Men Quotes

There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.

Yale men do not like to be told anything by people who didn't go to Yale. The closest I came to Yale was once I had one of their padlocks.

The doctrine that man is infinitely tough and resourceful and not easily cheated of his freedom to sin.

I finally accepted Jesus. not as my personal savior, but as a man I intend to borrow money from.

What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?

Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest for things a long way off.

There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime.

The commonest man, who has his ounce of sense and feeling, is conscious of the difference between a lovely, delicate woman and a coarse one. Even a dog feels a difference in her presence.

Man may content himself with the applause of the world and the homage paid to his intellect, but woman's heart has holier idols.

I'm going to teach you about men. Distances are like men. Never grab the first one you see; it's never the best one, more will come along.

A President is neither prince nor pope, and I don't seek a window on men's souls. In fact, I yearn for a greater tolerance, an easy-goingness about each other's attitudes and way of life.

Consider carefully before you say a hard word to a man, but never let a chance to say a good one go by. Praise judiciously bestowed is money invested.

There is one excuse for every mistake a man can make, but only one. When a fellow makes the same mistake twice he's got to throw up both hands and own up to carelessness or cussedness.

Wit, without wisdom, is salt without meat; and that is but a comfortless dish to set a hungry man down to.

I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.

I do not myself believe there is any misfortune. What men call such is merely the shadowside of a good.

There are many questions which fools can ask that wise men cannot answer.

Knowledge has no enemy except an ignorant man.

a man who hates music can’t be trusted, I always say.

Valar Morghulis - All men must die.

A man agrees with god as a raindrop agrees with the storm

I'm convinced that, in the end, art is not for the artist but for their fellow man.

Never was a person more mortified than I was at this time, to see so fair an opportunity to push a victory; Detroit lost for want of a few men.

There is only one sort of discipline - PERFECT DISCIPLINE. Men cannot have good battle discipline and poor administrative discipline.

What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.

For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.

A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character.

Plasticity loves new moulds because it can fill them, but for a man of sluggish mind and bad manners there is decidedly no place like home.

It is not society's fault that most men seem to miss their vocation. Most men have no vocation.

A scientist should be the happiest of men.

The most certain way to make a man your enemy is to tell him you esteem him such.

I never say anything of a man that I have the smallest scruple of saying to him.

It's better to break a man's leg than his heart.

Most men find it difficult to remain true to a single woman, but relatively easy to be true to three or four at the same time.

My dad has more sparkly stuff than most men.

There are men whom one hates until a certain moment when one sees, through a chink in their armour, the writhing of something nailed down and in torment.

The relationship between an actor and a director is like a love story between a man and a woman. I'm sure sometimes I'm the woman.

O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed.

The wit of men compared to that of women is like rouge compared to the rose.

Man is free, but his freedom ceases when he has no faith in it[.

The primary paradox of Christianity is that the ordinary condition of man is not his sane or sensible condition; that the normal itself is an abnormality.

Men in England are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by brutes who refuse them bread, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern, and therefore wish to enslave.

There must be some good in the life of battle, for so many good men have enjoyed being soldiers.

A modern man may disapprove of some of his sweeping reforms, and approve others; but finds it difficult not to admire even where he does not approve.

Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.

There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived.

For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image of the king.

Thinking man's crumpet? Well, it's more flattering than being a lobotomised man's crumpet, I suppose.

Always making sure I'm clean. And that's truly what it's about. I think it's a lot of misconceptions about what a man is, what a thug is, and all that kind of stuff.