Men Quotes

To live one's love and hatred, to live that which one is means defeat, resignation, and death. The crimes of society, the hell that man has made or man become unconquerable cosmic forces.

Man is everywhere still in chains.

You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent personality, but this does not seem to be true.

Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Indolence is heaven 's ally here, And energy the child of hell : The Good Man pouring from his pitcher clear But brims the poisoned well.

It may seem strange that of all men sailors should be tinkering at their last wills and testaments, but there are no people in the world more fond of that diversion.

Man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes.

Where do murderers go, man! Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar?

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Words are not in the power of men; men are in the power of words. Every time we open our mouths, a thousand dead men speak through us.

All men of goodwill have this in common - that our works put us to shame.

There are far too many men in politics and not enough elsewhere.

He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.

Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.

The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.

Mens fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.

I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.

The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes.

This man, I say, is most perfect who shall have understood everything for himself, after having devised what may be best afterward and unto the end.

A man fashions ill for himself who fashions ill for another, and the ill design is most ill for the designer.

Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy.

Men must sweat to attain virtue.

But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.

Hunger is an altogether fit companion for the idle man.

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

The man who is rich in fancy thinks that his wagon is already built; poor fool, he does not know that there are a hundred timbers to a wagon.

For now indeed is the race of iron; and men never cease from labour and sorrow by day and from perishing by night.

False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.

O happy, happy each man whom predestined fate leads to the holy rite of hill and mountain worship.

It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children's and grandchildren's fates, are decided.

It’s always surprising to me how many young women think they have to be perfect. I rarely meet a young man who doesn’t think he already is.

I think what more and more Americans are concluding is that Donald Trump is not a man who is qualified to be president, and he is not fit to be commander and chief.

Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs, and tears.

It brings joy in sorrow, victory in battle, light to darkness, life to the dead. That is the power of the blood-red jewel which men honor with the name "The Philosopher's Stone.

To come to a concert and hear a lot of songs from a female perspective should not make men say, 'Oh well, that's for women'.

It is essential that men start being interested in and excited by how women think.

White middle- and upper-class men have a longer journey to go than many people.

You make choices, as a young man. I knew I wanted to be an actor, so I pursued that, but the desire to compete still stayed with me.

A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.

Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

Wine gives strength to weary men.

Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

I'm not a bath man myself. More of a cologne man.

Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed The woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed.

Nothing feebler does earth nurture than man, Of all things breathing and moving.

Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities.

The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.

For a sick man the world begins at his pillow and ends at the foot of his bed.

Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival.

With a woman, always make good use of a secret. She will be proportionally grateful to you, like a scoundrel who grants his respect to an honest man he has been unable to swindle.