Men Quotes

A civilised man is someone who has discovered something more satisfying than combat.

Banking may well be a career from which no man really recovers.

Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to strike such people down.

I fell in love with the book [ Brief Interviews with Hideous Men] and always wanted to do something with and fought to get the rights, which was pretty fun and an incredible experience in itself.

What girl could fail to make a conquest who collapsed at a man's feet in the moonlight?

I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man.

I was always the front man for what I was doing from when I was 6.

I was the front man of the choir and then when I was 12 and I was the leadsinger of my highschool groups.

I'm a moldy moldy man I'm moldy thru and thru I'm a moldy moldy man You would not think it true I'm moldy til my eyeballs I'm moldy til my toe I will not dance I shyballs I'm such a humble Joe.

There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.

Untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity.

Truth certainly would do well enough, if she were once left to shift for herself...She is not taught by laws, nor has she any need of force, to procure her entrance into the minds of men.

[H]e that thinks absolute power purifies men's blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read the history of this, or any other age, to be convinced to the contrary.

I thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his feet.

When did one man ever civilize a people?

A man who is not a good friend to himself cannot be so to any one else.

A comely olde man as busie as a bee.

I have a confession: I'm not a man of simplicity. I spent my entire early career making complex stuff. Lots of complex stuff.

I don't take much from my own father, because he was a very austere, quiet, private man who would come home from work, go to his parlour and play Beethoven on his piano.

The corn that makes the holy bread By which the soul of man is fed, The holy bread, the food unpriced, Thy everlasting mercy, Christ.

The categories of woman and man are too rigid. They're going to give way to new forces. They already have, to a degree, but for most of us, this drama held sway, and we assumed our positions.

Men will not always die quietly.

Economic privation proceeds by easy stages, and so long as men suffer it patiently the outside world cares little.

With my team I am an absolute czar. My men know it. I order plays and they obey. If the don't, I fine them.

I wonder if it's ethical to watch a man with binoculars and a long-focus lens? D'ya suppose it's ethical even if you prove that he didn't commit a crime? I'm not much on rear window ethics.

No man at all can be living forever and we must be satisfied.

Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms.

For liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands.

A bevy of fair women.

Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed.

Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names.

That power Which erring men call Chance.

In argument with men a woman ever Goes by the worse, whatever be her cause.

Therefore God's universal law Gave to the man despotic power Over his female in due awe, Not from that right to part an hour, Smile she or lour.

Say, heavenly pow'rs, where shall we find such love? Which of ye will be mortal to redeem Man's mortal crime, and just th' unjust to save.

Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.

To overcome in battle, and subdue Nations, and bring home spoils with infinite Man-slaughter, shall be held the highest pitch Of human glory.

Virtue that wavers is not virtue, but vice revolted from itself, and after a while returning. The actions of just and pious men do not darken in their middle course.

Evil into the mind of god or man may come and go, so unapproved, and leave no spot or blame behind.

Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare, more apt To slacken virtue, and abate her edge, Than prompt her to do aught may merit praise.

If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.

When a man plants a tree, he plants himself.

The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted.

Zeal without knowledge is like expedition to a man in the dark.

The man who respects a woman does not know what else to do with her.

A Gorean slave girl in the presence of a free man or woman always kneels, unless excused from doing so.

God is a dark night to man in this life.

To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins.

The goal of Bethlehem College and Seminary cannot be expressed with man as the end point. Christ is the endpoint.

In the war, most young men were inducted into the armed forces at the age of 17. A group of students was permitted to attend university before taking part in wartime research projects.