Men Quotes

No man likes to be smoked out of his hole in February.

Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier circles.

Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.

In the end, for all our differences and conflicts, most women and men share the same food, work, shelter, bed, life, joy, anguish, and fate. We need each other.

Little boys love machines; girls adore horses; grown-up men and women like to walk.

Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?)

Death is every man's final critic. To die well you must live bravely.

Man was created to complete the horse.

In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.

I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake.

But the surface of the Earth was meant for man. He wasn't meant to live in a hole in the ground.

Men of strong affections are jealous of their own genius. They fear lest they should be loved for a quality, and not for themselves.

The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which he means to be clever.

Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors.

Science is an ocean. It is as open to the cockboat as the frigate. One man carries across it a freightage of ingots, another may fish there for herrings.

The man who wants his wedding garments to suit him must allow plenty of time for the measure.

Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever? - and the instinct that urges the question is God's answer to man, for no instinct is given in vain.

Dandies, when first-rate, are generally very agreeable men.

A man's own conscience is his sole tribunal, and he should care no more for that phantom "opinion" than he should fear meeting a ghost if he crossed the churchyard at dark.

A man's ancestry is a positive property to him.

Honest men are the gentlemen of nature.

There is no man so great as not to have some littleness more predominant than all his greatness. Our virtues are the dupes, and often only the plaything of our follies.

Man hazards the condition and loses the virtues of a freeman, in proportion as he accustoms his thoughts to view without anguish or shame, his lapse into the bondage of debtor.

What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labor.

Actors are con men and con men are actors.

I met a man once who told me that far from believing in the square root of minus one, he didn't believe in minus one. This is at any rate a consistent attitude.

The law compells no man to impossible things. The argument ab impossibili is forcible in law.

The law doth never enforce a man to doe a vaine thing.

We are uneasy with an affectionate man, for we are positive he wants something of us, particularly our love.

Man is at the nadir of his stregth when the Earth, the seas, the mountains are not in him, for without them his soul is unsourced, and he has no images by which to abide.

Man pines to live but cannot endure the days of his life.

A man who can be entertaining for a full day will be in his grave by night-fall.

Climate change threatens every man, woman and child.

O liberty, Parent of happiness, celestial born When the first man became a living soul; His sacred genius thou.

He loved his country as no other man has loved her, but no man deserved less at her hands.

Man has much more to fear from the passions of his fellow-creatures, than from the convulsions of the elements.

But the works of man are impotent against the assaults of nature . . .

Boethius might have been styled happy, if that precarious epithet could be safely applied before the last term of the life of man.

[We should] suspend our belief of every tale that deviates from the laws of nature and the character of man.

Greek is doubtless the most perfect [language] that has been contrived by the art of man.

The land was then covered with morasses and forests, which spread to a boundless extent, whenever man has ceased to exercise his dominion over the earth.

[But] the man who dares not expose his life in the defence of his children and his property, has lost in society the first and most active energies of nature.

Man is different from animals in that he speculates, a high-risk activity.

The man who has been wounded by a chance arrow must not shoot at sight the first man he happens to meet.

There have been errors in the administration of the most enlightened men.

There was an Old Man of the East, Who gave all his children a feast; But they all ate so much, and their conduct was such, That it killed that Old Man of the East.

There was an Old Man with an owl, Who continued to bother and howl; He sate on a rail, and imbibed bitter ale, Which refreshed that Old Man and his owl.

There was an Old Man of Columbia, Who was thirsty, and called out for some beer; But they brought it quite hot, in a small copper pot, Which disgusted that Man of Columbia.

John Redwood is a young man but, let's face it, so was Margaret Thatcher in 1975.

It is true that Bible prayers in word and print are short, but the praying men of the Bible were with God through many a sweet and holy wrestling hour. They won by few words but long waiting.