Men Quotes

Alas! Man's vices, horrible as they are supposed to be, contain the positive proof of his taste for the infinite.

By nature, by necessity itself, [primitive man] is encyclopedic, while civilized man finds himself confined in the infinitely small regions of specialization.

Nature is a temple, where the living Columns sometimes breathe confusing speech; Man walks within these groves of symbols, each Of which regards him as a kindred thing.

How slender is the accommodation which nature has provided for man.

I would give anything for a female's hand on me tonight. they soften a man and then leave him listening to the rain.

A man who can beat the horses can do anything he makes up his mind to do.

like the fox I run with the hunted and if I’m not the happiest man on earth I’m surely the luckiest man alive.

Sweet Christ, you must know that a man will go further for any poem than for any woman ever born.

Hey, Hank, I notice all the women around your place lately ... good looking stuff; you're doing all right." "Sam," I say, "that's not true; I am one of God's most lonely men.

the writing of some men is like a vast bridge that carries you over the many things that claw and tear. The Wine of Forever

for a man of 55 who didn't get laid until he was 23 and not very often until he was 50 I think that I should stay listed via Pacific Telephone until I get as much as the average man has had

I've found out why men sign their names to their works- not that they created them but more than the others did not.

…He was always high on drugs. I was not a drug man, but in case I wanted to hide from myself for a few days, I knew I could get anything I wanted from him.

Experience can dull. With most men experience is a series of mistakes; the more experience you have the less you know.

It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.

Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.

The most consistent men are not more unlike to others, than they are at times to themselves.

In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least.

It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.

Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved.

Most men know what they hate, few what they love.

An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.

The temple of truth is built indeed of stones of crystal, but, inasmuch as men have been concerned in rearing it, it has been consolidated by a cement composed of baser materials.

In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.

Many a man may thank his talent for his rank, but no man has ever been able to return the compliment by thanking his rank for his talent.

There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise.

Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife.

Drawn by conceit from reason's plan How vain is that poor creature man; How pleas'd in ev'ry paltry elf To grate about that thing himself.

The man who walks with Henslow.

Englishmen rarely cry, except under the pressure of the acutest grief; whereas in some parts of the Continent the men shed tears much more readily and freely.

The man that created the theory of evolution by natural selection was thrown out by his Dad because he wanted him to be a doctor. GAWD, parents haven't changed much.

If man had not been his own classifier, he would never have thought of founding a separate order for his own reception.

The cemetery is filled with indispensable men.

It well becomes a man who is no longer young to forget that he ever was.

A man must take the fat with the lean.

A man ain't got no right to be a public man, unless he meets the public views.

It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, when they cut the wrong man's head off.

"I saw her, in the fire, but now. I hear her in music, in the wind, in the dead stillness of the night," returned the haunted man.

There are very few moments in a man's existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when he is in pursuit of his own hat.

The wine-shops breed, in physical atmosphere of malaria and a moral pestilence of envy and vengeance, the men of crime and revolution.

By the by, who ever knew a man who never read or wrote neither who hadn't got some small back parlour which he would call a study!

Philosophers are only men in armor after all.

Christmas is a poor excuse every 25th of December to pick a man's pockets.

"Lord bless you!" said Mr. Omer, resuming his pipe, "a man must take the fat with the lean; that's what he must make up his mind to, in this life. "

a most excellent man, though I could have wished his trousers not quite so tight in some places and not quite so loose in others.

Couldn't we even argue that it is because men are unequal that they have that much more need to be brothers?

There is life in the ground; it goes into the seeds and also when it is stirred up goes into the man who stirs it.

Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.

Let us celebrate the soil. Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life by their ability to buy it.

The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.