Men Quotes

Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready victims.

Yes, I can understand that a man might go to a gambling table when he sees that all that lies between him and death is his last crown.

Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else.

As soon as man seeks to penetrate the secrets of Nature--in which nothing is secret and it is but a question of seeing--he realizes that the simple produces the supernatural.

Your modest savant smiles as he says to his admirers: What have I done? Nothing. Man does not invent a force, he directs it.

That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.

Life gives nothing to man without labor.

Mediocrity in poets has never been tolerated by either men, or gods, or booksellers.

Boys must not have th' ambitious care of men, Nor men the weak anxieties of age.

The man who has lost his purse will go wherever you wish. [Lat., Ibit eo quo vis qui zonam perdidit.]

Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are without a divine poet (to chronicle their deeds).

Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.

Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it.

Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate.

There are as many preferences as there are men.

All men do not, in fine, admire or love the same thing.

What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.

If any young man is about to commence the world, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise.

I look upon paradoxes as the impotent efforts of men who, not having capacity to draw attention and celebrity from good sense, fly to eccentricities to make themselves noted.

I get up and I have coffee and I speak to no man and I go to my desk.

The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.

A true religious instinct never deprived man of one single joy; mournful faces and a sombre aspect are the conventional affectations of the weak-minded.

Saudi Arabia has lost one of its dutiful sons, a leader among the most dear of its leaders and men.

Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.

Please, with the God talk. Hate to break it to you, but there is no God.

'Every man a king' - that's my slogan.

If you get up at three in the morning to go to the bathroom, man, why you have to turn on that little light? Put the torch there on the nightstand.

There are very few persons who pursue science with true dignity.

A man has to BE something; he has to matter.

North Vegas is where you go if you're a hooker turning forty and the syndicate men on the strip decide you're no longer much good for business out there with the high rollers.

Peace on earth and good will toward men - that is something we need to work on. Like Nelson Mandela, we should learn from him.

Pakistan is the sort of place every man should send his mother-in-law, for a month, with all expenses paid.

A man who keeps on going; a man who keeps his eye on the ball.

Oh man, nobody is as tough as Mr T. Ice T is pretty tough though as well.

MAN: Kick him-he'll forgive you. Flatter him-he may or may not see through you. But ignore him and he'll hate you

Either accept people for what they are, or don't. So, in other words, man, if people don't know me, I think they do themself an injustice. Because, as a whole, I think I'm a good person.

In those days, man, in the '50s, black people in the South... We didn't recognize contracts that much. And we didn't recognize marriages that much, either.

when men don't like another man everyone assumes he's no good and that the men know what they are talking about, yet when women dislike another woman people just think they're being catty.

On the whole, I haven't found men unduly loath to say, 'I love you.' The real trick is to get them to say, 'Will you marry me?

I met Patricia Neal, John Houseman. But I loved my grandfather because he was this kind, talented man.

Sure, I didn't weigh a hundred and ten pounds , but my narrow waist let me bend and I could break a man's neck with my kick.

Some men were handsome. Some were powerful. Curran was...dangerous.

Riches ennoble a man's circumstances, but not himself.

The means employed by Nature to bring about the development of all the capacities of men is their antagonism in society, so far as this is, in the end, the cause of a lawful order among men.

Man's respect for knowledge is one of his most peculiar characteristics. Knowledge in Latin is scientia, and science came to be the name of the most respectable kind of knowledge.

I will be patient, kind, faithful and true To a man who loves music a man who loves art Respect's the spirit world and thinks with his heart

Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.

Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.