Men Quotes

[Man] progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.

It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.

The reasonable man will adjust to the demands of his environment. The unreasonable man expects his environment to adjust to his own needs. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

A married man is a man with a past, while a bachelor is a man with a future.

As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men.

A man is like a phonograph with half-a-dozen records. You soon get tired of them all; and yet you have to sit at table whilst he reels them off to every new visitor.

So I want to thank the Pentagon, the Soviet Union and the military-industrial complex from the bottom of my heart. Without them, I could never have become the man I am today.

No man has ever ruled other men for their own good.

... it is seldom a medical man has true religious views--there is too much pride of intellect.

Spite of all modesty, a man must own a pleasure in the hearing of his praise.

Women don't like men who know they're good looking. They'd much prefer a man who doesn't know he's good looking.

To one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.

The fatt man knoweth not, what the leane thinketh.

Man Proposeth, God disposeth.

A man is known to be mortal by two things, Sleep and Lust.

The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man.

The great secret of good management is to be more alert to prevent a man's going wrong than eager to punish him for it.

The world is full of bright men who know all the right things to say and who say them in the wrong place.

Say less than the other fellow and listen more than you talk; for when a man's listening he isn't telling on himself and he's flattering the fellow who is.

It isn't what a man's got in the bank, but what he's got in his head, that makes him a great merchant.

A tactful man can pull the stinger from a bee without getting stung.

A business man's conversation should be regulated by fewer and simpler rules than any other function of the human animal. They are: Have something to say. Say it. Stop talking.

A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.

To say on the authority of the Bible that God does a thing no honourable man would do, is to lie against God; to say that it is therefore right, is to lie against the very spirit of God.

The part of the philanthropist is indeed a dangerous one; and the man who would do his neighbour good must first study how not to do him evil, and must begin by pulling the beam out of his own eye.

A man may sink by such slow degrees that, long after he is a devil, he may go on being a good churchman or a good dissenter and thinking himself a good Christian.

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

I repent me of the ignorance wherein I ever said that God made man out of nothing: there is no nothing out of which to make anything; God is all in all, and he made us out of himself.

What a man is lies as certainly upon his countenance as in his heart, though none of his acquaintances may be able to read it. The very intercourse with him may have rendered it more difficult.

It's marvelous the change that comes about when a man gets together all his forces and centers them upon the doing of one thing at a time.

The man who has no mind of his own lends it to the priests.

A man of learning who makes no use of what he knows, is like a cloud which gives no rain.

Men are men, vows are words, and words are wind.

You're mine," she whispered. "Mine, as I'm yours. And if we die, we die. All men must die, Jon Snow. But first, we'll live.

When treating with liars, even an honest man must lie.

Kill the boy, Jon Snow. Winter is almost upon us. Kill the boy and let the man be born.

You are an honest and honorable man...Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them in my life.

And any man who must say 'I am king' is no true king at all.

Many, who should know better, think that wars can be decided by soulless machines, rather than by the blood and anguish of brave men.

The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best.

There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.

The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil.

The constant demands of the heart and the belly can allow man only an incidental indulgence in the pleasures of the eye and the understanding.

Man is a fighting animal; his thoughts are his banners, and it is a failure of nerve in him if they are only thoughts.

It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility

What men deny is not God, but some preposterous idol of the imagination.

My opinion with respect to immigration is, that except of useful mechanics and some particular description of men and professions, there is no use of encouragement.

Three things prompt men to a regular discharge of their duty in time of action: natural bravery, hope of reward, and fear of punishment.

I dare say the men would fight very well if properly officered, although they are an exceedingly dirty and nasty people.

For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.