Men Quotes

Fools do not understand men of intelligence.

Hope deceives more men than cunning does.

Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.

Mediocre men sometimes fear great office, and when they do not aim at it, or when they refuse it, all that is to be concluded is that they are aware of their mediocrity.

Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived.

How blind men are to Heaven's gifts!

Poverty persuades a man to do and suffer everything that he may escape from it.

A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.

Men, when they fight in movies, it's a very different style. Harrison Ford was so cool when he had the whip, and Bruce Lee was such an artist that you couldn't take your eyes off of him.

I think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win.

It comes as second nature to men to sacrifice themselves, and their women to let them do it.

For rarely man escapes his destiny. [It., Che l'uomo il suo destin fugge di raro.]

The religion of Big Data sets itself the goal of fulfilling man's unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignores her attainable needs.

Men are not only together when they are with each other; even the distant and the dead live with us.

No matter how efficient school training may be, it would only produce stagnation, orthodoxy, and rigid pedantry if there were no uncommon men pushing forward beyond the wisdom of their tutors.

Mankind does not drink alcohol because there are breweries, distilleries, and vineyards; men brew beer, distill spirits, and grow grapes because of the demand for alcoholic drinks.

Men are fighting one another because they are convinced that the extermination and liquidation of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.

Under capitalism the common man enjoys amenities which in ages gone by were unknown and therefore inaccessible even to the richest people.

Socialism in Russia has not brought about an improvement in the conditions of the average man which can be compared with the improvement of conditions, during the same period, in the United States.

Western civilization is based upon the libertarian principle, and all its achievements are the results of the action of free men.

There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man - but he has a particular kind of lens to concentrate this light into a burning point.

Most men have an insecurity of some sort. But we're brought up to believe that we can't show them.

Men should stop fighting among themselves and start fighting insects.

I watch a man shoot pool for an hour. If he misses more than one shot, I know I can beat him.

But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.

I never met a man I didn't want to fight.

The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely.

Any man who's not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.

Every man of any education would rather be called a rascal, than accused of deficiency in the graces.

A clear stream, a long horizon, a forest wilderness and open sky - these are man's most ancient possessions. In a modern society, they are his most priceless.

The great society is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goods than with the quantity of their goods.

Every man should know that his conversations, his correspondence, and his personal life are private.

There are a great deal of a great many kinds of love.

My one aim and concentrated purpose shall be and is to show that women can learn, can reason, can compete with men in the grand fields of literature and science . . .

When a man is small, he loves and hates food with a ferocity which soon dims. At six years old his very bowels will heave when such a dish as creamed carrots or cold tapioca appear before him.

Men do not change; they unmask themselves.

When women oppose themselves to the projects and ambition of men, they excite their lively resentment; if in their youth they meddle with political intrigues, their modesty must suffer.

Africa north of the Sahara, from a zoological point of view, is now, and has been since early Tertiary times, a part of Europe. This is true both of animals and of the races of man.

Don't come crawlin' to a man for love-he likes to get a run for his money.

Men would wither and custom stale them, but diamonds! Ah, they were crystallized immortality!

Dennis Thatcher, husband of Margaret Thatcher, when asked who wore the pants in his house, said "I do, and I also wash and iron them." I only like two kinds of men; domestic and foreign.

Some women pick men to marry--and others pick them to pieces.

I'm 37 and I was told recently I was too old to play the lover of a man who was 55. It was astonishing to me. It made me feel bad, and then it made me feel angry, and then it made me laugh.

If a single man demanded as much as a man with a wife and four children, then that would be a violation of the concept of economic equality.

A great man may not do great things but they do ordinary things greatly.

Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.

Nonviolence is the virtue of the manly. The coward is innocent of it.

No two men are absolutely alike, not even twins, yet there is much that is indispensably common to all mankind.

If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior

The willing sacrifice of the innocents is the most powerful retort to insolent tyranny that has yet to be conceived by God or man.