Men Quotes

Man's principle trait is a readiness to believe anything. Otherwise, how could the Church have survived for almost two thousand years in the absense of universal gullibility?

A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

Anyhow they’re always exceptions. But most women, their only relationship to a man is having. Either owning or being owned.

It did not matter, after all. He was only one man. One man's fate is not important. "If it is not, what is?" He could not endure those remembered words.

I'd rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer.

The only thing that a man may do that is new, is to write himself on human hearts.

This is the sin against the Holy Ghost: - To speak of bloody power as right divine, And call on God to guard each vile chief's house, And for such chiefs, turn men to wolves and swine.

I was just getting tired of the image bullshit...that man of mystery trip and what have you. What's that all about?

The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an Orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them.

If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?

Presumably man's spirit should be elevated if he can better review his shady past and analyze more completely and objectively his present problems.

Publishing companies and a great many authors have missed the opportunity to capitalize on the very real relationships they create with their readers.

In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended.

Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory.

Art is the expression of a man's life, of his mode of being, of his relations with the universe, since it is, in fact, man's inarticulate answer to the universe's unspoken message.

No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.

If you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.

Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

The miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.

God has bestowed two gifts on man: hope and ignorance. Ignorance is the better of the two.

God put in man thought; society, action; nature, revery.

Whom man kills, him God restoreth to life.

If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.

A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

I like men with some belly who are a little over the hill.

To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.

Catfish Hunter was a man among men. He was a genuine person. There was nothing phony about him. I learned a lot from him, both on and off the baseball field.

It's like getting the Williams sisters to play (tennis) against a man, and they're far better athletes than she (Sorenstam) is.

At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.

Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him—mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp.

Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.

A man is known by the company he owns.

If a man is running down the street with everything you own, you won't let him get away. That's tackling.

There is something good in men that really yearn for discipline.

I hope that this man can be won over by your bearing charitably with him, advising him prudently, and praying for him. This is what I do for your family in general and for you in particular.

Old wives' tales are not enough in a day when old wives and old men, too, are constantly moving away from their labours.

I feel the need of relations and friendship, of affection, of friendly intercourse.... I cannot miss these things without feeling, as does any other intelligent man, a void and a deep need.

All of my shows involve men in tights. It's a bit bizarre, really.

Every man makes a god of his own desire

Each man is led by his own liking.

Through pain I've learned to comfort suffering men

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man.

madam," the man cried, leaping to the ground, "you're hurt!" "I'm dead, sir!" she replied. A few minutes later, they became engaged.

Biography is to give a man some kind of shape after his death.

Feminists wish women to seem like men. They're not men.