Men Quotes

And now the forces marshaled around the concept of the group have declared a war of extermination on that preciousness, the mind of man.

...no gift will ever buy back a man's love when you have removed his self-love.

He said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god.

But a man needs company.

Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby those fruits may be eaten.

Some men ease themselves like setting hens into the nest of death.

Men seem to be born with a debt they can never pay no matter how hard they try.

Man has become our greatest hazard, and our only hope.

I am a little man and this is a little town, but there must be a spark in little men that can burst into flame.

I have seen too many men go down, and I never permit myself to forget that one day, through accident or under the charge of a younger, stronger knight, I too will go down.

Show me the man who isn't interested in discussing himself.

A man who gets few letters does not open one lightly.

I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man.

This was an evil beyond thinking. The killing of a man was not so evil as the killing of a boat. For a boat does not have sons, and a boat cannot protect itself, and a wounded boat does not heal.

For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no matter what he may think about it.

It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge intime, toprotest againstchange, particularlychangefor the better.

Every man's follies are the caricature resemblances of his wisdom.

There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.

The ideal client is the very wealthy man in very great trouble.

Language. By this we build pyramids, fight battles, ordain and administer laws, shape and teach religion, and knit man to man, cultivate each other, and ourselves.

God sacrifices himself for man and puts himself where only man deserves to be.

All things to all men only fools will tell, Truth profits none but those that use it well.

Education makes a man a more intelligent shoemaker, if that be his occupation, but not by teaching him how to make shoes; it does so by the mental exercise it gives, and the habits it impresses.

I have observed that not the man who hopes when others despair, but the man who despairs when others hope, is admired by a large class of persons as a sage.

Among the works of man, which human life is rightly employed in perfecting, the first in importance surely is man himself.

A population may be too crowded, though all be amply supplied with food and raiment. It is not good for a man to be kept perforce at all times in the presence of his species.

Mechanizing man's work had changed but not lighted his toil.

Judgement is given to men that they may use it. Because it may be used erroneously, are men to be told that they ought not to use it at all?

Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments.

That a thing is peculiar; is no argument for its being blamable; since the most criminal actions are to a being like man not more unnatural than most of the virtues.

But as when an authentic watch is shown, Each man winds up and rectifies his own, So in our very judgments.

I'm an old man of 73, and I've been around a long time. If I don't know something by now, I probably never will.

A doctor is a man who writes prescriptions, till the patient either dies or is cured by nature.

The only man who really needs a tail coat is a man with a hole in his trousers.

It is necessary men should be tried and purged and purified and made perfect through suffering.

A man, as a man, could arrive at all the dignity that a man was capable of obtaining or receiving; but it needed a God to raise him to the dignity of a God.

Where did this commandment come from in relation to polygamy? It also came from God... When I see any of our people, men or women, opposing a principle of this kind... I consider them apostates.

There are more than 30 states, who either by statute or constitutional amendment, have defined marriage as being between a man and a woman.

Rooney has those things that you cannot teach players - the positions he takes up just behind the front men is a European trait.

I am very healthy. Career wise, even old men get to be in movies. So as long as I am healthy, I will continue to make movies.

I was always a character actor, basically, that sometimes looks like a leading man.

There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.

If women were humbler, men would be honester.

Hairspray is the only movie I made that's subversive, because they're doing it in every high school in America. A man's playing a woman, and two men sing a love song to each other.

No matter what your sexual preference or gender, no one likes a man who is fussy about his looks. You can spend as much time as you want looking good. But don't do it in public.

All things do help the unhappy man to fall.

Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.

To work a fell revenge a man's a fool, if not instructed in a woman's school.

For all Men would be Cowards if they durst: And Honesty's against all common Sense.

You think you got something big to say? Something momentous? Or is it what you had to memorize in order to escape the men with lightning in their eyes?