Men Quotes

Old men feel a slightly reluctant affection for one another.

The man in the street is always a stranger.

Young men preen. Old men scheme.

Natural Man, in our current version, is a disgruntled adolescent.

It's so rare, especially as a younger actor, to find a role where it's not just one-dimensional and it's not just a stock leading man.

I'd love to be a dad. I hope I'd be great at it. That's every man's fear, yet his most important job.

With a modem, anyone can follow the world and report on the world-no middle man, no big brother. I guess this changes everything.

Welcome to Suckersville, man.

I had some tough times. Now that I look back on it, I'm very grateful for those times. I know now that I needed them. But at the time you think, 'Man, I wish I could just get to the major leagues!'

Considering the way evolution works, it should not be surprising if every man has got a Don Giovanni somewhere inside him.

I thought you were going to break out into the running man, Carlton?

Time, so complain'd of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm'd hours.

Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.

All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.

I knew the mass of men conceal'd Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal'd They would by other men be met With blank indifference.

Style ... is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.

To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man.

Was Christ a man like us?-Ah! let us try If we then, too, can be such men as he!

To the Bible men will return; and why? Because they cannot do without it.

Truth illuminates and gives joy; and it is by the bond of joy, not of pleasure, that men's spirits are indissolubly held.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men, And falsehood, while I lived, was far from mine.

Nature's great law, and the law of all men's minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.

A wise man once asked me, "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" I thought for a minute, then I slapped him across the face. That got him off my back.

When rogues fall out, honest men get into their own.

Prayer is the breath of the new man, drawing in the air of mercy in petitions, and returning it in praises; it proves and maintains the spiritual life.

The greatest of men must turn beggars when they have to do with Christ.

Esther came to a proud imperious man; we come to the God of love and grace.

We cannot expect too little from man nor too much from God.

Men may die like lambs and yet have their place forever with the goats.

Were a man to live as long as Methuselah, and to spend all his days in the highest delights sin can offer, one hour of the anguish and tribulation that must follow, would far outweigh them.

I don't want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

Call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.

Cynicism can be funny. But it's the easy way. You'll forget to enjoy anything. I try to make the evolving choice, the forward-moving, life-giving choice. Just keep living, man.

Though a woman tempted man to eat, my dear Longfellow," said Holmes, "you never hear of Eve having to do with his drinking, for he took to that of his own notion.

I'm just glad that the whole John Wayne persona of a man is sort of old school now, because I'd never be able to do that. If that was the going rate today, I wouldn't be working.

They say that women like a man who can make them laugh, and I find that if you can make a woman laugh on the first and second dates, then you're doing well.

A fight forms a powerful and strange bond between men.

That they dared make a town of this wet and sucking thing that vied with my foot for my boot at every step bespoke the glorious and yearning bullshit of men's souls.

Man wants to be reconciled to God; wants to know that the past is forgiven.

If you live for fame, men may turn against you.

I thought, writing is everything, it's so much more important than this or that. If only I could give that young man a stern talking to. Having a child changes things quite a bit.

I'm not in for killing another man, defending my holy land, as if there's a god who would understand.

I like the fact that Hogan's shoes all have this sporty sole that is great even for an older man with a bad back like me.

I don't understand men. I don't even understand what I don't understand about men.

How can you be more subject; black woman in a white man's world?

We're going to die," Keith said, the moment he was gone. "This man is a serial killer. We're going to die, and he's going to bury us in his garden and build a shed on us.

All right. Normal rules apply." "Right." The man walked off, leaving us. "What are the normal rules?" I asked. "He walks away and has a tea break and doesn't ask any questions.

What are you?" I asked. "I'm the Ghost of the Night Before Exams." "And how long did it take you to come up with that?" Jazza asked. "I'm a busy man," he replied.

I had been reading a fabulous book [The Man Verdi, by Frank Walker] about [Giuseppe] Verdi, whom I adore.

Men are not really born either hopelessly idle, or preternaturally industrious. They may move in one direction or the other as will or circumstances dictate, but it is open to any man to work.