Men Quotes

A man who will not get scared on some occasions, lacks good sense.

When a man asks your advice, he usually tells you just how he expects you to decide.

It is not easy to free myth from reality or rear this fellow up to lutch, lurch with them in the tranced dancing of men.

The Marine Corps ... took a boy and made him a man.

This is still a young man's game, so we have to stay young. Music allows you to do that, especially rock'n'roll.

Are you woman enough to be my man?

When the world is storm-driven and bad things happen, then we need to know all the strong fortresses of the spirit which men have built through the ages.

I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.

The public interest requires doing today those things that men of intelligence and good will would wish, five or ten years hence, had been done.

I consider how little man is, yet, in his own mind, how great. He is lord and master of all things, yet scarce can command anything.

The marketplace obliges men, whether they will or not, in pursuing their own selfish interests, to connect the general good with their own individual success.

Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.

I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.

There is no God. But it does not matter. Man is enough.

You cannot imagine the wild enthusiasm that these two men created in Vienna. Newspapers went into raptures over each new waltz, and innumerable articles appeared about Lanner and Strauss.

[W]e are prone to forget that the planet may be measured by man, but not according to man.

Three words remain that can yet stir the blood of man: the word 'rebellion'; the word 'revolt'; the word 'revolution'.

Every man loves and admires his own country because it produced him.

Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.

Talk not of genius baffled. Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.

Of all the virtues necessary to the completion of the perfect man, there is none to be more delicately implied and less ostentatiously vaunted than that of exquisite feeling or universal benevolence.

Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which of the two takes the sunny side; he will be the younger man of the two.

Not in the knowledge of things without, but in the perfection of the soul within, lies the empire of man aspiring to be more than man.

The brave man wants no charms to encourage him to his duty, and the good man scorns all warnings that would deter him from fulfilling it.

To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart.

In the hour of strait and need, we measure men's stature not by the body, but the soul!

The public man needs but one patron, namely, the lucky moment.

Debt is to man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes sinew and bone, its jaw is the pitiless grave.

Each man forms his duty according to his predominant characteristic; the stern require an avenging judge; the gentle, a forgiving father. Just so the pygmies declared that Jove himself was a pygmy.

Basically, man, I just love myself.

It is not great talents or great learning or great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God.

All I can hope to teach my son is to tell the truth and fear no man.

New York is one of man's greatest achievements.

At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.

The man of wisdom is the man of years.

When men of infamy to grandeur soar, They light a torch to show their shame the more.

Each thing lives according to its kind; the heart by love, the intellect by truth, the higher nature of man by intimate communion with God.

The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.

Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

When trouble comes, wise men take to their work; weak men take to the woods.

Theology is an attempt to explain a subject by men who do not understand it. The intent is not to tell the truth but to satisfy the questioner.

Responsibiliti es gravitate to the man who can shoulder them and the power to him who knows how

Some men succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are.

Insomnia never comes to a man who has to get up exactly at six o'clock. Insomnia troubles only those who can sleep any time.

Men whose lives are doubtful want a strong government and a hot religion

Blessed is the man who has found someone to do his work.

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she dares

It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.

Martyrs and persecutors are the same type of man. As to which is the persecutor and which the martyr, this is only a question of transient power.

Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters.