Men Quotes

To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.

A man, groundly learned already, may take much profit himself in using by epitome to draw other men’s works, for his own memory sake, into short room.

It is a pity that, commonly, more care is had--yea, and that among very wise men--to find out rather a cunning man for their horse than a cunning man for their children.

Men are not rich or poor according to what they possess but to what they desire. The only rich man is he that with content enjoys a competence.

A foolish man in wealth and authority is like a weak-timbered house with a too-ponderous roof.

Men indulge those opinions and practices that favor their pretensions.

Money does all things,--for it gives and it takes away; it makes honest men and knaves, fools and philosophers; and so forward, mutatis mutandis, to the end of the chapter.

Tis not necessity, but opinion, that makes men miserable; and when we come to be fancy-sick, there's no cure.

There are braying men in the world, as well as braying asses; for what is loud and senseless talking any other than away of braying?

The lowest boor may laugh on being tickled, but a man must have intelligence to be amused by wit.

Pretences go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment.

It is one of the vexatious mortifications of a studious man to have his thoughts disordered by a tedious visit.

Humor is the offspring of man; it comes forth like Minerva, fully armed from the brain.

Men talk as if they believed in God, but they live as if they thought there was none; their vows and promises are no more than words, of course.

If a man spends enough time in a library, he may actually change his mind. I have seen it happen.

Time can be such a menace to a man. By this age do that; by that age do better.

There is nothing like a man for bringing out the animal in an animal.

An army, great in space, may offer opposition in a brief span of time. One man, brief in space, must spread his opposition across a period of many years if he is to have a chance of succeeding.

Time passed slowly, like and old man climbing a hill.

Any man would be forsworn to gain a kingdom.

I've never been a yes man.

The petit-bourgeois is a man unable to imagine the Other. If he comes face to face with him, he blinds himself, ignores and denies him, or else transforms him into himself.

The man who says what he thinks is finished, and the man who thinks what he says is an idiot.

Time is of the essence, The crowd and players Are the same age always, But the man in the stand, Is older every season.

It is infinitely safer to know that the man at the top has his doubts, as you and I have ours, yet has the courage to move ahead in spite of these doubts.

Lacking positive myths to guide him, many a sensitive contemporary man finds only the model of the machine beckoning him from every side to make himself over into its image.

Finding the center of strenghth within ourselves is in the long run best contribution we can do to our fellow man

Women don't question themselves when they enter into a story that has male characters, but men do question the validity of a female narrative.

This is the best Man United have played in Europe this season and, conversely, the opposition has been excellent.

Limiting the designation of marriage to a union 'between a man and a woman' is unconstitutional and must be stricken from the statute.

Eric Buckner is the most athletic big man I've ever coached.

Men and women who have served in harm's way experience higher rates of divorce and suicide. Many battle the debilitating effects and stigma associated with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

I am not a perfect man who has led a faultless life.

If you wrote something, you deserve to get paid and recognized for your work. No one should take a bow with another man's hat.

It's all part of taking a chance and expanding man's horizons. The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

I believe the highest aspiration of man should be individual freedom and the development of the individual.

I'm convinced, more than ever, that man finds liberation only when he binds himself to God and commits himself to his fellow man.

Every straight man I know is a feminist. They wouldn't be my friends if they weren't.

If you think all men are created equal, you haven't seen Bo Diddley in the shower.

When I first saw Jo, I said boom, that was it, because I'm a one-woman man.

Love manufactures every man into a poet while the fever lasts.

Most men are not that evolved.

Men want girls. Most men want little girls. They want them in film. They want to look at them. That's all they want. An evolved man is not going to look that way.

Heterosexual men terrified me. I found them to be dangerous. Not all of them, of course, but it took me some time to learn to be comfortable.

I'm not attracted to dangerous men. I'm attracted, apparently, to height. One ex was 6'6; the one before was 6'4, then 6'3. I like freakishly tall people.

All men are brothers and each man is free.

You may marry the man of your dreams, ladies, but fourteen years later you're married to a couch that burps.

There isn't any New Man. The New Man is the old man, only he whines more.

Here is my personal opinion about prostitution. If men knew how to do it, they wouldn't have to pay for it.

You can really learn from Donahue. I didn't know you could be a woman in a man's body. You go out and you can't parallel park.