Men Quotes

The Jews were the money-lenders of the Middle Ages so there's a stereotype of the slightly or more than slightly dishonest business man and this stereotype covers and obscures all the facts.

For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions.

That is one of the flagrant misconceptions about Catholicism in America that if a man is a Catholic he owes allegiance to what they say a foreign sovereign, or something like that.

Man is always worse than most people suspect, but also generally better than most people dream.

Most men who rail against women are railing at one woman only.

... men as a rule are more preoccupied with the dangers that threaten their life than interested in the biological forces on which they depend for a constructive existence.

Whatever his inhibitions and tastes, Western man believes in the natural holiness of seminudism and raw vegetable juice, because these have become for him symbols of unadultered nature.

Biologically, man is still the great amateur of the animal kingdom; he is unique in his lack of anatomical and physiological specialization.

Human life is now molded to a large extent by the changes that man has brought about in his external environment and by his attempts at controlling body and soul.

No man with any sense assumes that a woman's words mean to her exactly what they mean to him.

Labels are for the things men make, not for men. The most primitive man is too complex to be labeled.

A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.

War doesn't mature men; it merely pickles them in the brine of disgust and dread.

Man's brain, enlarged fortuitously, invented words in an ambitious attempt to learn how to think, only to have them usurped by his emotions. But we still try.

I cannot agree that mountain climbing is merely one manifestation of man's spiritual aspirations. I think instead it is a hysterical paroxysm of his infantile vanity.

I understand the technique of eccentricity; it would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if he were ready at the slightest provocation to revert to normal action.

This is very much part of my style, I work a lot on the back ­ - I love the back of clothes for men. I love even T-shirts printed behind. I think, "Why do you want to show only the front?"

We saw The Man From La Mancha, and I remember there was a scene where the woman's skirt fell off, and I got embarrassed and excited at the same time.

Who knows why men do anything?

No man who has managed to keep out of an office can be called a failure in life.

Reflecting an amalgam of economics, monetary, and psychological factors, the stock market represents possibly the most subtly intricate game invented by man.

One man's fantasy is another man's job.

I can see myself as a very old man in a terrific wheelchair. Only, I won't be photographing the tree outside my window, the way Steichen did. I'll be photographing other old people.

Caprice is half man. There is something manly about her.

I know enough to know that no man is an island.

[If] man creates the problem, surely man can solve it.

The silver ore of pure charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good qualities.

Wine does but draw forth a man's natural qualities.

A man may think an untruth as well as speak one.

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Only the stupefying ignorance of young women prevents them from comprehending the stupefying emptiness of the men who cluster round them.

We remember Ronald Reagan as a man who maximized his gifts from an unknown to an actor to a Governor to the leader of the Free World.

Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.

A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their caparisons of title, wealth, and place, he considers but as harness.

Speak but little and well, if you would be esteemed as a man of merit.

Cobden was the greatest statesman and prophet of the century. His speeches are an inspiration. A man whose disciple I am willing to confess I am.

I'm a man of the marketplace as well as an artist. I'm a pawnbroker of myth.

If your plane is being hijacked by an armed man who, though prepared to take risks, presumably wants to go on living, there is room for bargaining.

Professor Challenger, Conan Doyle's science hero, was a sort of irascible man constantly bellowing at people, so he was a little bit of a departure from both of those stereotypes.

It should be remembered that men of courage, integrity, and principle can stand up to Big Brother and resist the headlong march into economic tyranny.

I was a stunt man for 35 years.

One cannot distinguish between human and non-human acts. One cannot point, one cannot say this man here is a man and that man there is a devil.

But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

The real problem is what can man and machine do together and not in competition.

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Sports are an acceptable way for men to show emotion. A guy who won't hug his kid will slip a guy a tongue in a sports bar when his team wins.

A boy is the only known substance from which a man can be made.

No man is so wise that he cannot benefit by talking things out with others.

Happiness mainly depends on man's ability to work and the way in which he does it.

Any man who can't control his thoughts can't control his actions, and any man who can't control his actions isn't safe in society.