Men Quotes

Men who could willingly resign the luxuries and sensual pleasures of a large fortune cannot consent to live without the grandeur and the homage.

The life of a solitary man will be certainly miserable, but not certainly devout.

A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

I also admit, that there are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits which are not good till they are rotten.

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by experience of its contrary.

Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves.

Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.

Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.

Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good.

His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.

Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotch man happy!

What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.

A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.

A man who insults the modesty of a woman, as good as tells her that he has seen something in her conduct that warranted his presumption.

Vast is the field of Science... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.

Rakes are more suspicious than honest men.

A man who attempts to read all the new productions must do as the flea does,--skip.

Example is a motive of very prevailing force on the actions of men.

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

All that is great in man comes through work; and civilization is its product.

Commonplace though it may appear, this doing of one's duty embodies the highest ideal of life and character. There may be nothing heroic about it; but the common lot of men is not heroic.

If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.

Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.

There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.

A bitter and perplexed "What shall I do?" Is worse to man than worse necessity.

All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection.

A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare.

Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people.

Call not that man wretched, who whatever else he suffers as to pain inflicted, or pleasure denied, has a child for whom he hopes and on whom he doats.

Never underestimate a man's ability to underestimate a woman.

Oh, Mama was a smart woman. It takes a smart woman to fall in love with a good man.

The man can only ride you when your back is bent.

God is one; there are not many Gods, one for each tribe among men.

Man has boyhood, adolescence, youth, middle age and senescence, as stages of growth; there are also corresponding stages in the growth of wisdom in him.

It is a world not of angels but of angles, where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles; a world where we are always moral and our enemies always immoral.

I've always been a true believer that if men had babies, nobody would be trying to tell them what they can and can't do with their bodies.

The water caught the Falselight glimmer like layers of shifting, translucent mirrors and formed split-second works of art in the air, but men cursed it anyway, because it made their heads wet.

The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there.

More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso.

That difference do you think you can make, one man in all this madness?

I'm ready to see that new RZA movie [The Man With The Iron Fists] too, it looks kind of Tarantino-ish.

No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.