn't hurt much by failure.

Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.

When a man is shooting a handgun, it's just like he is shooting because that's his job, and he has no other choice. It's no good. When a girl is shooting a handgun, it's really something.

I learned a great many things in the Marines that helped me as a football coach. The Marines train men hard and to do things the right way, just as a football team must train.

The man who tries to prove his belief superior to the faith of another, does not know the meaning of religion.

Naive conclusions to draw from man's brutality! Because man is a brute, woman has to be locked up so that she will remain unharmed.

An optimist is a man who sees everything half as bad and twice as good as it is.

Men are so visual, they see a woman who appeals to them physically, and it will trigger the romantic love system faster.

Women spend their lives trying to look good for men. So a woman who feels she's sending the right visual signals is pleased with herself.

Women's worst invention was the plow. With the beginning of plow agriculture, men's roles became extremely powerful. Women lost their ancient jobs as collectors.

You're not going to find a man whose socks don't get dirty or who doesn't snore.

Some men are born for matrimony, some achieve matrimony -- but most of them are merely poor dodgers.

Christianity provided man for the first time with supernatural beings who, he knew, could neither envy nor ridicule him.

Most girls are attracted to the simple things in life. Like men.

I was walking down the street, and I found a man's hand in my pocket. I asked, "What do you want?" "A match" "Why didn't you ask me?" "I don't talk to strangers."

I know a man in Ft. Worth with 100,000 head of cattle. No bodies, just heads.

He is the only man I ever met with a seersucker face.

The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.

Women mostly remember the men who made them laugh, and men - only the women who made them cry.

Every man is a priest, even involuntarily; his conduct is an unspoken sermon, which is forever preaching to others.

There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health.

Men prefer the false due to habit, passion, will. Preference for truth is rare. Men are ruled by their fear of truth.

What governs men is the fear of truth.

Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, wants to re-establish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys.

It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Each man enters into God so much as God enters into him.

Man is saved by love and duty, and by the hope that springs from duty, or rather from the moral facts of consciousness, as a flower springs from the soil.

The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct.

The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny.

The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men.

American politics is a struggle, not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about central power houses.

Fame is a food that dead men eat, I have no stomach for such meat.

Do no dishonor to the earth lest you dishonor the spirit of man.

Nations, like men, have their infancy.

Man's will is free in the sense that man can choose to do anything in keeping with his nature . . . Man's will is not free in that he is limited to his nature

If a man is unable to find the way to Jesus, he ought to be led. It is good work this bringing the blind to Him who alone can give them sight.

If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would ... [be] the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

If within the sophisticated man there is not an unsophisticated one, then he is but one of the devil's angels.

It is reasonable that a man should be something worthier at the end of the year than he was at the beginning.

A man receives only what he is ready to receive... The phenomenon or fact that cannot in any wise be linked with the rest of what he has observed, he does not observe.

Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.

Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.

By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning and the evening, compels me to solitude.

Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.

What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm.

Instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them.

Wherever men have lived, there is a story to be told