Men Quotes
A man may manifest and communicate his joy, but he should conceal and smother his grief as much as possible.
If I had my life to live over I would die fighting rather than be a slave again. I want no man's yoke on my shoulders no more.
Clinton impressed Assad: a young man who appeared to want to be neutral in the Arab-Israeli dispute - an illusion of course, but that's what Assad thought.
Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press.
The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them.
Once as I sat painting, I became aware of a man's face hovering near me, moving closer and closer to the panel I was working on. When he spoke he said, 'That is a fantastic brush!
Upon the great questions of origin, of destiny, of immortality, of . . . other worlds, every honest man must say, 'I do not know.' Upon these questions, this is the creed of intelligence.
A man is not moral because he is obedient through fear or ignorance. Morality lives in the realm of perceived obligation.
There is no evidence that God ever interfered in the affairs of man. The hand of earth is stretched uselessly towards heaven. From the clouds there comes no help.
Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.
The object of all education should be to increase the usefulness of man - usefulness to himself and others.
The natural impulse of men is to follow and whoever has the strongest sense of purpose will always dominate.
The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea.
Men," Thom murmured. "Men who shook the pillars of heaven and rocked the world on its foundations." He shook his head. "It doesn't matter. Forget about them. They are dust now.
Young men can be impetuous, young men can be rush, young men can be fools, but the Car'a'carn cannot let himself be a young man.
The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget.
To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow men a secret element of gusto.
Lastly no woman should marry a teetotaller, or a man who does not smoke. It is not for nothing that this "ignoble tobagie" as Michelet calls it, spreads all over the world.
Profane swearing never did any man any good. No man in the richer or wiser or happier for it.
No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane.
Old man's gotta be the old man. Fish has got to be the fish. Gotta be who you are in this world, no matter what.
A man who has his initials on his pyjamas must be uncertain of himself. Surely you should know who you are at bed time.
Fat men get knocked over by buses no earlier, nor later, than thin men. And I, for one, have buried most of my thin friends.
No man rides harder than my Lord Scamperdale - always goes as if he had a spare neck in his pocket.
Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.
Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.
Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
"You are old, Father William," the young man cried, "The few locks which are left you are gray; You are hale, Father William, a hearty old man,- Now tell me the reason I pray."
Easier were it To hurl the rooted mountain from its base, Than force the yoke of slavery upon men Determin'd to be free.
Man's mind a mirror is of heavenly sights,A brief wherein all marvels summèd lie,Of fairest forms and sweetest shapes the store,Most graceful all, yet thought may grace them more.
Audience response to The Man From U.N.C.L.E. back in the '60s - well, I was frankly surprised by the show's success and the attendant publicity for David and myself.
There have existed, in every age and every country, two distinct orders of men - the lovers of freedom and the devoted advocates of power.
A big man is always accused of gluttony, whereas a wizened or osseous man can eat like a refugee at every meal, and no one ever notices his greed.
The fight isn't over until you win it, Fitz. That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man says.
If survival calls for the bearing of arms, bear them you must. But the most important part of the challenge is for you to find another means that does not come with the killing of your fellow man.
Success means controlling your own time. Time is the most important currency, but once you spend it, man, its gone.
With my old man I got no respect. When he took me hunting he gave me a three minute head start. Then on the way home he tied me to the fender and put the deer in the car.