Men Quotes

This much have I learned: A man's life weighs more than glory, and a price paid in blood is a heavy reckoning.

In the race of men is much greed and envy; but of truth, little.

I have never known courage to be judged by the length of a man's hair. Or, for the matter of that, whether he has any hair at all.

I've only played for Watford, so I'm a one-man club.

It is not for human judgment to dive into the heart of man, to know whether his intentions are good or evil.

To enter into the hearts of men belongs to him who can explore the human heart.

We must judge of a man's motives from his overt acts.

But man is above all a social and political animal; his relations with his fellow human beings form his most absorbing and important interest.

Power for men means the ability to make things happen ... The female definition of power is the ability not to have to please.

Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.

Your Reverence, I do not hate any man in this world enough to inflict the results of my prayers upon him.

There was no limit to what one man might do, if he gave all, and held back nothing.

No man can become perfect until he knows his true nature. And the person who knows his or her true nature cannot be an imperfect.

Do I think I'm a holy man? Sometimes.

I am the odd man out in the family.

Sweetheart, all men are animals. Feed us, pet us, and use a firm hand, and we'll worship at your feet.

Because sometimes, a man could do nothing about where he came from, he could only control where he went

A man can be trusted only up to low-water mark.

Many men can no more be kept straight by spiritual motives than we can live without policemen.

It is very easy to speak words of wisdom from a comfortable distance, when one sees no reality, no details, none of the effect on men's minds.

Before men can find peace and harmony within themselves they must first fall in love with their country.

What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.

A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover - but will sooner or later find a tyrant.

I cannot describe to you the despairing sensation of trying to do something for a man who seems incapable or unwilling to do anything further for himself.

'Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give, No hollow aid; alone - man with God must strive.

But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless.

Old man! 'Tis not difficult to die.

My hair is grey, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears.

Yet still there whispers the small voice within, Heard through Gain's silence, and o'er Glory's din; Whatever creed be taught or land be trod, Man's conscience is the oracle of God.

He was a man of his times. with one virtue and a thousand crimes. (The Corsair)

Kill a man's family, and he may brook it, But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket.

Perhaps the early grave Which men weep over may be meant to save.

For a man to become a poet (witness Petrarch and Dante), he must be in love, or miserable.

Whenever a man seeks your advice he generally seeks your praise.

Women's beauty, like men's wit, is generally fatal to the owners.

Silence and reserve suggest latent power. What some men think has more effect than what others say.

A man's fortune is frequently decided by his first address. If pleasing, others at once conclude he has merit; but if ungraceful, they decide against him.

No man can possibly improve in any company for which he has not respect enough to be under some degree of restraint.

I love every-day senses, every-day wit and entertainment; a man who is only good on holidays, is good for very little.

Few men are of one plain, decided color; most are mixed, shaded, and blended; and vary as much, from different situations, as changeable silks do from different lights.

The manner of a vulgar man has freedom without ease, and the manner of a gentleman has ease without freedom.

The company of women of fashion will improve your manners, though not your understanding; and that complaisance and politeness, which are so useful in men's company, can only be acquired in women's.

A man of sense may be in haste, but can never be in a hurry.

It is by vivacity and wit that man shines in company; but trite jokes and loud laughter reduce him to a buffoon.

There are some occasions in which a man must tell half his secret, in order to conceal the rest: but there is seldom one in which a man should tell it all.

The greatest powers cannot injure a man's character whose reputation is unblemished among his party.

So much are our minds influenced by the accidents of our bodies, that every man is more the man of the day than a regular and consequential character.

Study the heart and the mind of man, and begin with your own. Meditation and reflection must lay the foundation of that knowledge, but experience and practice must, and alone can, complete it.

Cardinal Mazarin was a great knave, but no great man; much more cunning than able; scandalously false and dirtily greedy.

An ignorant man is insignificant and contemptible; nobody cares for his company, and he can just be said to live, and that is all.