Men Quotes

It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show only the first traces of it.

A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles, for then he is off his guard.

Obviously I am not bothered about men's fashion - is anyone, apart from Jonathan Ross?

It was Julie Burchill who decreed that, beyond a certain age, a man should not be seen in a leather jacket.

Poe wrote like a drunkard and a man who is not accustomed to pay his debts.

Gentlemen don't propose when they're eating.

Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.

I could weep for a river-valley, and I have. But for a country? Oh man, I don't know.

Could you bring back a man without a head? Not six times. Just once.

It may be a man's world, but men are easily controlled by women.

Be careful with the man jewelry. A little goes a long way.

I would say probably my most alpha quality is my competitive nature. I'm very competitive, and it tends to bring out very much the man in me.

Everyone loved Steve Jobs and the idea of Steve Jobs. Like a lot of people, I loved a man I never knew.

Whether it's being a leading man, making TV shows, being with my family, I've learned a lot.

What is divine? It is simply that which man has not been able to understand. Once you do, it loses its divinity.

As a woman, you accept the situation, adapt to it, and do your best, whereas men would choose violence.

What are you doing?" Nothing. Breaking and entering. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

He thanked her and left the house in the mood of a shipwrecked man who has allowed the rescue ship to pass him by.

Memory is earth's retribution for man's sins.

The only other people who have had experiences similar to those of this man were locked up inside institutions for the criminally insane. The difference is, this guy gets business cards.

Few men can afford to be angry.

There are no habits of man more alien to the doctrine of the Communist than those of the collector

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.

When a man says he sees nothing in a book, he very often means that he does not see himself in it: which, if it is not a comedy or a satire, is likely enough.

Many a man's vices have at first been nothing worse than good qualities run wild.

Many men spend their lives in gazing at their own shadows, and so dwindle away into shadows thereof.

The man who wishes to bend me with his tale of woe must shed true tears - not tears that have been got ready overnight.

Each man has his fancy.

A man's life is like a well, not like a snake--it should be measured by its depth, not by its length.

Many a man wins glory for prudence by seeking advice, then seeking advice as to what advice would be best to take, and finally following appetite.

Man usually thinks liberty is the power of doing what he likes to do. That is license.

You cannot knock a man down who will not stand up, nor argue with a skeptic.

Art is one of man's few serious activities.

Each man's soul is a menagerie where Conscience, the animal-tamer, lives with a collection of wild beasts.

Some men pray only when the world is dark, as owls hoot at night.

[ Hollywood] is a patriarchy, headed by men and built for men.

I think that women definitely have a special bond as friends that is hard to describe to men, and we don't often see that portrayed narratively.

The 880-yard heel and toe walk is the closest a man can come to experiencing the panges of childbirth.

Abundance is a state, not a quantity. Idea of shortage is man-made.

Muslim leaders should ask themselves what exactly their relationship is to a political movement that encourages young men to kill and maim on religious grounds.

The idea that [Jeff Sessions] is the man who is going to end the progress on the drug war makes me want to rip my hair out, every carefully nurtured curl on my head.

Only the man who extols the purity of love devoid of desire, is capable of the depravity of a desire devoid of love.

A man's rights are not violated by a private individual's refusal to deal with him.

I want to be prepared to claim the greatest virtue of all - that I was a man who made money

The fact that a man has no claim on others ... does not preclude or prohibit good will among men and does not make it immoral to offer or to accept voluntary, non-sacrificial assistance.

Men prosper or fail, survive or perish in proportion to the degree of their rationality.

A rational man knows-or makes it a point to discover-the source of his emotions, the basic premises from which they come.

One can't love man without hating most of the creatures who pretend to bear his name.