Men Quotes

Men are, in fact, either sustained by organization or they sustain organization.

The more underdeveloped the country, the more overdeveloped the women.

Only men of considerable vanity write books; consistently therewith, I worried lest the world were exchanging an irreplaceable author for a more easily purchased diplomat.

Clerks in downtown hotels were said to be asking guests whether they wished the room for sleeping or jumping. Two men jumped hand-in-hand from a high window in the Ritz. They had a joint account.

Men will look back in amusement at the pretence that once caused people to refer to General Dynamics and North American Aviation and AT&T as private business.

No hungry man who is also sober can be persuaded to use his last dollar for anything but food.

We shall have a race of men who are strong on telemetry and space communications but who cannot read anything but a blueprint or write anything but a computer program.

Only in very recent times has the average man been a source of savings.

As a brave man goes into fire or flood or pestilence to save a human life, so a generous mind follows after truth and love, and is not frightened from the pursuit by danger or toil or obloquy.

In the world of thought a man's rank is determined, not by his average work, but by his highest achievement.

We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man.

To learn the worth of a man's religion, do business with him.

When guests enter the room their entertainers rise to receive them; and in all meetings men should ascend into their higher selves, imparting to one another only the best they know and love.

Whom little things occupy and keep busy, are little men.

Inferior thinking and writing will make a name for a man among inferior people, who in all ages and countries, are the majority.

If we are disappointed that men give little heed to what we utter is it for their sake or our own?

Unless we consent to lack the common things which men call success, we shall hardly become heroes or saints, philosophers or poets.

The common man is impelled and controlled by interests; the superior, by ideas.

If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.

I am a happy man. I've had a good life.

No man will ever be a big executive who feels that he must, either openly or under cover, follow up every order he gives and see that it is done-nor will he ever develop a capable assistant.

I love life, man, and I embrace every minute of it so maybe I bring that on the set. I love people and I want to have a good time.

If art were to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

In Baby You're A Rich Man the point was, stop moaning, you're a rich man and we're all rich, heh heh, baby!

I'm a freakin' artist, man, not a (expletive) race horse.

Don't believe that jazz about there's nothing you can do, "turn on and drop out, man" - because you've got to turn on and drop in, or they're going to drop all over you.

It came in a vision - a man appeared on a flaming pie and said unto them, 'From this day forward you are Beatles with an A.' Thank you Mister Man, they said, thanking him.

This man [ Donald Trump] won in an electoral landslide.

If the Gospel and the Apostles may be credited, no man can be a Christian without charity, and without that faith which works, not by force, but by love.

A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.

Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.

All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man's self whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed.

He that makes use of another's fancy or necessity to sell ribbons or cloth dearer to him than to another man at the same time, cheats him.

This is to think, that men are so foolish, that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by pole-cats, or foxes; but are content, nay, think it safety, to be devoured by lions.

If all be a Dream, then he doth but dream that he makes the Question; and so it is not much matter that a waking Man should answer him.

To ask at what time a man has first any ideas is to ask when he begins to perceive; having ideas and perception being the same thing.

The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities.

It is sad, indeed, to see how man wastes his opportunities. How many could be made happy, with the blessings which are recklessly wasted or thrown away.

I was brought up and raised in Britain as a Labour man, and that quickly changed. And I find there are more working-class people in the Conservative Party than the Labour party.

All men [are] of one metal, but not in one mold.

Though women have small force to overcome men by reason; yet have they good fortune to undermine them by policy.

I think I was born at a time when an American male had so many advantages and opportunities that weren't available to men before or after, just a very brief period.

I'm many things, most of 'em bad. But a man of political principles? No.

Man with his burning soul Has but an hour of breath To build a ship of Truth In which his soul may sail- Sail on the sea of death. For death takes toll Of beauty, courage, youth, Of all but Truth.

Most roads lead men homewards, My road leads me forth

Love is a flame to burn out human wills, Love is a flame to set the will on fire, Love is a flame to cheat men into mire.

Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.

The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.

What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914!

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.