Men Quotes

If you talk you always end up with politics, it gets nowhere. I mean man it's strictly from the soft typewriter.

The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets.

Yes, the idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn't know any better.

I will not choose what many men desire, Because I will not jump with common spirits And rank me with the barbarous multitudes.

Every man has a bag hanging before him, in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own.

Don't judge a man's conscience by looking at his face cause he may have a bad heart.

Such antics do not amount to a man.

Men's eyes were made to look, and let them gaze. I will not budge for no man's pleasure.

Tis no sin for a man to labor in his vocation.

But pearls are fair; and the old saying is: Black men are pearls in beauteous ladies' eyes.

Two loves I have, of comfort and despair, Which like two spirits do suggest me still: The better angel is a man right fair, The worser spirit a woman coloured ill.

Glendower: I can call the spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come, when you do call for them?

He is the most wretched of men who has never felt adversity.

Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man.

It is criminal negligence to leave suckers lying around to tempt honest men.

A gentleman is a man who is only rude when he intends to be.

Old men make war, young men fight and die

Some people did not like this ceremonious style. But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.

The doubts of an honest man contain more moral truth than the profession of faith of people under a worldly yoke.

There is not a man who does not get senile by the time he reaches sixty. And when one thinks that he will not be senile, he is already so.

The ancient God created the old man, capable of erring - thus he erred himself.

When I perform, it's definitely about duration. I don't play any kind of time signature known to man.

Can a man cling to the positive without any negative in contrast to which it is seen to be positive? If he claims to do so he is a rouge or a madman.

The men of old breathed clear down to their heels.

The man who has some respect for his person keeps his carcass out of sight, hides himself as perfectly as he can.

All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.

If you follow the course of one man through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment from it.

He who look at a woman who is not his wife as a mother; wealth that is not his as dust and all the men as himself... is a happy man. He, who sees all these things under a different light, is a blind.

Trees on a riverbank, a woman in another man's house, and kings without counselors go without doubt to swift destruction.

Say, Cuttino. What are those Godawful clothes you're wearing? Man, this ain't Rhode Island anymore. You're in the NBA. The girls have teeth here.

My soul travels on the smell of perfume like the souls of other men on music.

Each man's hell is in a different place: mine is just up and behind my ruined face.

The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.

The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.

The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.

I long to set foot where no man has trod before.

Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.

You will profit by the failure, and will avoid it another time. I have done a similar thing myself, in construction, often. Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn.

A man can well afford to be as bold as brass, my good fellow, when he gets gold in exchange!

Time has been lost and opportunity thrown away, but I am yet a young man, and may retrieve it.

When the first just and friendly man appeared on the earth, from that day a fatal Waterloo was visible for all the men of pride and fraud and blood.

He [man] knows that when he is not what he ought to be; when he does what he ought not to do; or omits what he ought to do, he is chargeable with sin

This is the feeling that gives a man true courage-the feeling that he has a work to do at all costs; the sense of duty.

In the liberal remake of 'Casablanca,' the police captain comes upon the scene of the shooting and orders his men to 'round up the usual weapons.' It's always the weapon and never the shooter.

As I go about I see a lot of "coffin" men. They have room for themselves and nobody else.

From a poor man, poor in Time, I was suddenly lifted up into a vast revenue; I could see no end of my possessions; I wanted some steward, or judicious bailiff, to manage my estates in Time for me.

How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty.

What kind of man would live a life without daring? Is life so sweet that we should criticize men that seek adventure? Is there a better way to die?

It was a profound saying of Wilhelm Humboldt, that 'Man is man only by means of speech, but in order to invent speech he must be already man.'

I have yet to meet the famous Rational Economic Man theorists describe. Real people have always done inexplicable things from time to time, and they show no sign of stopping.