Men Quotes

The eyes of a man are of no use without the observing power. Telescopes and microscopes are cunning contrivances, but they cannot see of themselves.

There is a natural disposition with us to judge an author's personal character by the character of his works. We find it difficult to understand the common antithesis of a good writer and a bad man.

One man's priority is another man's extravagence.

I'm an old man now. I can't believe it. I'm listening to all sorts because I'm producing people.

Don't call the man a claustrophobe just because small spaces scare him. Right.

Women were complicated creatures. Any man who thought he had one figured out simply wasn't paying attention.

I don't categorize myself. I don't think I'm perceived as a female act by my audience. My fans include just as many men as women.

What we call God's justice is only man's idea of what he would do if he were God.

Man creates both his god and his devil in his own image. His god is himself at his best, and his devil himself at his worst.

Unleash your TRAVEL BEAST .... explore the world. It's time to begin your next adventure! No man needs a vacation so much as the person who has just had one.

The man who is so run down that he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in two weeks. What he really needs is to re-transform his life.

The heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic.

A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''

If you work for a man, in Heavens name work for him! If he pays you wages that supply your bread and butter, work for him, stand by him, and stand by the institution he represents.

An imitator is a man who succeeds in being an imitation.

The new definition of a heathen is a man who has never played baseball.

It does not make much difference what a person studies-all knowledge is related, and the man who studies anything, if he keeps at it, will be learned.

If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?

Man is Creation's masterpiece. But who says so?

Man, like Deity, creates in his own image.

Marriage is not for me. I tell you that I am Blank Verse. I am talent, and I do not rhyme with Love. I am talent and I do not rhyme with man.

Men without jobs do not form families.

No, I have never wanted to be a man. I have often wanted to be more effective as a woman, but I have never felt that trousers would do the trick!

Men have to be reminded that women exist.

If it's a man's game so decidedly that a woman would be soiled by entering it, then there is something radically wrong with the American game of politics.

I know that given great responsibility men sometimes change, but Mr. Nixon's Presidency would worry me.

I mean, how many men would have gone on to the floor of the House as Carolyn Maloney did and wear a burkha to show the fight of Afghan women.

It is important what a man still plans at the end. It shows the measure of injustice in his death.

People talk about revelation, and say it has ceased; but what ignorance it bespeaks, when man knows not the least thing on earth without revelation.

Language the most forcible proceeds from the man who is most sincere. The way to speak with power, or to write words that pierce mankind to the quick, is to speak and write honestly.

I'm not a military man. I wish I were, then maybe I could give some advice.

A man can laugh while he suffers.

Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.

Each man was his own executioner and his own victim.

I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes were open and I was alone - terribly alone in a world without God and without (hu)man(ity).

Do you know what laughter is? I'll tell you. It's God's mistake. When God made man in order to bend him to his wishes he carelessly gave him the gift of laughter.

Drawn to childhood, the old man will seek it in a thousand different ways.

The law of the survival of the fittest led inevitably to the survival and predominance of the men who were effective in war and who loved it because they were effective.

I have always seen cold and controlled men as the right ones for me.

I pick good women, but I haven't had any luck with my men.

When men are scared of a woman, they always accuse her of being mannish.

There are people who may be trusted, men as well as women. There are are as many difference in their natures as there are flowers in these meadows.

A man's looks are measured by the depth of his pockets.

Mountain gorses, do ye teach us . . . . That the wisest word man reaches Is the humblest he can speak?

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Books are men of higher stature.

You believe In God, for your part?--that He who makes Can make good things from ill things, best from worst, As men plant tulips upon dunghills when They wish them finest.

How joyously the young sea-mew Lay dreaming on the waters blue, Whereon our little bark had thrown A little shade, the only one; But shadows ever man pursue.

But so fair, She takes the breath of men away Who gaze upon her unaware.

And Marlowe, Webster, Fletcher, Ben, Whose fire-hearts sowed our furrows when The world was worthy of such men.