Men Quotes

It is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.

A clever man should handle his interests so that each will fall in suitable order of their value.

The desire to be thought clever often prevents a man from becoming so.

Men's happiness and misery depends altogether as much upon their own humor as it does upon fortune.

One man may be more cunning than another, but no one can be more cunning than all the world.

A man seldom finds people unthankful, as long as he remains in a condition of benefiting them further.

Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.

The greater part of mankind judge of men only by their fashionableness or their fortune.

Men would not live in society long if they were not each others dupes.

However evil men may be they dare not be openly hostile to virtue, and so when they want to attack it they pretend to find it spurious , or impute crimes to it.

That man, we may be sure, is a person of true worth, whom those who envy him most are yet forced to praise.

Very few people are acquainted with death. They undergo it, commonly, not so much out of resolution as custom and insensitivity; and most men die because they cannot help it.

Men never desire anything very eagerly which they desire only by the dictates of reason.

The heart of man ever finds a constant succession of passions, so that the destroying and pulling down of one proves generally tobe nothing else but the production and the setting up of another.

The cunningest dissimulation is when a man pretends to be caught in the traps others set for him; and a man is never so easily over-reached as when he is contriving to over-reach others.

The most ingenious men continually pretend to condemn tricking--but this is often done that they may use it more conveniently themselves, when some great occasion or interest offers itself to them.

We are much mistaken if we think that men are always brave from a principle of valor, or women chaste from a principle of modesty.

The courage of a great many men, and the virtue of a great many women, are the effect of vanity, shame, and especially a suitabletemperament.

Self-love is the love of a man's own self, and of everything else for his own sake. It makes people idolaters to themselves, and tyrants to all the world besides.

Some men are like ballads, that are in everyone's mouth a little while.

The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.

There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.

Men and things have each their proper perspective; to judge rightly of some it is necessary to see them near, of others we can never judge rightly but at a distance.

A man for whom accident discovers sense, is not a rational being. A man only is so who understands, who distinguishes, who tests it.

A man would rather say evil of himself than say nothing.

There were some who said that a man at the point of death was more free than all others, because death breaks every bond, and over the dead the united world has no power.

No noble man ever hated good wine.

Never did a great man hate good wine.

A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.

Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.

A man walked into a shop and asked, "How much are your eggs?" He said "£1.40 a dozen". He then asked: "How much are your cracked ones?" He said: "35p". He said: "Crack us four dozen."

The Irish Six Million Dollar man only cost three quid.

There cannot be a "good" society until there are "good" men.

We have but to remember man's natural tendency to satisfy his desires with the minimum of effort to realize how political power will be utilized.

Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with.

A liberal is a man who will give away everything he doesn't own.

A conservative is a fellow who thinks a rich man should have a square deal.

Only gods can safely risk perfection ... it's a dangerous thing for a man.

Most men go through life unchallenged, except at the final moment.

The whole universe sat there, open to the man who could make the right decisions.

Men always fear things which move by themselves.

It is simply unthinkable that we will ever again send overseas a great expeditionary force of armed men.

It's my job to try to communicate with as little showiness as possible. I was a really showy actor as a young man.

I'd always felt a man should marry later in life.

Oh! to be loved by a man I respect, To bask in the glow of his perfectly understandable neglect.

There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least.

As wounded men may limp through life, so our war minds may not regain the balance of their thoughts for decades.

My father's religious life was not Biblically centered. He was a saintly man, whom I could never emulate, so I went into scholarship rather than into the kind of pastoral activity that he pursued.

Figure a man's only good for one oath at a time. I took mine to the Confederate States of America.

At the heart of the matter of masculine excess is a great longing for the love and approval of a father, a man who can tell another man that his masculinity is splendid enough and he can now relax.