Men Quotes

A good man and a wise man may at times be angry with the world, at times grieved for it; but be sure no man was ever discontented with the world who did his duty in it.

When the last Puritan has disappeared from the earth, the man of science will take his place as a killjoy, and we shall be given the same old advice but for different reasons.

A man goes to the movies. The critic must be honest enough to admit that he is that man.

The man who has received this great deliverance is no longer a convict, painfully observing all prison rules with the hope of shortening his sentence, but a child in the home of God.

Our aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man.

In my planet, fashion, I'm the only straight man.

When you are playing a detective, particularly as a woman, you either are going to embrace the fact that it's a man's world you are jumping into, or you're going to ignore it.

A man who recognizes no God is probably placing an inordinate value on himself.

Every man makes his own summer. The season has no character of its own, unless one is a farmer with a professional concern for the weather.

If a man wants to be of the greatest possible value to his fellow-creature s let him begin the long, solitary task of perfecting himself.

When a man is down on his luck he seems to consume all he can get of coffee and doughnuts.

Women tell men things that men are not very likely to find out for themselves.

I saw corpses, and grew used to their unimportant look, for a dead man without any of the panoply of death is a desperately insignificant object.

Women always think that if they tell a man not to be pompous that will shut him up, but I am an old hand at that game. I know that if a man bides his time his moment will come.

Very few [doctors] are men of science in any very serious sense; they're men of technique.

Nobody who looks as though he enjoyed life is ever called distinguished, though he is a man in a million.

Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.

No man is so dangerous as the man who cannot decide what he fears.

I thought we had lost you. I thought we'd done something worse than let you die.' His old arms were tight and strong about me. I was kind to the old man. I did not tell him they had.

The truth, I discovered, is a tree that grows as a man gains access to experience. A child sees the acorn of his daily life, but a man looks back on the oak.

My blood will only buy you that fool's regard. I will pay a high price for you to be respected by a churl. Nothing bought with blood is worth having, young man.

For men love what they cannot have, and hate what they cannot control.

And none at all has ridden at the king's side since Aerinha, goddess of honor and flame, first taught men to forge their blades. You'd think Aerinha would have had better sense.

He looked at her rather as a man looks at a problem that he would very much prefer to do without. She supposed it was a distinction of a sort to be a harassment to a king.

Legitimate revolution must be led by, made by those who have been most oppressed: black, brown, yellow, red, and white women-with men relating to that the best they can.

I don't think about what I'll get from someone else. Instead, all I care about is what I can give. And that, my friend, has made me a very happy man.

Men who like women rarely fall in love.

Some part of us still believes that men should kill.

Women and their bodies are beautiful. Men are always gonna want to follow them around.

I like watching a man boss everybody around. It's so sexy

Thirty years ago, there was definitely a huge difference between men and women, and the man wanting to feel like the protector, and not scare the wife

We as women are always watching movies and if you want to be cool you have to identify with the man in the movie.

Keith Richards is the only man who can make the Osbournes look Amish.

Truly men hate the truth; they'd liefer meet a tiger on the road.

The love of freedom has been the quality of Western man.

I think that man is conditioned to violence.

I ask for your indulgence when I march out quotations. This is the double syndrome of men who write for a living and men who are over forty. The young smoke pot - we inhale from our 'Bartlett's.'

I don't think it's man's function to write. I don't think it's a normal thing like teeth-brushing and going to the bathroom. It's a supered position on the animal.

That's all religion is -- some principle you believe in . . . man has accomplished far more miracles than the God he invented. What a tragedy it is to invent a God and then suffer to keep him King.

Carrying 200 pounds of velvet and satin around a stage for 90 minutes - that's man's work, let me tell you.

I'm gonna make love to you like fifteen men.

I am a man of contradictions, I suppose.

I'm going to sound like an old man but at my age, it's lovely doing something that you've never done before.

Time to go inward, man, I hope I have the nerve, to take inventory of the causes that I serve.

What a childhood I had. Once on my birthday my ol' man gave me a bat. The first day I played with it, it flew away.

As a black man, you run from the cops. It's different now, but back when I was coming up, you run.

It seems that not being religious is a form of risk-taking, consistent with other patterns of short-sighted behaviour in men.

[Some men are shortsighted, so] going to prison or going to hell just doesn't matter to these men.

In a lot of roles, strong women feel like they need to apologize. But men don't need to apologize for being ruthless and women somehow do?

He that will write well in any tongue must follow this counsel of Aristotle: to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do.