Men Quotes

Where, where for shelter shall the guilty fly, When consternation turns the good man pale?

The man that blushes is not quite a brute.

Man maketh a death which Nature never made.

As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.

The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction.

In vain we build the city if we do not first build the man.

There is a serious and resolute egotism that makes a man interesting to his friends and formidable to his opponents.

Death--some form of termination--is the universal ending of all living things; but only man, by virtue of his verbally reportable introspective life, can conceptualize his own cessation.

A wise man who cultivates wisdom may sometimes drown in it.

We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.

Some men can get results if kindly encouraged, but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell.

The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion

Let a man once see himself as others see him, and all enthusiasm vanishes from his heart.

A man's acts are usually right, but his reasons seldom are.

The Great Man is a man who lives a long way off.

A man ought never to trust another mans evaluation of a third mans disposition.

A democracy without faith is just a machine without power. Nothing can make it function except faith in itself, in the ordinary man and woman.

There was a thoughtful frown on the face of the man who was the possessor of twenty million dollars.

The freedom of man, I contend, is the freedom to eat.

There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

A man who is fighting for the future of mankind is not waiting for torture, he's waiting for -- the Revolution.

I'm not interested in making movies only with female protagonists. I think it's ridiculous to think that a female director can't direct men. That makes no sense to me.

What frightens me is that men are content with what is not life at all.

Unless you can feel when the song is done No other is sweet in its rhythm; Unless you can feel when left by one That all men else go with him.

A man that can cook you a proper meal that is like a weekday meal - which I think cannot be better than in the form of a roast chicken - that's the greatest.

...congenital killers and criminals are possessed of not one but two Y chromosomes, bearing a double dose, as it were, of genetically undesirable maleness.

Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.

it is usually in better taste to praise an isolated action or a production of genius, than a man's character as a whole.

I grew up always hanging out with boys, and I always wanted to play rock 'n' roll with boys, and so I've always acted kind of like a man.

I'm sure men have their own ways of trying to demean one another, but women can be very gossipy and judgmental, and that doesn't help.

After all, you can't expect men not to judge by appearances.

No two men living at the same time live in the same time.

But there are things in Il Sogno that the methods of The Delivery Man could never achieve.

I know that when I make a record like The Delivery Man as a contrast to even Il Sogno, this is going to reach a wider audience, because it communicates in that very direct way.

Man, I was tame compared to what they do now. Are you kidding? I didn't do anything but just jiggle.

There is not much difference between a mortal man and a dying man. The absurdity of making plans is only slightly more obvious in the second case.

What every man who loves his country hopes for in his inmost heart: the suppression of half his compatriots.

Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive.

Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.

Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society.

I may look like a nice Jewish girl from New Jersey, but inside I'm a 50-year-old, heavyset black man with a big thumb, like Wes Montgomery.

My soul is possessed by this devil my new name is Rain Man.

Britney Spears has shoulders like a man.

Mankind has been punished long and heavily for having created its gods; nothing but pain and persecution have been man's lot since gods began.

What is it that every man seeks? To be secure, to be happy, to do what he pleases without restraint and without compulsion.

When a man is proud because he can understand and explain the writings of Chrysippus, say to yourself, 'if Chrysippus had not written obscurely, this man would have had nothing to be proud of.'

It were no slight attainment could we merely fulfil what the nature of man implies.

What men fear is not that death is annihilation but that it is not.

Let no young man delay the study of philosophy, and let no old man become weary of it; for it is never too early nor too late to care for the well-being of the soul.

Man is not in the world to set it right, but to see it rightly.