Men Quotes

Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness.

When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire.

Give me 100 men that hate nothing but sin, and love Jesus Christ, and we'll shake England for God.

Of travel I've had my share, man, I've been everywhere.

Understand your man, meditate on it.

I'm a big fan of revenge, I think [Sweeney Todd] it's a story of a man who clearly has obsessions to avenge the horror that happened to him.

Anytime you get men in glitter, it's a flamboyant occasion!

I just... want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress. Just for a few minutes more.

I also like men who have hands with big masculine veins that you can squish and move.

The basic postulate from which I start is that the goal of the social sciences is the liberation of man.

I would sit in at a jazz brunch [at sweet Basil] with Eddie Chamblee, who was a great tenor player. Really a kind man. The whole band was great.

But Opera Man, I go, "Oh, crap! Why didn't I think of that?" Because I could sing fake opera pretty good.

I think the main thing that has to end is men's defensiveness.

There are men who strike at liberty under the term licentiousness

This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.

For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door

Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.

Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.

The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.

The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.

No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.

In fact I'm in too much of a mental muddle to know where I am - an idealist or not. I'm a mere man of letters, and I do what I can with those subjects.

Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.

Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.

The heart of man does not tolerate an absence of the excellent and supreme.

Men play at tragedy because they do not believe in the reality of the tragedy which is actually being staged in the civilised world

No, there are three people in a marriage, there's the woman, there's the man, and there's what I call the third person, the most important, the person who is composed of the man and woman together.

I don't doubt that a man can live perfectly well on his own, but I'm convinced that he begins to die as soon as he closes the door of his house behind him.

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.

If ridicule were employed to laugh men out of vice and folly, it might be of some use.

A man whose extraordinary reputation thus lifts him up to the notice and observation of mankind, draws a multitude of eyes upon him, that will narrowly inspect every part of him.

There is nothing in which men more deceive themselves than in what they call zeal.

O ye powers that search The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts, If I have done amiss, impute it not! The best may err, but you are good.

Instability of temper ought to be checked when it disposes men to wander from one scheme to another: since such a fickleness cannot but be attended with fatal consequences.

Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible.

Every man is a plastic artist who must determine things for himself.

Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.

Man was not breathed into the earth. Man came out of the earth.

The secret of solitude is that there is no solitude.

The Bible shows the clear statement of God's purposes concerning the earth, and man once made its prince. Its opening chapters show that it was intended for man's instruction.

Garments that have once one rent in them are subject to be torn on every nail, and glasses that are once cracked are soon broken; such is man's good name once tainted with just reproach.

A man's head is his castle.

Men make history, but they can never know the history they are making.

Happy is the man who can do only one thing; in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.

Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man.

Men who live valiantly and die nobly have a strength and a courage from the eternal Father.

Men who have much to say use the fewest words.

The man who has never been tempted doesn't know how dishonest he is.

Men of genius are like eagles, they live on what they kill, while men of talents are like crows, they live on what has been killed for them.

If you want to grow, find men who provoke you.