Men Quotes

Every reform by violence is to be deprecated, because it does little to correct the evil while men remain as they are, and because wisdom has no need of violence.

Go take the mother's soul, and learn three truths: Learn What dwells in man, What is not given to man , and What men live by . When thou hast learnt these things, thou shalt return to heaven.

Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universe--he has no other--and that instrument is reason.

I am sure that nothing has such a decisive influence upon a man's course as his personal appearance, and not so much his appearance as his belief in its attractiveness or unattractiveness.

All men equal in rights and duties, all men equally responsible for the destiny of mankind - what a dream!

Money enhances a man, yes, as beauty enhances a woman.

And most people have a woman in their heart, most men have a woman in their heart and most women have a man in their heart.

I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life.

What one needs to know in order to appraise a man morally is not: what did his mother say or do when he was three? The proper question is: what does he say and do now?

Most men are of naught more use in their lives but as machines for turning food into sh*t.

When a woman weeps, it is a man's shame.

Who strikes man with love -- God or the Devil?

To find his own salvation, a man must first find the fool locked inside himself and set it free.

God made the integers, all the rest is the work of man.

Man desires, woman is desired.

Women love hairy men. Cavemen were the sexiest men in history.

In days gone by, a man's word was his bond. Today, fortunately, we have glue.

I've never been the wilting flower. I've never been the girl who's subservient to a man.

My wife has lived with at least five different men since we were wed - and each of the five has been me.

Johnny Vassilaros is the man who has created the finest cup of coffee ever served in the city of New York.

You are old Father William,' the young man said, 'and your hair has become very white; and yet you incessantly stand on your head-do you think, at your age, it is right?

Men meet; mountains, never.

Let's give it up for the Secret Service. I don't want to be too hard on those guys. You know, because they're the only law enforcement agency that will get in trouble if a black man gets shot.

Man is a sad mammal that combs its hair.

What is at stake is human dignity. If a man is not accorded respect he cannot respect himself and if he does not respect himself, he cannot demand it.

You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .

He who is prepared for the future and he who deals cleverly with any situation that may arise are both happy; but the fatalistic man who wholly depends on luck is ruined.

Save your wealth against future calamity. Do not say, "what fear has a rich man of calamity?" Wealth sometimes vanishes away and large accumulations perish.

The man who remains a fool even in advanced age is really a fool, just as the Indra-Varuna fruit does not become sweet no matter how ripe it might become.

Surely this new age is not a repudiation of, but a fulfillment of, the American dream. What were the machines for, unless to give man a new freedom to choose how he would live?

Half Man, Half Sit-Out-The-Season.

Man loves man so much that when he flees the city, it is still to seek the crowd, that is, to rebuild the city in the country.

Being a useful man has always seemed to me to be something truly hideous.

The worst men have the best jobs the best men have the worst jobs or are unemployed or locked in madhouses.

Sometimes a man doesn’t know what to do about things and sometimes it’s best to lie very still and try not to think at all about anything.

To me Art (poetry) is a continuous and continuing process and that when a man fails to write good poetry he fails to live fully or well.

some men never die and some men never live but we're all alive tonight.

A woman must be nursed into subsistence by love, where a man can become stronger by being hated." - from 'Cows in Art Class

When fiction rises pleasing to the eye, men will believe, because they love the lie; but truth herself, if clouded with a frown, must have some solemn proof to pass her down.

Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.

The Romans believed that what no man controls, no man can own. Justinian, writing in the sixth century AD, said that the air, flowing water, the sea and the seashore were common to all.

The normal food of man is vegetable.

[T]he young and the old of widely different races, both with man and animals, express the same state of mind by the same movements.

A republic cannot succeed, till it contains a certain body of men imbued with the principles of justice and honour.

Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.

The habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense.

There is something good in all weathers. If it doesn't happen to be good for my work today, it's good for some other man's today... and will come around for me tomorrow.

The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men.

Come in, -- come in! and know me better, man! I am the Ghost of Christmas Present. Look upon me! You have never seen the like of me before!

Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking.