Men Quotes

There is not a man in America who has not had a secret ambition to boot an infant.

It is impossible to find twelve fair men in all the world.

A man who's intoxicated all the time doesn't need sympathy.

A comic should suffer as much over a single line as a man with a hernia would in picking up a heavy barbell.

I taught myself to name my name, To bark back, loosen love and crying; To ease my woman so she came, To ease an old man who was dying.

To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?

A writer is a maker, not a man of action: his private life is of no concern to anybody but himself, his family and his friends.

Now the answer ... is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.

Charm and nothing but charm at last grows a little tiresome. It's a relief then to deal with a man who isn't quite so delightful but a little more sincere.

I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos.

No man has yet become so great in any faculty but that it is possible for some one else to become greater.

As a child I went to a circus. They had a man shot out of a cannon into a net. I became intrigued with what was going on.

I'd like to be a song and dance man.

Men fall into a routine when they are tired and slack: it has all the appearance of activity with few of its burdens.

A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his own certainty.

The self-evident truth which makes men invincible is that inalienably they are inviolable persons.

The greatest asset of man is man. The wealth of any man is dependent upon the wealth of every other man. Abundance for one is impossible in an impoverished world.

A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.

The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.

True love's the gift which God has given to man alone beneath the heaven.

Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives! Fight on; death is better than defeat! Fight on brave knights! for bright eyes behold your deeds!

I was not always a man of woe.

We got to stop doing that, ladies. You know, men are dogs. Men are dogs. We got to stop it. Men are not dogs. Uh-uh. Dogs are loyal.

A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.

Women's vulnerability confessing their desire to see men as a success object is matched by men's confession of compulsiveness of sexual desire for women.

Without children, men have more liberty to earn less - that is, they are free to pursue more fulfilling and less lucrative careers, like writing or art or teaching social studies.

It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men.

No man knows himself as an original.

No man knows what the wife of his bosom is until he has gone with her through the fiery trials of this world.

I'd rather rely on mother nature's wisdom than man's cleverness

It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world

A wise man once remarked that we can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.

Men still had faults, and men will have them still; He that hath none, and lives as angels do, Must be an angel.

Without language, it is safe to say that man would not have become fully human.

It is the basic evasion of the essential which is the problem of man.

Government, religion, property, books, are nothing but the scaffolding to build men. Earth holds up to her master no fruit like the finished man.

In the moral world there is nothing impossible if we can bring a thorough will to it. Man can do everything with himself, but he must not attempt to do too much with others.

Let's not be too quick to blame the human race for everything. A great many species of animals became extinct before man ever appeared on earth.

Modern society has not rid itself of religion, as it fondly believes; it has merely replaced the historical religions by a host of idolatrous cults struggling for possession of the soul of man.

There are three types of men in the world. One type learns from books. One type learns from observations. And one type just has to urinate on the electric fence himself.

Everyone is a self-made man. Only the successful admit it.

You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness.

An economist is a man that can tell you...what can happen under any given condition, and his guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's too.

Texas is a great state. It's the 'Old Man River' of states. No matter who runs it or what happens to it politically, it just keeps rolling along!

It looks like the financial giants of the world have bungled as much as the diplomats and politicians. This would be a great time in the world for some man to come along that knew something.

A man can be a parent without knowing it: a woman cannot.

No town can keep a man, but men keep towns.

While as he yet doth breath extend, no man is blest; behold the end.

Whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of man which God put there when we got our manhood.

Does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men's work?