Men Quotes

We arrange our lives-even the best and boldest men and women that exist, just as much as the most limited-with reference to what society conventionally rules and makes right.

Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood? Why when they leave me do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank?

Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality.

After years of research, I discovered 25 differences in the work-life choices of men and women. All 25 lead to men earning more money, but to women having better lives.

If there's a distinction between men and women, I don't pay attention to it. Honestly, I don't see it. I think all of us are part feminine and part masculine.

Emotionally men and women are different, but only as a result of the physical differences. It all comes back to our bodies.

Bodies of holy men and women exude Miraculous oil, odour of violet. But under heavy loads of trampled clay Lie bodies of the vampires full of blood; Their shrouds are bloody and their lips are wet.

The worldly relations of men and women often form an equation that cancels out without warning when some insignificant factor has been added to either side.

Lives of great men all remind us greatness takes no easy way.

What is a man? What is a woman? Why are men and women attracted to each other? Why do they desire each other? Love...what is it?

Walking with her man, Lost in a dream

Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.

But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts. And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts

His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.

There, like the wind through woods in riot, Through him the gale of life blew high; The tree of man was never quiet: Then 'twas the Roman, now 'tis I.

Every one disguising the truth from a man who has a right to the truth is wrong, and ought not to be encouraged.

A city with one newspaper... is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.

We learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour.

The wisest man knows he know nothing.

Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.

The whole Constitution has been erected upon the assumption that the King not only is capable of doing wrong but is more likely to do wrong than other men if he is given the chance.

History, writing, infect after a time a man's sense of himself.

Independent women must expect more of themselves, since neither men nor other more conventionally domesticated women will hope for anything, or expect any result other than utter failure.

The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium.

I'm not a leading man.

I didn't follow the whole 'X-Men' story because it got too complicated. I'd pick up a comic book and have no idea what was going on.

I really haven't seen The Report in a long time. I don't have a copy, but I'll have to see it again. I think it would be good to put both these men next to each other.

Don’t become me. Don’t let her down like I did. You only deserve what you make yourself worthy of. Do what I couldn’t. Be a man.

In some respects woman is superior to man. She is more tender-hearted, more receptive, her intuition is more intense.

The human spirit may be likened to the bounty of the sun shining on a mirror. The body of man, ... grows and develops through the animal spirit.

A woman . . . always feels herself complimented by love, though it may be from a man incapable of winning her heart, or perhaps even her esteem.

A man sitting monkey-like on the rooftop of his brain is due the applause such feats earn him.

... men of power are seldom protected from their own infirmities by the men subordinate to them -- not even in the sad circumstances of mental exhaustion.

In Biblical times, a man could have as many wives as he could afford. Just like today.

Man is too near all kinds of beasts,--a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.

There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.

To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's.

A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.

The only security a man can ever have is the ability to do a job uncommonly well.

It is the man who does not want to express an opinion whose opinion I want.

A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.

My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.

Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree and can never be reversed.

And then, there will be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady eye, and well-poised bayonnet, they have helped mankind on to this great consummation.

The man who stands by and says nothing, when the peril of his government is discussed, can not be misunderstood. If not hindered, he is sure to help the enemy.

I hold that while a man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

I think the authors of that notable instrument [the Declaration of Independence] intended to include all men.

I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.

But, slavery is good for some people! ! ! As a good thing, slavery is strikingly peculiar, in this, that it is the only good thing which no man ever seeks the good of, for himself.

We cannot ask a man what he will do, and if we should, and he should answer us, we should despise him for it. Therefore we must take a man whose opinions are known.