Men Quotes

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. It is only found in men of sound sense and understanding.

In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as little removed from a knave.

A man who knows how to make good bargains or finds his money increase in his coffers, thinks presently that he has a good deal of brains and is almost fit to be a statesman.

Women are at little trouble to express what they do not feel; but men are still at less to express what they do feel.

Make me chaste and To what excesses will men not go for the sake of a religion in which they believe so little and which they practice so imperfectly!

A man without characteristics is a most insipid character.

It is often easier as well as more advantageous to conform to other men's opinions than to bring them over to ours.

The opposite of what is noised about concerning men and things is often the truth. [Fr., Le contraire des bruits qui courent des affaires ou des personnes est souvent la verite.]

Man makes up his mind he will preach, and he preaches.

It is because of men that women dislike one another.

Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. [Fr., Les hommes rougissent moins de leur crimes que de leurs faiblesses et de leur vanite.]

A guilty man is punished as an example for the mob; an innocent man convicted is the business of every honest citizen.

It is a fool's privilege to laugh at an intelligent man.

The generality of men expend the early part of their lives in contributing to render the latter part miserable.

A coxcomb is the blockhead's man of merit.

It is more or less rude to scorn indiscriminately all kinds of praise; we ought to be proud of that which comes from honest men, who praise sincerely those things in us which are really commendable.

Where princes are concerned, a man who is able to do good is as dangerous and almost as criminal as a man who intends to do evil.

Nothing indicates the soundness of a man's judgment so much as knowing how to choose between two disadvantages.

Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones.

Every man whom chance alone has, by some accident, made a public character, hardly ever fails of becoming, in a short time, a ridiculous private one.

A man who never trusts himself never trusts anyone.

When he (man) ceased any longer to heed the words of the seers and prophets, science lovingly brought forth the radio.

Years ago when a man began to notice that if he stood up on the subway he was immediately replaced by two people, he figured he was getting too fat.

Real men don't do pickup lines just to sweep off every girls' feet. They do and trust their own instincts knowing what the girls' wants and needs. Vying to win their hearts.

As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him.

I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.

Nations and men are only the best when they are the gladdest, and deserve heaven when they enjoy it.

feelings of man are always pure and the brightest to the meeting time and Farewell.

I'd like to do plays, maybe a one man show.

Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language

Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters.

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

Old men grasp more at life than babies, and leave it with a much worse grace than young people. It is because all their labours having been for this life, they perceive at last their trouble lost.

A great man may be the personification and type of the epoch for which God destines him, but he is never its creator.

A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.

Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.

A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.

Men speak from knowledge, women from imagination.

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.

I committed the first crime by creating men as mortals. After that, what more could you do, you the murderers? Come on; they already had death in them: at most you simply hastened things a little.

A Soviet citizen, an official writer, once said to me: "The day when Communism (that is, well-being for everyone) reigns, man's tragedy will begin: his finitude."

It is no longer possible to escape men. Farewell to the monsters, farewell to the saints. Farewell to pride. All that is left is men.

A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.

The world would get along very well without literature. It would get along even better without man.

The plight of modern man is that he is condemmed to be free.

Words There is no good father, that's the rule. Don't lay the blame on men but on the bond of paternity, which is rotten. To beget children, nothing better; to have them, what iniquity!

Listen to me: a family man is never a real family man. An assassin is never entirely assassin. They play a role, you understand. While a dead man, he is really dead. To be or not to be, right?

Man's existence precedes his essence

As long as the writer cannot write for the two billion men who are hungry, he will be oppressed by a feeling of malaise.

We do not wish to say only that a man is responsible for his own individuality, but that he is responsible for that of all men.