Men Quotes

There is an old poor man,. . . . Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger.

If she be not honest, chaste, and true, there's no man happy.

My business was great, and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy.

To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast!

For many men that stumble at the threshold are well foretold that danger lurks within.

Do all men kill the things they do not love?

Ships are but boards, sailors but men.

Me, poor man, my library Was dukedom large enough.

We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves And spend our flatteries to drink those men Upon whose age we void it up again With poisonous spite and envy.

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

Tis a blushing shame-faced spirit that mutinies in a man's bosom. It fills a man full of obstacles. It made me once restore a purse of gold that (by chance) I found. It beggars any man that keeps it.

The woman most in need of liberation is the woman in every man and the man in every woman.

For the next inn he spurs amain, In haste alights, and skuds away, But time and tide for no man stay.

Men are we, and must grieve when even the shade Of that which once was great is passed away.

And much it grieved my heart to think What man has made of man.

We bow our heads before Thee, and we laud, And magnify thy name Almighty God! But man is thy most awful instrument, In working out a pure intent.

There are men in the world who derive an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as other from success.

Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory !!

Imagination, realm of enchantment!- which the most beneficent of beings bestowed upon man to console him for reality- I must quit you now.

One may as well go, as look into another man's house; because the eye may reach what the hand cannot.

A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death.

There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might be the most immoral desire a man can possess.

Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her.

I have knocked on the door of this man's soul and found someone home.

Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is.

The most important thing my father taught me is that every man has to stand up for his rights.

Taint no law on earth dat kin make a man be decent if it aint in 'im.

Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear, and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom.

Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists.

History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men.

The difference between the smartest dog and the stupidest man - say a Tennessee Holy Roller - is really very small.

Man, at his best, remains a sort of one-lunged animal, never completely rounded and perfect, as a cockroach, say, is perfect.

No sane man objects to palpable lies about him; what he objects to is damaging facts.

The common man knows exactly what he wants...and deserves to get it good and hard.

The prophesying business is like writing fugues; it is fatal to every one save the man of absolute genius.

Truly wealth, which men spend all their lives in acquiring, is a valueless thing at the last.

I guess you could say I have bad taste in men. But I no longer feel the need to be someone's wife.

I think all women in all industries have more obstacles than men.

Let us ease the Roman people of their continual care, who think it long to await the death of an old man.

One cannot quite trust the word of potted flowers," thought the butterfly; "they have too much to do with men.

St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the Divine. That is why all pre-Christian philosophy is theological at its summit.

Fools live in fear, a wise man lives in strength.

There is a land where a man, to live, must be a man.

Nothing is more sterile or lamentable than the man content to live within himself.

I know now what he was trying to do, but Atticus was only a man. It takes a woman to do that kind of work.

In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men's.

A man has to know his limitations.

I used to teach at Yale, which was at one time a center of postmodernist literary theory. Derrida was there. Paul de Man was there.

Never insult seven men if you're only carrying a six shooter.

I received a card the other day from Steve Early which said, "Don't Worry Me--I am an 8 Ulcer Man on 4 Ulcer Pay.