Men Quotes

Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation.

No God can put a man in hell in another world, who has made a little heaven in this. God cannot make a man miserable if that man has made somebody else happy.

Man, I love the Lord of the Rings movies. Some people would say I'm weird for liking those types of movies, but they are so cool.

Classical theology has erred in its insistence that theology be 'God-centered,' not 'man-centered'.

Cicero most reminds me of Harold Wilson. Both men knew how to keep the show on the road.

It is perseverance, and not genius that takes a man to the top. Rome is full of unrecognized geniuses. Only perseverance enables you to move forward in the world.

You can always spot a fool, for he is a man who will tell you he knows who is going to win an election.

Does a name stick because it suits a man or does the man, unconsciously, evolve into his name?

That young man seeks opportunities to test his principles as readily as a drunk picks fights in a bar.

Poetry is a man arguing with himself; rhetoric is a man arguing with others.

Economists can be called the worldly philosophers for they sought to embrace in a scheme of philosophy the most worldly of man's activities-his drive for wealth.

Unlike modern man, who dreams of the world he will make, pre-modern man dreamed of the world he left.

It seems to me that before a man tries to express anything to the world he must recognize in himself an individual, a new one, very distinct from others.

Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life.

The true artist regards his work as a means of talking with men [and women], of saying his say to himself and to others. It is not a question of pay.

If little labour, little are our gains: Man's fortunes are according to his pains.

Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well.

Seldom comes Glory till a man be dead.

God doth not promise here to man that HeWill free him quickly from his misery;But in His own time, and when He thinks fit,Then He will give a happy end to it.

Before man's fall the rose was born,St. Ambrose says, without the thorn;But for man's fault then was the thornWithout the fragrant rose-bud born; But ne'er the rose without the thorn.

Necessity makes dastards valiant men.

Our rights come from God - not man, not a monarch, not a government.

God does not treat us as our sins deserve, man treats us as our sins deserve.

A man's dreams are a maze even he cannot know.

It is every man's right to choose when to Sheathe the Sword." --- Ingtar Shinowa ---

A man who will not die to save a woman is no man.

The more women there are about, the softer a wise man steps.

A man is a man, on a throne or in a pigsty.

That man,' Elayne said, 'is never where he needs to be.' 'And yet,' Perrin said, 'he always arrives there eventually.

I grew up around strong women; weak men were pickled and salted. The women wouldn't waste time raising a weak boy.

Taking responsibility takes all the joy out of life, and drains a man to dust.

Men! Too blind to see what a stone could see, and too stubborn to be trusted to think for themselves.

I've seen men die because they were sure that what should not happen,would not. -Robert Jordan(The eye of the world,Wheel of time)

An open sack hides nothing, And an open door hides little, but an open man is surely hiding something. lini is quoted by Nynaeve.

Young men and fools sometimes bear pain they do not have to as a badge of their pride. Or their foolishness.

Stopping a man from what he wants to do is like taking a sweet from a child. Sometimes you have to do it, but sometimes it just isn't worth the trouble.

Keep your mind out of the pigsty, man!

The wheel of a man's life. No mercy. No pity.

Well, I can admire stubbornness in a man. There is little to a man who's too easily biddable.

You could weave silk from pig bristles before you could make a man anything but a man.

There's no time for winking at the men when you're busy bailing the boat.

The arrogance of men never ceases to amaze me. You all think everything has to do with you, and every woman has to desire you.

A man can get killed in there.

I had long wondered," Lan said to Tam. "About the man who had given Rand that heron-marked blade. I wondered if he had truly earned it. Now I know." Lan raised his own sword in salute.

As he did so, a wind rose up around him, around the man who had been called lord, Dragon Reborn, king, killer, lover and friend.

A man should never give promises in bed.

In the Borderlands, sheepherder, if a man has the raising of a child, that child is his, and none can say different.

Rand al'Thor is a mule-headed, stone-willed fool of a...a...a man!

I believe that as long as a single man may try, any unjustifiable barrier against his efforts is a barrier against mankind.

Killing one man is murder. Killing millions is a statistic