Men Quotes

It is expedient to have acquaintance with those who have looked into the world, who know men, understand business, and can give you good intelligence and good advice when they are wanted.

Let truth be a banner big enough to hide the man who holds it up.

Ten builders rear an arch, each in turn lifting it higher; but it is the tenth man, who drops in the keystone, who hears our huzzas.

We despair of changing the habits of men, still we would alter institutions, the habits of millions of men.

A man's own addition to what he learns is cement to bind an otherwise loose heap of stones into a structure of unity, strength, and use.

The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his early illusions are supplanted by new, and to him, equally convincing illusions.

A man may be said to love most truly that woman in whose company he can feel drowsy in comfort.

Men go to the theatre to forget; women, to remember.

An abstainer is the sort of man you wouldn't want to drink with even if he did.

What I think is this: Man is responsible for a PART of global warming. MOST of it is still natural.

For the atom's soul is nothing but energy. Spirit blazes in the dullest of clay. The life of every woman or man - the heart of it - is pure and holy joy.

The seed dies into a new life, and so does man.

As Christ is the blossom of humanity, so the blossom of every man is Christ perfected in him.

God chooses that men should be tried, but let a man beware of tempting his neighbor.

A man must learn to love his children, not because they are his, but because they are children, else his love will be scarcely a better thing at last than the party-spirit of the faithful politician.

He (God) can be revealed only to the child; perfectly, to the pure child only. All the discipline of the world is to make men children, that God may be revealed to them.

A man is in bondage to whatever he cannot part with that is less than himself.

What can money do to console a man with a headache?

In Giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.

I learned that he that will be a hero will barely be a man; that he that will be nothing but a doer of his work is sure of his manhood.

For the greatest fool and rascal in creation there is yet a worse condition; and that is, not to know it, but to think himself a respectable man.

There is but one thing that can free a man from superstition, and that is belief. All history proves it. The most sceptical have ever been the most credulous.

God is the God of the animals in a far lovelier way, I suspect, than many of us dare to think, but he will not be the God of a man by making a good beast of him.

They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best only material; a man must build his house for himself.

Common people, whether lords or shop-keepers, are slow to understand that possession, whether in the shape of birth or lands or money or intellect, is a small affair in the difference between men.

For this, deep waters whelm the fruitful lea, Wars ravage, famine wastes, plague withers, nor Shall cease till men have chosen the better part.

It is to the man who is trying to live, to the man who is obedient to the word of the Master, that the word of the Master unfolds itself.

Until a man has love, it is well he should have fear. So long as there are wild beasts about, it is better to be afraid than secure.

No one ever gets too big to make mistakes. The secret is that the big man is greater than his mistakes, because he rises right out of them and passes beyond them.

Ever since I was a young man, I wanted to run for the presidency in the worst possible way - and I did.

It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well.

A woman who is not quite a fool will forgive your being but a man, if you are surely that. . .

I've studied men from my topsy-turvy Close, and I reckon, rather true. Some are fine fellows: some, right scurvy; Most, a dash between the two.

Men often struggle with their attraction to other women. They don't quite understand why they have to be with the same woman forever.

It was peculiar to be standing so close to him. He's just a man, but still, what a thing to be Neil Armstrong!

It's so easy to find someone who would walk around me like a shadow and do everything for me and never be tempted by other men, so obviously I'm not attracted by that type.

[My father] was not a musical man.

You are imagining that there is something called human nature which will be outraged by what we do and will turn against us. But we create human nature. Men are infinitely malleable.

The more men you've had, the more I love you.

No man should be allowed to be the President who does not understand hogs, or hasn't been around a manure pile.

It was not the man's brain that was speaking; it was his larynx.

Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible.

A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.

[T]he outcry against killing women, if you accept killing at all, is sheer sentimentality.:; Why is it worse to kill a woman than a man?

I have been despised by better men than you.

Only a fool humbles himself when the world is so full of men eager to do that job for him. (Theon Greyjoy)

The gods don’t care about men, no more than kings care about peasants.

A lord may love the men that he commands, but he cannot be a friend to them. One day he may need to sit in judgement on them, or send them forth to die.

Explain to me why it is more noble to kill ten thousand men in battle than a dozen at dinner.

A man who fights for coin is loyal only to his purse.