Men Quotes

All men alike stand condemned, not by alien codes of ethics, but by their own, and all men therefore are conscious of guilt.

Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger.

No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.'

To fight in another man's armour is something more than to be influenced by his style of fighting.

Though I do not believe that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good indication that such a thing exists and that some men will.

Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the lover desires the Beloved herself, not the pleasure she can give.

I enjoyed my breakfast this morning, and I think that was a good thing and do not think it was condemned by God. But I do not think myself a good man for enjoying it.

A man who first tried to guess 'what the public wants,' and then preached that as Christianity because the public wants it, would be a pretty mixture of fool and knave

Agnostics talk cheerfully of man's search for God but they might as well talk about the mouse's search for the cat.

To get even near humility, even for a moment, is like a drink of cold water to a man in a desert.

And the Prince stared at her like a man out of his wits.

And I was the Lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you.

We must meet children as equals in that area of our nature where we are their equals...The child as reader is neither to be patronized nor idolized: we talk to him as man to man.

I wonder do the gods know what it feels like to be a man.

Few men looked on her without becoming, in a certain fashion, her lovers. But it was the kind of love that made them not less true, but truer, to their own wives.

You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.

In order that we finite beings may apprehend the Emporer He translates His glory into multiple forms - into stars, woods, waters, beasts, and the bodies of men.

The Christian view is that men were created to be in a certain relationship to God (if we are in that relation to Him, the right relation to one another will follow inevitably).

If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity.

I would not know how to advise a man how to write. It is a matter of talent and interest. I believe he must be strongly moved if he is to become a writer.

I mean, I'm willing to do anything with Chris Chulack - he's one of my favorite directors I've ever worked with, and I just think he's a fantastic man, and a great creator, and a good friend.

For the truth is that men do not desire to be the Common Man any more than they are the Common Man. They need greatness in others and the occasion to discover the greatness in themselves.

It should be the historian's business not to belittle but to illuminate the greatness of man's spirit.

According to your belief [Christian clergy], my kind of man — secular, prideful, agnostic and all the rest of it — is among the damned. I'm on my own. You've got your God.

A man does not truly understand his limitations until he has tested them.

In a world where data is coin of the realm, and transmissions are guarded by no better sentinels than man-made codes and corruptible devices, there is no such thing as a secret.

Nature is inexorable. If men do not follow the truth they cannot live.

It is a great advantage to a President, and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know he is not a great man.

Usually, when it's a story about three women all being involved with the same man, it ends in some eyeballs being scratched out and some weaves being snatched off.

We have allowed the sexual debate to be defined by women, and that's not right. Men must speak, and speak in their own voices, not voices coerced by feminist moralists.

Ikebana is meant to mimic life in the way it develops; it shouldn't look like it's under the control of man.

All men even, I have written, Jesus Christ began as flecks of tissue inside a woman's womb. Every boy must stagger out of the shadow of a mother goddess, whom he never fully escapes.

Every man harbors an inner female territory ruled by his mother, from whom he can never entirely break free.

The real butches are straight ... dealing with and controlling men makes you stronger.

Men who shrink from penetration of the female body are paralyzed by justifiable apprehension, since they are returning to our uncanny site of origin.

Man might have identified fire, but women identified the way to enjoy with it.

I want to play the fake child on 'To Catch A Predator.' No, wait! I want to play the Leaf Man!

Sins are timeless. Sins are an everyday reality for every one. Sin has been in existence since the beginning of man, since Adam and Eve. It will always be pertinent.

I believe that woman are superior to men.

I didn't like men because they were so physically competitive. Men are always making a pecking order. "I can beat you up and you can beat him up ..."

You can always find somebody to beat up. This goes back to the schoolyard. Most men would think, Don't chum with girls. But I chummed with girls.

I didn't like men, but I liked women.

Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science.

Jimmy Lee Baylis was a wise man, and knew better than to talk back to the man who signed his paycheck.

I came to Freud for facts. I read 'The Interpretation of Dreams' and I thought- 'Oh, here is a man who is not just theorizing away, here is a man who has got facts.

Hitler is a shy and friendly man with artistic tastes and gifts.

Hitler is a medicine man type of leader.

Man is the matter of the cosmos, contemplating itself.

Timidity is the root of prudence in the majority of men.

Of all the passions that inspire a man in a battle, none, we have to admit, is so powerful and so constant as the longing for honor and reknown.