Men Quotes

Crowds of men are like crowds of sheep. Not the best, but the first leader is usually followed.

Least of all shall we preserve democracy or foster its growth if all the power and most of the important decisions rest with an organization far too big for the common man to survey or comprehend.

Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men.

For men are not equal: thus speaks justice.

The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.

No man ever wrote more eloquently and luminously [than Heraclitus].

That whatever a man says, promises, or resolves in passion he must stick to later on when he is cold and sober--this demand is among the heaviest burdens that weigh on humankind.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that he is very ill, and that a severe, final, radical cure is necessary.

He who thinks a great deal is not suited to be a party man: he thinks his way through the party and out the other side too soon.

The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing.

When a man is in love he endures more than at other times; he submits to everything.

In short, then, the religious cult is based upon the representations of sorcery between man and man, and the sorcerer is older than the priest.

Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not also possessan instinct for the secondary role.

In the true man there is a child concealed who wants to play.

The happy man does not notice the flight of time.

Have Love. Not love alone for one, but man as man they brother call; and scatter like the circling sun thy charities on all.

Men often prove the violence of their own prejudices, even by the violence with which they attack the prejudices of other people.

Men work harder and more readily when they labor on that which is their own.

There are days when I can hear men tying their shoe laces in the gallery.

Perhaps a normal man is supposed to be stupid-how do we know? Perhaps it's even very beautiful.

Nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom. –The Grand Inquisitor

.. But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that along with happiness, in the exact same way, in perfectly equal proportion, man also needs unhappiness

Good work is not done by 'humble' men

The creative life was the only one for a serious man.

Often men believe women are the same, and once they figure what works for one woman they apply that same method to all the other women they are intimate with, and that's one of the major problems.

The difference between a 'wise guy' and a wise man is plenty!

Nothing can be taught to a man, only it's possibly to help him to discover it inside.

Women are skinny for other women. Men want something they can actually hold on to.

Men peak at age nineteen and go downhill.

Some people have a love of their fellow man in their hearts, and others require a light anesthetic.

Once a week, I am a very desperate man.

I've been married 34 years. I have not been a perfect man. I have made mistakes in my life.

I'm the fortieth ugliest man in this bar. But so what! So what!... Isn't this how people used to fall in love?

A man who will be the public leader, must know how to be the public follower.

An ignorant man ages like an ox. His flesh may increase, but not his understanding.

The man who wears the yellow-dyed robe but is not free from stains himself, without self-restraint and integrity, is unworthy of the robe.

The man that is dominated by Anger Doth not know what is seemly and seeth not the Law; That man whom Hate doth accompany, Becometh like unto murky darkness.

I have to admit, if Oprah were a man, I would marry her.

No man knoweth how another man maketh his love, for women tell not.

Verily, men do foolish things thoughtlessly, knowing not why; but no woman doeth aught without a reason.

With emptie hands men may no haukes lure.

For of fortunes sharp adversitee The worst kynde of infortune is this, A man to han ben in prosperitee, And it remembren, whan it passed is.

Never trust a man who lays his hand on his heart when he assures you of anything.

Every Man is the Architect of his own Fortunes, but the Neighbours superintend the Construction.

The man who can accept defeat and take his salary without feeling guilty is a thief.

To be a good patriot, a man must consider his countrymen as God's creatures, and himself as accountable for his acting towards them.

Women are called womanly only when they regard themselves as existing solely for the use of men.

Every man deserves to be judged in the context of his times.

When men die of disease they are said to die from natural causes. When they recover (and mostly they do) the doctor gets the credit of curing them.