Men Quotes

I'm looking for a perfume to overpower men - I'm sick of karate.

Have the man at the station put the air in the tires. I did it once myself. Have you ever seen a car with a limp?

The open road is the school of doubt in which man learns faith in man.

As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.

A breeze passes in the night. When did it spring up? Whence does it come? Whither is it going? No man knows.

In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known.

What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we!

A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and his affairs are not neglected by the gods.

Arguments, like men, are often pretenders.

Seven years of silent inquiry are needful for a man to learn the truth, but fourteen in order to learn how to make it known to his fellow-men.

The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, Who in this place set up a sun-dial, To cut and hack my days so wretchedly Into small portions.

Hope is a working-man's dream.

Man is neither by birth nor disposition a savage, nor of unsocial habits, but only becomes so by indulging in vices contrary to his nature.

What most of all enables a man to serve the public is not wealth, but content and independence; which, requiring no superfluity at home, distracts not the mind from the common good.

A thirst for the infinite is indelibly present in human beings. Man was created to have a relationship with God; we need him.

The seriousness of ecological degradation lays bare the depth of man's moral crisis... Simplicity, moderation, and discipline as well as the spirit of sacrifice must become a part of everyday life.

Christ assigns as a duty to every man the dignity of every woman: and simultaneously... He also assigns to every woman the dignity of every man.

Christ's commandment to hear the Church . . . is binding on all men, in every period, and every country.

Climate change should be seen as the greatest challenge to face man and treated as a much bigger priority in the United Kingdom.

It is a most miserable lot to be without an enemy. [No man can be successful without being envied and hated.]

One step at a time, a man walked on the moon. One record got played, Kool Herc said, 'Boom!'

To wanna be me is to go through not just the good but the bad. You wanna share my story identically? Man, you gonna take some lumps.

Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): "What's the matter, sexy? Don't you like dehydrated fruit?

The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides

What better proof of love can there be than money? A ten-shilling note shows incontrovertibly just how mad about you a man is.

The most creative or versatile to date...I don't know, man. That's a good question. I didn't really think about that.

One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding an engagement, Fabius exhausted the resources of the enemy.]

Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.

It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.

Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be alone and the only one who is searching for the Other.

Neath tile or thatch That man is rich Who has a scratch For every itch.

See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.

A great man represents a great ganglion in the nerves of society, or to vary the figure, a strategic point in the campaign of history, and part of his greatness consists in his being there.

Each movie was a challenge for me, as a man, as an actor. After each movie, something changed in my life, in my character.

I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.

Let me be loved like that, by a man who will not replace me with concubines when I'm old and ugly. Let me be loved by a man who loves God more than me.

Oh yes!...The sweet summons of God to man. That's when He calls you up to His arms. And it's the most beautiful thing, a rebirth, a new life. But, just the same I'm in no rush to find out.

The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.

There is no man who is not, at each moment, what he has been and what he will be.

All that Our Lord heeds in a man's life is the relationship of worth to His Father.

Let the poor man mind his tongue

Its easy to gauge the worth of a man, just ask them what they think of Yoko Ono.

But no earthly foot can step between a man and his destiny.

I hyperventilate opening a box of chocolates. I'm the most nervous guy in the world, a frightened little man on red alert from when I wake until I go to sleep. I was born with fear.

In dreams and visions lie the greatest creations of man, for on them rests no yoke of line or hue.

As long as men are men, a poor society cannot be too poor to find a right order of life, nor a rich society too rich to have need to seek it.

As long as a man does not sin, he is feared. As soon as he sins, he himself is in fear.

If it is necessary to die in order to live like men, what harm in dying?

Some day I shall sing to thee in the sunrise of some other world, I have seen thee before in the light of the earth, in the love of man.

Man discovers his own wealth when God comes to ask gifts of him.