Men Quotes

Peace-not passion, not personal possessions, not personal accomplishments nor happiness-is one of the greatest blessings a man can receive.

What's virtue in a man can't be virtue in a cat.

Men's minds must be free, and that means the minds of all, not the minds of a select few.

In a culture that gives men irresponsible power and women powerless responsibility, the advancement of civilization cannot be a serious goal.

The man born and bred a slave, even if freed, never loses wholly the feeling or manner of a slave.

Three men, together riding, Can win new worlds at their will; Resolute, neer dividing, Lead, and be victors still. Three can laugh and doom a king, Three can make the planets sing.

The things that are really important to me are my man, my animals and my books. I don't need anything else.

We were young, we were merry, we were very, very wise, And the door stood open at our feast, When there passed us a woman with the West in her eyes, And a man with his back to the East.

Is this wide world not large enough to fill thee,Nor Nature, nor that deep man's Nature, Art?Are they too thin, too weak and poor to still thee,Thou little heart?

Hollywood is run by men who are big on vulnerability.

Most women at retirement have significantly less money than men, and they still get paid less than men. I'm sure that in my reptile brain I'm quite conscious of this.

We all marry strangers. All men are strangers to all women.

Man learned to resort to the dance when he felt helpless or fragmentary, when he felt dislocated in his universe.

As far as men go, they never gave me a chance to be me; they were always scared that somebody was going to take me.

Then my life crashed and burned down: trials, men, drama, no self-love, no identity. A little identity, but not a lot of love for myself, my life.

A child, then a man, now a feather / Passing through a furious fire / Called time.

But why, she thought wryly, did a man seem more attractive as he became less available? How humbling to think one had so much in common with a cow stretching its neck through a gate for better grass.

I just hugged the man that murdered my son.

Do you think a man is the only creature with whom one may fall in love?

A good man who did a bad thing.

[On George H.W. Bush vs. Michael Dukakis:] Americans now know they can vote for a man who can't express his thoughts or a man who can't express his feelings.

The man who has many answers is often found in the theaters of information where he offers, graciously, his deep findings. While the man who has only questions, to comfort himself, makes music.

Half the world's troubles come from men not being trained to resent a fallacy as much as an insult.

Old men make wars that young men may die.

There is nothing for the modern man or woman to fear about most cases of cancer. Nothing except delay.

Every man carries the seed of his own death, and you will not be more than a man. You will have everything; you cannot have more.

Domestic work, is, after all, both tedious and repetitive, and it is not surprising that most women and all men avoid as much of it as possible.

There's still not as many women in music as men, and I don't really know why. I don't have the answers. I do wish there were more women that played music.

The last man! Yes I may well describe that solitary being's feelings, feeling myself as the last relic of a beloved race, my companions extinct before me.

When man, governed by reasonable laws, enjoys his natural freedom, let him despise woman, if she do not share it with him.

The birthright of man ... is such a degree of liberty, civil and religious, as is compatible with the liberty of every other individual with whom he is united in a social compact.

I could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other.

A lofty sense of independence is, in man, the best privilege of his nature.

One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought

Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!

Listen to me, Frankenstein. You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature. Oh, praise the eternal justice of man!

The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.

Even the eternal skies weep, I thought; is there any shame then, that mortal man should spend himself in tears?

Men are vile inconstant toads.

Perhaps for totemic reasons, people like to possess a piece of the country they are visiting. Women like to wear it. Men like to eat it.

I would call an intellectual one whose instrument of work - his mind - is also his major source of pleasure; a man whose entertainment is his intelligence.

A man at his desk in a room with a closed door is a man at work. A woman at a desk in any room is available.

Until we know what motivates the hearts and minds of men we can understand nothing outside ourselves, nor will we ever reach fulfillment as that greatest miracle of all, the human being.

To lead means to direct and to exact, and no man dares do either - he might be unpopular. What authority we are given now is a trinity: the grin, the generality, and God (the Word).

In the race for money some men may come first, but man comes last.

I do think that there are - again, gross generalization - more women than men that can tolerate that or that are OK with that.

An old man drinks tea and reads the newspaper--forgetting age for a moment.

God improvises. Man systematizes.

Man invented the gods. Then the gods went off on their own, but not far.

Dirty old men, ignoring society, continue to follow nature.