Men Quotes

Any society that derives its power and authority from the will of man alone lives apart from God and will crumble in the end.

The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.

I love a straightforward character. I am the guy who loves Cyclops on the 'X-Men', because he is square.

I think Spider-Man [film], the first one particularly, really figured out the formula of, "Oh, tell the story that they told in the comic. It was compelling. That's why it's iconic."

I think that I shall never scan A tree as lovely as a man. . . . . A tree depicts divinest plan, But God himself lives in a man.

Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.

I used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no more in control of my life than the man on the moon.

To me, I've never understood why there is any question about are women as funny as men.

There are some things that are as ancient as time, and knowing when a man desires you is one of those.

Most women seem to be required to pit themselves against men in dramatic situations, and the men got to pit themselves against ideas or God.

John Henry Lloyd is the man I gave the credit to for polishing my skills. He taught me how to play third base and how to protect myself. John taught me more baseball than anyone else.

Animal life, sombre mystery. All nature protests against the barbarity of man, who misapprehends, who humiliates, who tortures his inferior brethren.

The indifference of men, far more than their tyranny, is the torment of women.

Our dream dashes itself against the great mystery like a wasp against a window pane. Less merciful than man, God never opens the window.

Clarity is the politeness of the man of letters.

You have a mother?" He quirked a brow. "Did you think mine was some sort of divine birth? My father was a remarkable man, but even he was not that talented.

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me; As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.

It is true that a man who does this is a fool. I have only proved that a man who does anything else is an even bigger fool.

As with most liberal sexual ideas, what makes the world a better place for men invariably makes it a duller and more dangerous place for women.

I remember becoming aware of women's issues and inequality. It became glaringly clear to me when I was living in America that women are regarded as less intelligent than men.

foolish men say things in anger that they later regret and an angry tongue does not mean one is guilty.

Jordan couldn’t keep the smile off her face. “Yeah, I like this guy. He rescued me from a crazed man with a gun, he makes me laugh, and he calls his mother Ma. I’d say he’s a keeper.

Why would a man not argue his own shameful culpability, why would he not crave responsibility for disaster, when the alternative was to feel himself to be nothing more than a speck of human dust?

The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-laborer and the merchant.

I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring.

As long as hope does not embrace and transform the thought and action of men, it remains topsy-turvy and ineffective.

You know I'm just getting bigger, man. It's like, my shoulders don't fit in some things.

And indeed, I am a warmhearted and thoroughly domestic man who gets up and makes pancakes for his children and kisses them on the head when he sends them off to their day.

Common sense among men of fortune is rare.

Death alone discloses how insignificant are the puny bodies of men.

A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.

Men who ape the saint and play the sinner.

Only death reveals what a nothing the body of man is.

We do not commonly find men of superior sense amongst those of the highest fortune.

Every crime will bring remorse to the man who committed it

Cheerless poverty has no harder trial than this, that it makes men the subject of ridicule. [Lat., Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se Quam quod ridiculos homines facit.]

Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.

Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.

In time, you'll see a thin line between friend and rival. Between you and me: stupidity and men's bravado.

I also said, men are like curling irons, they never get out of your hair. And they are like government bonds, they take so long to mature.

The thunderstorm is a constant phenomenon, raging alternately over some part of the world or the other. Can a single man or creature escape death if all that charge of lightning strikes the earth?

A man away from home need feel no shame. Let's go out there and shame ourselves like crazy.

A lot of guys try to mingle with me because of who I am. If I encounter a guy with a clean heart, I will go by my instincts. I guess my man won't be from the film industry.

Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.

I feel like men don't hold the door open as much.

[On men:] ... you never know what they're like until you get them home and take them out of their packages.

No act of man can claim to be more than an attempt, not even science.

The truly educated man will always speak to the understanding of the most unlearned of his audience.

Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.