Men Quotes

A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always beleived, but when he commends himself, he arouses mistrust.

Few men have been admired of their familiars.

I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.

Men ... are not agreed about any one thing, not even that heaven is over our heads.

We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does not know himself, how should he know his functions and powers?

Others form man; I tell of him, and portray a particular one, very ill-formed, whom I should really make very different from whathe is if I had to fashion him over again. But now it is done.

God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification

After they had accustomed themselves at Rome to the spectacles of the slaughter of animals, they proceeded to those of the slaughter of men, to the gladiators.

For there is no air that men so greedily draw in, that diffuses itself so soon, and that penetrates so deep as that of license.

No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.

Health is a precious thing, and the only one, in truth, meriting that a man should lay out not only his time, sweat, labor and goods, but also life itself to obtain it.

There is nothing which so poisons princes as flattery, nor anything whereby wicked men more easily obtain credit and favor with them.

Some men seem remarkable to the world in whom neither their wives nor their valets saw anything extraordinary. Few men have been admired by their servants.

Most men are rich in borrowed sufficiency: a man may very well say a good thing, give a good answer, cite a good sentence, without at all seeing the force of either the one or the other.

I have gathered a posy of other men’s flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.

Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.

Being a CEO used to be something you did for 15 years. Now you do it for five, maybe. The lifespan is getting shorter and shorter, regardless if you are a man or a woman.

The most happy women within their homes are those who have married sensible men. The latter suffer themselves to be governed with so much the more pleasure, as they are always masters of themselves.

For me, surviving Compton is surviving the men, because Suge and Dre are from Compton. So in my world, in my mind, I survived their mentality.

What I notice about men, all men, is that their order is me, my family, God is in there somewhere, but me is first.

Do you really think a man must be strong, masculine, dominating, and the woman frail, obedient and sensitive? This is a conventional idea. Reality is quite different.

I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society .... these are only feelings I have, and I am the least speculative man on earth.

Michael Steele! You be da man! You be da man!

They can get married. They can marry a man if they're a woman. Or they can marry a woman if they're a man.

[James Mattis] also has real passion for the care of the men and women in the U.S. military and their families. So, you know, I think he would be an outstanding candidate.

No honest work of man or woman "fails"; it feeds the sum of all human action.

The mass criminalization of white men would disturb us to the core.

Nationwide, 1 in 3 black men can expect to serve time behind bars, but the rates are far higher in segregated and impoverished black communities.

[People] assume that there must be something to [Donald Trump] grandiose self-presentation, because who could be a con man on that big of a scale?

Latham is behaving like a crazy man.

Her beauty might fascinate men, but it was difficult to charm them when she stood mute. . . .

Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. —SUZANNE NECKER, WIFE OF JACQUES NECKER, MINISTER OF FINANCE

Now you are no longer a giggling child, smiling at whoever comes along. You are a woman with power. Learn to control your smile, and you can control what men will think about you.

Men like that - when they know they won't be found out - they will do anything.

Women are brought up to think it's acceptable to pay attention to their faces. Men translate their discomfort into their behavior.

Men do not take to vanity, because they are taught at an early age that it is wrong to be vain.

Maybe I haven't done enough movies, but haven't found that men are more difficult than women.

There is not a man born among us who dreams—at first—of service, although in the end, many are bent that way.

I never understood how someone who was dying could say he was the luckiest man in the world, but now I understand.

Well, I beat my man. Now it's up to you to beat yours.

Meadowlark Lemon is one very clever man, unique and truly one of a kind.

Women are much stronger than men. When a woman says enough is enough, which means enough is enough. Man will always lie at her feet in the hope of return. I was lying. And somehow happy.

Sometimes, when a man is alone, that's all you got is your dog.

It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.

A productive marriage requires falling in enjoy numerous occasions, usually with the identical man or woman.

Women are good listeners, but it's a waste of time telling your troubles to a man unless there's something specific you want him to do.

Philosophy teaches a man that he can't take it with him; taxes teach him he can't leave it behind either.

Let every man look before he leaps.

Troubles take wing for the man who can sing.

All I know is that so long I am asleep I am rid of all fears and hopes and toils and glory, and long live the man who invented sleep, the cloak that covers all human thirst.