Men Quotes

The final goal of human effort is man's self-transforma tion.

When vitality runs high, death takes men by surprise. But if they close their eyes to this possibility, what they gain in peace they lose in sensibility and significance.

It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless.

Safety razors make it hard to grow beards in America: America would be a better place if there were a few bearded, savage, terrible old men.

Man is embedded in nature.

I don't think for this generation, but for my generation and my father's generation, men had difficulty in accessing emotion and then being able to talk about it.

But sons are a different matter to a man. More a duty than an indulgence.

I feel like I swallowed a Magritte. Like on the inside, I'm made of clouds and floating eyes, green apples, and slowly rising men in bowler hats.

Agent Jones held Sinjin’s face in his hands. “I’m going to make balloon animals. People need balloon animals.” “How right you are, strange delusional man,” Sinjin said.

"Promise. Don't misunderstand me-you are quite vexing." He touches his tender jaw. "And you hit like a man. But you didn't cause his illness. That is his doing."

I feel like I'm man of the people: meeting people, respecting people and accepting people.

A man is not a financial plan.

I have a work-out regime; I am not a maniac. It sounds cliche, but stand-up comedy, doing a one-man show, helps keep me young, and yes, it is exhausting, but I don't collapse.

Modern man has yielded to the harsh, the crude, the vulgar, the profane, the immoral.

A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.

But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life.

Fiction is to grown men what play is to the child.

And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought.

This is still the strangest thing in all man's travelling, that he should carry about with him incongruous memories.

There's never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a'terward.

I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens.

We do not go to cowards for tender dealing; there is nothing so cruel as panic; the man who has least fear for his own carcase, has most time to consider others.

The greatest engineering is the engineering of men.

Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them.

Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.

If a man lives to any considerable age, it can not be denied that he laments his imprudences, but I notice he often laments his youth a deal more bitterly and with a more genuine intonation.

Marriage is a step so grave and decisive that it attracts light-headed, variable men by its very awfulness.

If a man knows he will sooner or later be robbed upon a journey, he will have a bottle of the best in every inn, and look upon all his extravagances as so much gained upon the thieves.

Strange indeed is the attraction of the forest for the minds of men.

I will catch Christ with a greased worm, And when the Prince of Darkness stalks My bloodstream to its Stygian term . . . On water the Man-Fisher walks.

A man is what he is on his knees before God, and nothing more.

...the fullest development of the highest powers of men can be achieved only in a world of peace.

Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational and spiritual beings.

I'm making fun of myself and I think I'm making fun of all men in our desperate, desperate attempt to understand the people we're with and hopefully through humor have them understand us.

I have a cartoon where the guy is pretty much, he's a regular-sized guy, but he's the size of the island. He's saying no man is an island, but I come pretty damn close.

It is a great help for a man to be in love with himself. For an actor, however, it is absolutely essential.

The stage can be defined as a place where Shakespeare murdered Hamlet and a great many Hamlets murdered Shakespeare.

There is no profit in deceit. An honest man knows revenge is not sweet.

The fight to make ends meet, keeps a man upon his feet.

The person who proclaimed me Best Dressed Man never saw me in my sport outfit.

The corrupt man is nearly always rootless, deeply aware of his rootlessness.

At the heart of the mystery of corruption lies the desire of one man to impose his will on others to the largest possible extent.

The game of power is played remorselessly by men who have not the slightest knowledge of, or interest in, the way ordinary people live, and the ordinary people are too terrified to protest.

The books of men have their day and grow obsolete. God's word is like Himself, the same yesterday, to-day, and forever.

Throughout the history of Christianity, there had been a core of belief that man was not doomed to be everlastingly corrupt.

Sometimes societies die and putrefy long before they are pronounced dead, and sometimes men die of corruption long before they have taken to their deathbeds.

My only crime was being a man and living in the world of men, and you don't have to do special penance for that. The crime and the penance, in that case, coincide perfectly. They are identical.

For he that is a good man, is three quarters of his way towards the being a good Christian, wheresoever he lives, or whatsoever he is called.

Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day, And woman's plighted faith.

A man may be cheerful and contented in celibacy, but I do not think he can ever be happy; it is an unnatural state, and the best feelings of his nature are never called into action.