Men Quotes

The soul of man... is a portion or a copy of the soul of the Universe and is joined together on principles and in proportions corresponding to those which govern the Universe.

It is not reasonable that he who does not shoot should hit the mark, nor that he who does not stand fast at his post should win the day, or that the helpless man should succeed or the coward prosper.

There is never the body of a man, how strong and stout soever, if it be troubled and inflamed, but will take more harm and offense by wine being poured into it.

Epaminondas is reported wittily to have said of a good man that died about the time of the battle of Leuctra, "How came he to have so much leisure as to die, when there was so much stirring?

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

Anaximander says that men were first produced in fishes, and when they were grown up and able to help themselves were thrown up, and so lived upon the land.

When a man's struggle begins within oneself, the man is worth something.

When Eudæmonidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, "This is a wonderful speech," said he; "but he that saith it never heard the sound of trumpets.

There is no perfecter endowment in man than political virtue.

When men are arrived at the goal, they should not turn back.

One made the observation of the people of Asia that they were all slaves to one man, merely because they could not pronounce that syllable No.

Friendship is the most pleasant of all things, and nothing more glads the heart of man.

When one told Plistarchus that a notorious railer spoke well of him, "I'll lay my life," said he, "somebody hath told him I am dead, for he can speak well of no man living.'

The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men.

We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.

Will not God, who has commanded men to act thus, do as much himself and even more? For God commanded Peter to forgive till seventy times seven.

Helmut Lang is an amazing man - always striving, always moving forward.

I thought Fred Astaire was the most chic man. I loved the way he dressed. Never mind his dancing, which was beyond - he was just so elegant and had this freedom of body.

John Waters is one of the sweetest, dearest, most adorable men I've ever worked with.

No law made by man can overturn that of the Creator without dramatically affecting society in its very foundation.

I'm not a man who constantly thinks up jokes.

I don't know if human activity is the only cause, but mostly, in great part, it is man who has slapped nature in the face, we have in a sense taken over nature.

I don’t know if it is all (man’s fault) but the majority is, for the most part, it is man who continuously slaps down nature.

We have, in a sense, lorded it over nature, over Sister Earth, over Mother Earth, i think man has gone too far.

To protect creation, to protect every man and every woman, to look upon them with tenderness and love is to open up a horizon of hope.

The alliance of love between a man and a woman, an alliance for life, cannot be improvised, and is not made in a day.

A man who does not know how to have a relationship of friendship with a woman - I'm not talking about misogynists, who are sick - well, he's a man who is missing something.

I say only that this man [Donald Trump] is not Christian if he has said things like that [about wall]. We must see if he said things in that way and in this I give the benefit of the doubt.

The Pope is a man. The Pope needs the input of women, too. And the Pope, too, has a heart that can have a healthy, holy friendship with a woman.

I allow myself to honor the man who fought in moments when he had no strength to impose himself, until he managed to impose himself. [Joseph] Ratzinger. Cardinal Ratzinger deserves applause.

Respect for life and for the dignity of the human person also extends to the rest of creation, which is called to join man in praising God.

Work bears a particular mark of man and of humanity, the mark of a person operating within a community of persons

It can therefore be said that, from the viewpoint of the doctrine of the faith, there are no difficulties in explaining the origin of man in regard to the body, by means of the theory of evolution.

Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.

Humanity, its dignity and its balance, will depend at every moment and on every place on the globe,on who man is for woman and who woman is for man.

The greatness of work is inside man.

Bodily pain affects man as a whole down to the deepest layers of his moral being.

All men are brothered in Jesus Christ.

I love men - everything about them: the way they look, the way they smell, the way they feel. I love their minds.

Women in the postfeminist era, while supposedly strong and commanding and equal to men in every sense, looked weaker and smaller than ever before.

The only thing which separates man from child is all the values he has lost over the years.

A man who would mutilate himself is well damned, isn't he?

It's kind of glorious to say, "Oh man, this guy had his career cut short." I'm not calling myself Sandy Koufax by any means. I'm not in that caliber at all, but sometimes it has to end different.

Anyone who is an enemy of mine, let him love women, but let he who is my friend rejoice in men.

Fortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes a fool of him.

A bad man becomes worse when he apes a saint.

A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to him.

Man has been lent, not given, to life.

That man has the fewest wants who is the least anxious for wealth.

The wise man guards against the future as if it were the present.