Men Quotes

What you see at fight club is a generation of men raised by women.

..."And then we played Ping-Pong—” “Not pool? I always assumed he was a billiards man—I mean, it’s so handy the way he keeps a stick up his—

Don't fall in love with your leading man. Of course, that's just what I did.

I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.

All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

Real friendships among men are so rare that when they occur they are famous.

What could be said about me...a man to whom only his painting matters? And of course his garden and his flowers as well.

Nature has placed his own happiness in each man's hands, if he only knew how to use it.

I never killed a man who didn't need it.

Some must delve when the dawn is nigh; Some must toil when the noonday beams; But when might comes, and the soft winds sigh, Every man is a King of Dreams.

The first language that I learned was Italian in Italy in the early and middle-'60s and I had to do that to keep up with the young men who were courting my wife.

In our timidity and our shoddy opportunism we are always stirred when a man appears on the horizon willing to stake his all on a conviction.

A well dressed man is a best accessory a woman can have

I have a conscience, man, and I've worked really hard to keep it where you would feel like you were talking to the same man at one of my shows or sitting down at my dinner table.

You can separate the men from the boys and ballads.

Let it [racism] be a problem to someone else... Let it drag them down. Don't use it as an excuse for your own shortcomings.

...she looked like the sort of woman most men would want to get to know because they weren't sure what went on inside.

I'm a black man that is proud to be black, and I want to help the black community, but I love all mankind.

A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals.

If I cannot get men who steer a middle course to associate with, I would far rather have the impetuous and hasty. For the impetuous at any rate assert themselves.

While the gentleman cherishes benign rule, the small man cherishes his native land. While the gentleman cherishes a respect for the law, the small man cherishes generous treatment.

A superior man is one who is free from fear and anxieties

The proper man understands equity, the small man profits.

That a man lives is because he is straight. That a man who dupes others survives is because he has been fortunate enough to be spared.

The Path is not far from man. When men try to pursue a course, which is far from the common indications of consciousness, this course cannot be considered The Path.

Not knowing life, how can we know death? Why talk of spirits when you do not understand men?

The superior man limits his achievements.

A good man does not make a warrior, just as good steel does not go for nails.

Reviewing the day's lessons. Isn't it joyful? Friends come from far. Isn't it delightful? One has never been angry at other's misunderstanding. Isn't he a respectable man?

While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead...While you do not know life, how can you know about death

The good man does not grieve that other people do not recognize his merits. His only anxiety is lest he should fail to recognize theirs.

Let every man consider virtue as what devolves on himself. He may not yield the performance of it even to his teacher.

Men respect the silent; they despise the garrulous. - Marius

Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.

Hard weather, says the old man. So let it be. Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will wash rain like the stones.

The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down." -The Judge

Four inch nails is more like it!

Love wakes men, once a lifetime each; They lift their heavy lids, and look; And, lo, what one sweet page can teach They read with joy, then shut the book.

I used to love going fishing. I think it was really about the clothes. Nothing says real man like a vest with 38 pockets and a mesh hat with hooks in it.

Even the incorruptible are corruptible if they cannot accept the possibility of being mistaken. Infallibility is a sin in any man. All laws can be broken and are. Often.

It is soldiers who pay most of the human cost. In war it is extraordinary how it all comes down to the character of one man.

Men are capable of talking hours on end over only one subject; women do it and don't even require a subject.

You can imagine what it was like for me to actually be sitting in a room with matching typewriters, working under the tutelage of this guy I so admired, both as a filmmaker and as a man.

It's never that hard for me to imagine what it must feel like to be someone else, whether it's an American teenage girl or a Japanese octogenarian man

The Expulsion from Eden is an act of vindictive womanish spite; the Fall of Man, as recounted in the Bible, comes nearer to the Fall of God.

The love between man and woman is the greatest and most complete passion the world will ever see, because it is dual, because it is of two opposing kinds.

I am in love and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man.

Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose.

[On Nijinksy:] Ah, he took my breath away! The body that man had, the controlled power, the iron fragility. He was a note of music. He was dance!

I never had ambition to become president of the state or to accomplish more than men.