Men Quotes

In a free world, if it is to remain free, we must maintain, with our lives if need be, but surely by our lives, the opportunity for a man to learn anything

The rules, religion to religion that man set forth, made me shy away from religion and have my own one on one with God and cut out the middleman.

In the past few years I have begun the process of becoming a new man.

My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we did.

I'm an old newspaper-man myself, but I quit because I found there was no money in old newspapers.

The man committing suicide controls the moment of his death by executing a back flip.

I don't wanta hear all your word descriptions of words words words you made up all winter, man I wanta be enlightened by actions.

A man who allows wild passion to arise within, himself burns his heart, then after burning adds the wind that thereto which ignites the fire again, or not, as the case may be.

But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.

You stand on dead men's legs. You've never had any of your own. You couldn't walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly

Take caution in your tone, commander. I'm a fair man, but this -- heat is making me absolutely crazy.

I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability.

Never rub another man's rhubarb.

Augusta National is a young man's golf course, and you really need a young man's nerves to play on it.

It's a bad thing that happens to women, but when you look at that term 'violence against women,' nobody is doing it to them. It just happens to them. Men aren't even a part of it.

Elite athletes learn entitlement. They believe they are entitled to have women serve their needs. It's part of being a man. It's the cultural construction of masculinity.

The surest way to get a job done is to give it to a busy man. He'll have his secretary do it.

The most powerful drive in the ascent of man is his pleasure in his own skill. He loves to do what he does well. And having done it well, he loves to do it better.

It doesn't matter whether you're talking about bombs or the intelligence quotients of one race as against another if a man is a scientist, like me, he'll always say Publish and be damned.

Man is a singular creature. He has a set of gifts which make him unique among the animals, so that unlike them, he is not a figure in the landscape, he is the shaper of the landscape.

That series of inventions by which man from age to age has remade his environment is a different kind of evolution -- not biological, but cultural evolution . . . "The Ascent of Man.

There must be something unique about man because otherwise, evidently, the ducks would be lecturing about Konrad Lorenz, and the rats would be writing papers about B. F. Skinner.

Men are not narrow in their intellectual interests by nature; it takes special and rigorous training to accomplish that end.

I'm a perfectionist. I need to be needed. I need to do things for a man. But I don't need to do them as much, these days.

Man's tragedy is that when he can do something, in the end he will always do it

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.

Man's destiny is nowhere spelled out, nor is his duty.

In a democratic country, when a man is accused, he's accused from a document issued by the public attorney.

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.

Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis. Conservatives have their place in the piping times of peace; but in emergencies only rugged issue men amount to much.

But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare... are to be found portrayed in it.

Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.

The circumstances which a man encounters with suffering are the result of his own mental inharmony.

Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.

A single seed of fact will produce in a season or two a harvest of calumnies; but sensible men will pay no attention to them.

To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.

But what can a man see of a library being one day in it?

When we know exactly all a man's views and how he comes to speak and act so and so, we lose any respect for him, though we may love and admire him.

Takes a man or a woman to say I'm sorry, and it takes a fool to walk away.

I'd rather be Jack be smart, than Jack be quick. Watch out for the man with the big fat licking stick.

There is only one proved method of assisting the advancement of pure science-that of picking men of genius, backing them heavily, and leaving them to direct themselves.

The dignity of man is vindicated as much by the thinker and poet as by the statesman and soldier.

I will have no man work for me who has not the capacity to become a partner.

Francis Galton, whose mission it seems to be to ride other men's hobbies to death, has invented the felicitous expression 'structureless germs'.

Social welfare is the most corrosive behavioral force ever unleashed by man.

I love hard work. One Man, Two Guvnors was so physically tiring I ached all the time, but I took a massive amount of pride in the fact that I only ever missed two shows.

I don't look like a leading man, whatever they look like. It's changing a little.

A defeat to a brave man is only a victory deferred.

An inherent sense of man makes him long for an eternal paradise.

I am a plain practical man, not one of your theorists and splitters of hairs and choppers of logic.