Men Quotes

I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife.

Men are sometimes hanged for telling the truth.

No man will ever put his hand up your dress looking for a library card.

The strength of man sinks in the hour of trial; but there doth live a Power that to the battle girdeth the weak.

The tyrant now Trusts not to men: nightly within his chamber The watch-dog guards his couch, the only friend He now dare trust.

Men's actions to futurity appear but as the events to which they are conjoined do give them consequence.

I dont think men are that attracted by glamour. I think women are attracted by glamour. I think men are attracted by a sense of friendship.

In 1795, I sent him another letter, telling him, that danger still stood before us, and that the truth of what I had written in 1792 was to be proved by 12 men.

A man I'm proud to call my friend. A man who will be the next President of the United States — Barack America!

Show me a man with both feet on the ground and I'll show you a man who can't get his pants on.

I don't like to date so much as I just like to kind of, you know, run into somethin', man.

In a sluggish economy, never, ever f*** with another man's livelihood.

The logic of a madman is a sane man's confusion.

I like the way you hustle man.

What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.

There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.

Man without religion is a diseased creature, who would persuade himself he is well and needs not a physician; but woman without religion is raging and monstrous.

He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Have I done aught of value to my fellow-men? Then have I done much for myself.

He, who boldly interposes between a merciless censor and his prey, is a man of vigor: and he who, mildly wise, without wounding, convinces him of his error, commands our veneration.

Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it.

As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character; in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and salutation.

You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.

The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint.

The noble man is only God's image.

Every man bears something within him that, if it were publicly announced, would excite feelings of aversion.

The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides.

To the man of thought almost nothing is really ridiculous.

Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of doing.

Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny

It is natural to man to regard himself as the object of the creation, and to think of all things in relation to himself, and the degree in which they can serve and be useful to him.

A man's errors are what make him amiable.

What a man does not understand, he does not possess.

Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the wish to be perfect the measure of man.

A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others

When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.

To be active is the primary vocation of man.

Age childish makes, they say, but 'tis not true; We're only genuine children still in Age's season. [Ger., Das Alter macht nicht kindisch, wie man spricht, Es findet uns nur noch als wahre Kinder.]

The world sees only the reflection of merit; therefore when you come to know a really great man intimately, you may as often find him above as below his reputation.

Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.

The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. [Ger., Ein tag der Gunst ist wie ein Tag der Ernte, Man muss geschaftig sein sobald sie reift.]

Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way.

A vain man can never be altogether rude. Desirous as he is of pleasing, he fashions his manners after those of others.

The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.

The man who masters himself is delivered from the force that binds all creatures.

Men are joined by conviction, sundered by opinion.

There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational.

A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.

While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.