Men Quotes

Fanny! You are killing me!" "No man dies of love but on the stage, Mr. Crawford.

Sometimes when a man gets older he has a revelation and wants awfully bad to get back to the place where he left his life, but he can't get to that place- not often.

In my marriages, I'd lost parts of who I was because I was trying to mold myself into what I thought a man wanted me to be.

We need spies that look like their targets, CIA officers who speak the dialects terrorists use, and FBI agents who can speak to Muslim women who might be intimidated by men.

Some men tend to cling to old intellectual excitements, just as some belles, when they are old ladies, still cling to the fashions and coiffures of their exciting youth.

Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity.

True virtue, when she errs, needs not the eyes of men to excite her blushes; she is confounded at her own presence, and covered with confusion of face.

Men are competent in groups that mimic the playground, incompetent in groups that mimic the family

I'm not religious anymore, but I think it's like papal infallibility, which is a ridiculous man-made tenet, like what I believe most religious tenets to be, are man-made after the fact.

Women always put men first. That's how everything got so screwed up.

I think men are still attracted to what they've always found attractive, which is a woman who is feminine, soft, real, and . . . womanly.

For me this book was a very practical explanation of one man's experience of Enlightened awareness in in the face of or in light of dogma-oriented wisdom.

In my experience—and I admit I didn't anticipate this—most blacks are delighted to have a 100-percent honest conversation with a white man about race.

Congratulations to Mexico. They upset Brazil to win a gold medal in men's soccer. And after the Olympics ended, the Mexican soccer team, of course, returned home to their houses here in Los Angeles.

Saddam Hussein has invited members from the U.S. Congress to visit Iraq. Man how stupid is Hussein? If you think Bush had incentive to bomb Iraq before, imagine if Congress was over there.

A woman should be pink and cuddly for a man.

No man under forty can be dignified with the title of gourmet.

Beasts feed. Man eats. Only the man of intellect knows how to eat.

Animals have no unconscious, because they have a territory. Men have only had an unconscious since they lost a territory.

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

A man can deceive a woman by his sham attachment to her provided he does not have a real attachment elsewhere.

A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.

The reason that women do not love one another is - men.

Nothing is easier for passion than to overcome reason, but the greatest triumph is to conquer a man's own interests.

Men make the best friends.

As riches and honor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity.

Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste.

When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, and what he is really in himself, as there is between a VIzor and a Face.

It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all.

An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in censure, but a modest man ever shuns making himself the subject of his conversation.

Women are extreme; they are better than men, or worse.

It is motive alone that gives real value to the actions of men, and disinterestedness puts the cap to it.

The best thing next to wit is a consciousness that it is not in us; without wit, a man might then know how to behave himself, so as not to appear to be a fool or a coxcomb.

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.

We tend to think of the Faustian man, the one who fabricates, manipulates, seduces and ends up destroying. But the new image will be man the creator, the artist, the player.

Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.

Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.

The way good inventions are made is to familiarize yourself with those of others. The men who cultivate letters and the arts are all sons of Homer.

Were there a people of gods, their government would be democratic. So perfect a government is not for men.

If there were a people consisting of gods, they would be governed democratically. So perfect a government is not suitable to men.

Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

Everything degenerates in the hands of man.

One must choose between making a man or a citizen, for one cannot make both at the same time.

To study men, we must look close by; to study man, we must learn to look afar; if we are to discover essential characteristics, we must first observe differences.

There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad consequences, if indeed anything can cure it.

The theatre has built a whole art round the actor, based on the man and his double - the actor and his character.

I am nowhere. You can call me the man in the middle.

The viable jewels of life remain untouched when man forgets his vocation of searching for the truth of his existence.

For the time being I have seen enough of living things, of dogs, of men, of all flabby masses which move spontaneously.