Men Quotes

Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, And souls are ripened in our northern sky.

If I have another child, I doubt I'll get married again. I don't think men particularly want to be with me.

Testosterone does not have to be toxic.

The issue is privacy. Why is the decision by a woman to sleep with a man she has just met in a bar a private one, and the decision to sleep with the same man for $100 subject to criminal penalties?

I conveniently forgot to remember that people only have two hands, or, as another parent once said of having a third child, it's time for a zone defense instead of man-to-man.

The misdeeds of ordinary men can be buried with them, and their lives described in half-truths that are really half-lies. But not a public man. Particularly not this one.

When men do the dishes, it's called helping. When women do the dishes, it is called life.

Novels are usually built on conflict, sometimes very, very difficult conflict. It's why men write war novels - because there you go, there's the conflict writ large.

You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.

I've never known a man to be beaten fairly, nor one to be elected, unfairly.

When the old men fight, the young people die.

Think about it. He drinks poison. What kind of man drinks poison? She is the one who stabs herself with his dagger. The manly way.

Don't underestimate the power of events that happened a long time ago. That is the tragic flaw of modern man.

.... "death turns all men into great lovers. Would that they were equally ardent while the lady was still alive!

I absolutely believe the past had its share of warrior women who fought like men. Whether some of these were the actual Amazons from Greek myth is another matter.

I don't believe the war is simply the work of politicians and capitalists. Oh no, the common man is every bit as guilty; otherwise, people and nations would have rebelled long ago!.

Another fact that doesn't exactly brighten up our days is that Mr. Van Maaren, the man who works in the warehouse, is getting suspicious about the Annex.

I think of religion as man's attempt to reach God, and you can't do that.

I understood that the man I was calling for could never ever come back. Because I understood that the man that I was calling for was dead.

When a man dies, his secrets bond like crystals, like frost on a window. His last breath obscures the glass.

Your quest is for darkness only. This sea is not your sea. The myths of men are not your myths. Men's treasures are not yours.

I lived like a man who wanted to die but who had no courage to do it himself.

It is not man who is the enemy of the human species. It is the irrational; it is the spiritual when it is divorced from the material; from the lesson in one beating heart or one bleeding vein.

I am certain a great many believers and bible readers do believe in social justice.

Let the light be called Day so that men may grow corn or take busses.

The man inside of woman ties a knot so that they will never again be separate.

... man is eating the earth up like a candy bar.

Of course the New Testament is very small. Its mouth opens four times as out-of-date as a prehistoric monster, yet somehow man-made.

Let there be a heaven so that man may outlive his grasses.

Inside many of us is a small old man who wants to get out.

Farmers are patient men. They got to be. Got to see those seeds come up week by week, fraction by fraction, and sweat it out for some days not knowing yet is it weeds or vegetables.

Unless all ages and races of men have been deluded by the same mass hypnotist (who?), there seems to be such a thing as beauty, a grace wholly gratuitous.

We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet.

The word feminism needs to be taken back. It needs to be reclaimed in a way that is inclusive of men.

I think life on the road really suits very egotistical men. It's set up for kings.

Men need to understand, and women too, what feminism is really about.

If a piece of knotted string can unleash the wind, and if a drowned man can awaken, then I believe a broken man can heal.

It is just as important to bring people the evidence of the beauty of the world of nature and of man as it is to give them a document of ugliness, squalor, and despair.

I like being able to be a man.

Temper, if ungoverned, governs the whole man.

It is not wit merely, but temper, which must form the well-bred man. In the same manner it is not a head merely, but a heart and resolution, which must complete the real philosopher.

I am...wholeheartedly a Galbraith man.

It's not whether animals will survive, it's whether man has the will to save them.

Reason can never be the absolute dictator of man's mental or moral economy.

The tattoo has a profound meaning: the superficiality of modern man's existence.

Civilization is the sum total of all those activities that allow men to transcend mere biological existence and reach for a richer mental, aesthetic, material, and spiritual life.

Not only am I a musician, but I'm a businessman and a family man.

He had followed the trail left by a dead man. It was only now that he realized it might lead only to a grave.

For all men are equal at the moment of death and who are we to judge them when a much greater judge awaits?

I don't think my father was a bad man, all in all.